My A4000 dying or dead!

[gizz72]

Hi,

Yesterday, after browsing with my A4000-D on the internet when something happened(off-line)! While I was configuring a dial-up number with MiamiDX, just as I was about to click save, Software failure for no reason!
After a few seconds I clicked the mouse, it reboots to a Yellow screen. Then it restarts after 2~3ish seconds, steady Yellow screen again and again for a minute. I turned A4000 off. Switch it on again, yellow screen again.
So I took my screw driver, open my A4000 up, checked my A3640, and reseat the board, switch on and a blank screen(black) came up and dead silence. No disk and HDD activity, no ROM splash screen. Later, I Remove every card installed including floppy. No go! Same results!

Did I just done something wrong somewhere? Did I just witness my A4000 died(In denial)! Is there any hope for it? I felt the whole world came down on me! I hope you guys can tell me what to do after! Any suggestions would be really be helpful!!

Regards,

GiZz72

[gizz72]

(gasp)...........

[gizz72]

yellow screen kinda reminds processor slot problem, but if you didn't touch your processor card lately, it's unlikely. so I'ld say it's the caps death.

@countzero
I see, I know I had an A3630 lying around somewhere... If I can find that, would that help revive it? I don't mind if it's a '030. As long it's not the mobo caps that died.. and I have no way to replace caps since I don't have the tools to do it..

GiZz72

[gizz72]

@everyone

Hi, Good news. After careful cleaning every last part. From the memory to A3640 and reseating everything in place all was fine. The only thing I overlooked from the beginning was unplugging my Keyboard. Doing so, I found the culprit! Which is kinda weird though. I switch A4000 on and She was alive!!
When I checked and clean the green plastics within the keyboard"matrix", there were some dirt that may have caused some shorting?? I'm not sure, how I could explain this but as soon as I clean everything, the A4000 is back up and now I'm writing this entry using IBrowse2.4. Thanks for the suggestions and tips.
Is it possible the keyboard may have caused this failure? Very odd..

@sim085
Yes, earlier I've cleaned and reseat the memory and A3640 sockets. No luck. Until today, I removed the rest like mouse and Keyboard.
@Tahoe
I've removed the leaking battery since I bought it 5 months ago. It's corroding the board badly.
My Mobo Revision is Rev 2 and the A3640 is Rev 3.1.

Thanks again...