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Offline artmanTopic starter

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Gray screen of death???
« on: December 21, 2005, 11:02:45 PM »
Looks like it's more serious than I'd hoped.  Just took all the cards out of my a2000, right down to the mobo only, removed the cdrom drive (it has the odor of burnt electical stuff in it) and tried to boot with the workbench disk.  No dice.  Disk drive doesn't start up, no colors on the screen, nothing.  Any chance that maybe the CIA's fried?  Seems I remember something about them controlling the drives, etc.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm not real good at troubleshooting problems of this type.  Best regards...Art
 

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Re: Gray screen of death???
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2005, 12:51:24 AM »
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     Thanks for helping!  Got an old multimeter here, what should I check on the PSU?  Must have some kind of juice cause' the fan works.  I don't know about and other though.  I'm definitely going to keep trying to get the old girl going again, hope I succeed.  Thanks again.  Art
 

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Re: Gray screen of death???
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2005, 02:09:54 PM »
The hard drive is powered off the scsi board and it does spin.  I removed all add-on boards and drives last night, to see if it would boot from the WB disk.  Nada, nothing, still got the gray screen.  Art