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Well after 3 good years of 24/7 running, my XPS 600 finally crapped out with a bad motherboard. I got a replacement motherboard and installed it last night with everything plugged in the exact same way as the old one. New thermal paste on the processor, etc. I can now get the BIOS info screen with it's little status bar moving, but when I hit F2 (setup) or F12 (boot menu) all I get is a blank screen with blinking cursor. Diagnostic lights 1 & 2 light up on the front indicating a bad accessory card. So I take out the 1 extra PCI card I have and leave the video card. Still no dice. I reset the CMOS via it's jumper. No Dice. I take out the CMOS battery for 15 min. Same problem. I reseat the video card, no dice. Install different video card. Same problem. Try various combinations of installing the memory sticks. Same issue. It sucks cause it has been a great performing machine up until now. I posted the issue on the dell forums, hopefully someone geekier than me can help me find an answer.
Incidentally if any of you other IT guys have any ideas, I'll try just about anything at this point. When I exhaust all my resources it's time to upgrade to a new PC.
Incidentally if any of you other IT guys have any ideas, I'll try just about anything at this point. When I exhaust all my resources it's time to upgrade to a new PC.