Madden Football Global VR Motherboard repair?

Steve Moerke

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Hello, I have a Madden Season one that won't boot. The VGA monitor just says No Signal. The motherboard in mine is the DFI Intel Pentium 4 DFI-PS35-BL-MAD. All the fans are running wide open and the VGA monitor says no signal. It came this way.

I put a new power supply in it and then it had a siren that went off from low to high over and over and it still wouldn't boot. I took out the battery for more than 15 seconds, waited, put it back in and turned it on. Now the siren is gone but it still won't boot. I have tried hitting delete as well as F1 on startup and it does nothing.

I forgot to mention that I also re-seated everything.

I'm sure I have a dead mother board and or a hard drive issue. Does anyone repair these motherboards or computers?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve
 
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Just a FYI hard drive will not effect booting (unless it is shorted to hell)
If you can remember what the siren was exactly that is actually a error beep code for what is wrong. Depending on the MB maker you can google Audio error codes for motherboards and try to match it to what you have. That will give you a place to start at least.

IF the MB has onboard video, and a add in card try to boot with the add in Video card removed, also try exchanging the RAM If you have others. That will eliminate those as issues. Also look for Bulged / Leaking caps especially around or near the CPU. When those fail it can cause the CPU to not get proper power.

Also if you went to look for a replacement MB look for this: DFI PS35-BL the MAD part is junk from Global VR
 
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It made a noise like a siren from high to low beeping. The code said something about the motherboard fan which was running. I would like to send this to someone for repair,
 
The siren is a CPU overheat or fan failure.

JD
 
I had one of these on a route job a few years ago where the video card just died on it. I didn't work there anymore before it was fixed, but if I recall the motherboard had its own onboard video and I was able to get the computer to POST properly, so it was definitely a bad video card.

whoever designed motherboards and placed capacitors directly around the CPU were a little silly. heat kills those. :)
 
I am aware that the siren is a CPU overheat or fan failure. What does that mean? As I said before when I turn the machine on the fan and all fans are going wide open. The fan is working on the CPU. What do I do next? I took the fan off and inspected it, put it back on and it just goes wide open all the time. Where do I go next?
 
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could be cap failure on the motherboard. those motherboards probably used Athlons, which are particularly omgwut to heat. an oft-ignored facet to PCs is that over time the heatsink compound on the CPU can break down. silver was all the rage 10-15 years ago, but I stopped using it because it cracks and when the paste doesn't have the CPU communicating to the heatsink if you will, it just runs super hot.

if it starts beeping immediately then I would take a gander at that too.

for all you know the CPU could just be burned out for whatever reason.
 
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