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PC refuses to boot
Hello all,
I've been pulling my hair for 3 hours over this problem, so I thought I'd ask in here, and see if people have had a similar problem. I have an oldish (bought 08/2001) Socket A motherboard (ASUS A7V133-C). The chipset fan was starting to whine after collecting dust for 6 months (since I last cleaned it up). As I've done several times, I unscrewed the chipset fan, partly lifted the sticker in the middle, put a drop of vaseline oil on the fan's axis, and used a vacuum cleaner to make the fan spin for a while. I did the same to the CPU fan. Is that stupid? Is there a better way to treat fans when they get dirty and start whining? Now, when I try to boot the system, all the fans start to spin for a few seconds (it varies from 1 to 4), then everything shuts down (I hear strange sounds in the PSU), and the POWER LED on the front panel blinks steadily (about 1 second on, then 1 second off) as if the PC was in some sort of deep sleep mode. Any idea what this means? After several hours testing different combinations, I noticed that I could boot if I unplugged my hard disk drive (uh oh!). My HDD is an IBM Deskstar 34GXP DPTA-372050. http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/desk/ds34gxp.htm I don't understand how cleaning the fans could have damaged the HDD. NOTE: A few weeks ago, I thought the drive was experiencing the "click of death" (I thought it was a 75GXP, don't know if 34GXP were affected). I downloaded the S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic tool from Hitachi, and ran it for several hours. It found no problem with the drive. I'm hoping you guys have some suggestions for me :-) -- Regards, Grumble |
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