yaggy
Well-known member
Hi - I've had Area 51 and Max Force machines in the past and ran them without a problem, but now I have one A51/MF Duo and two Site 4 boards, none of which work.
Figured it was their hard drives, so I did the CHDMAN.exe trick and imaged myself up a few new ones and even set the jumpers to Master.
But it has not changed the situation - these boards power up to a blank screen.
They beep once (maybe that was only the Site 4 boards), as if going through the
power-on self test, and broadcast a loud hiss, like an amplifier turned up all the
way with no signal, followed by inference from the disk spinning up and running.
So I'm just wondering, does anyone know what this is symptomatic of?
Is this disk still at issue? Should I see anything on the monitor?
I'm a reasonably good tech, otherwise, but these have me stumped.
Thanks.
Figured it was their hard drives, so I did the CHDMAN.exe trick and imaged myself up a few new ones and even set the jumpers to Master.
But it has not changed the situation - these boards power up to a blank screen.
They beep once (maybe that was only the Site 4 boards), as if going through the
power-on self test, and broadcast a loud hiss, like an amplifier turned up all the
way with no signal, followed by inference from the disk spinning up and running.
So I'm just wondering, does anyone know what this is symptomatic of?
Is this disk still at issue? Should I see anything on the monitor?
I'm a reasonably good tech, otherwise, but these have me stumped.
Thanks.

