A4000T A/V module, ground off, no boot ??

[marcfrick2112]

Greetings,

Well, as my sig. suggests, I have a currently non-working A4000T. I read online tonight, that a missing or disconnected ground wire on a 4000T's A/V module could keep the machine from booting. Anyone have any info?
   I do recall the ground wire breaking off a while back, but I was so worried about cleaning contacts,
 replacing the PSU (twice) etc. that I never thought much about it....

So, if the missing ground wire could be a problem, anyone have a good pic they could send, that shows where the wire is attached to the A/V module? What would the symtoms be, if this was the 'thing' that was messing it up?

I'll try to list symptoms/specs best I can, since it's from memory...

A4KT shows back screen most of the time, sometimes on a cold boot it'll boot up OK, if I have only main HDD connected. Tried removing all cards, cleaned contacts, etc.
AT A4000T,Athena 400W PSU, CS Mk-3/128MB, SCSI CD + CDR on CS, 500Mb + 3 Gb HDD on int. SCSI... don't even remember if SYS: is OS3.1 or 3.9... couldn't get it going with either...

Any advice would be welcome....

Hope to post more useful info. later, after the Beck's beer wears off...  :drink:

[marcfrick2112]

Thanks everyone for the advice!

I pulled the 4KT's A/V module tonight, and still can't see where the ground came from, so Vlabguy1, PM sent

It would be Soooo nice if I could get this beast running again ...

Again, everyone thanks .....

[marcfrick2112]

Hey Rich. Thanks for the pics!

X-ray: Dude, OK, just trying anything I can think of to get my 4000T going....

sigh....