A client just dropped off one of their business PCs for me to inspect after if failed to boot a few days ago -- this comes the day after we had an unexpected, early spring storm.
He tells me his monitor smells funny [the pungent electrical smell], so I figure that's toast.
I'm playing with the PC today: the power supply seems fine [no smell] and is supplying power to the board [there is a green LED on the board where the supply plugs into signifying the presence of power]. The hard drive spins up, however, I receive no video signal and do not hear the hard drive reading/writing as one should do when booting to an OS. I also noticed when I plugged in an ethernet cable that the power AND transmittal LEDs were constantly on.
I'm thinking the motherboard is shot? It seems like it's not even POSTing or relaying a video signal at all. Thoughts?
He tells me his monitor smells funny [the pungent electrical smell], so I figure that's toast.
I'm playing with the PC today: the power supply seems fine [no smell] and is supplying power to the board [there is a green LED on the board where the supply plugs into signifying the presence of power]. The hard drive spins up, however, I receive no video signal and do not hear the hard drive reading/writing as one should do when booting to an OS. I also noticed when I plugged in an ethernet cable that the power AND transmittal LEDs were constantly on.
I'm thinking the motherboard is shot? It seems like it's not even POSTing or relaying a video signal at all. Thoughts?