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I cannot bring system to boot.

I bought a used computer with motherboard X7DVL-E and two Xeon 5150 processors and 4GB of memory. After i pluged computer on pushed button to start. It shows nothing on screen as black. And to turn the computer off, i had to hold power on button many seconds as pushed(it does not turn off with simple push on the button) The POST LED indicators show LE4 (green) is off and LE5 (yellow/orange) turn on when power is applied. Does it say something about the boot failure? How can i test motherboard to make sure if it is defect or not?

matthewsampson

Do you get any beeps?? If so, try re-seating the memory (i.e take it out and put it back in again - when the computer is OFF!).
Is the vga onboard? or a seperate card?

tilmes

ASKER

no i don't get any beeps. vga is onboard.

SysExpert

Disconnect all devies, except a single stick of RAM, VGA, and either a floppy or CD drive.

See if you can boot into the BIOS. If not then you need to check power supply, shorts on the motherboard or other bad hardware.

Boot into memtest from memtest.org via CD, or a Live Linux CD - Knoppix or Ubuntu.

Maybe they will be able to supply more detailed error messages.

I hope this helps !

SysExpert

Also check the manual, and Motherboard site for an explanatio of all the LED code.

I hope this helps !

tilmes

ASKER

I checked the power suply with another one. And disconnected all hard drives and rams except a single stick of RAM. It si still the same.

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