[Info-vax] Need imput on DS10 hardware failure

[Scott Dorsey]

tadamsmar  <tadamsmar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have a failed DS10.  I am not much of a hardware expert.
>I think there must be something wrong with the motherboard (the network por=
>ts are on the motherboard).  But someone else suggested that the power supp=
>ly might be bad.  But the power supply seems to be at least partly good bec=
>ause all the fans ran and all the disk spun up, the power light came on and=
> the tape showed a blinking light sequence at power-up, and there is at lea=
>st some power on the motherboard since the cpu fan runs.

First step: get a multimeter, check supply voltages and ripple at the
motherboard connector.   Without this you know nothing.
--scott

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