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D8B is dead

Postby shadowcaster » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:56 pm

Hi All d8bers

haven't used my D8B for a year. my kid wants to learn to record so I switched it on and nothing on my screen board gives error saying computer didn't boot Seen that before when my CMOS blanked out.
tried a known good screen same blank stare.

can anyone clue me in where to start ?
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Re: D8B is dead

Postby anyhorizon » Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:05 pm

First thing I'd do is replace the battery in the cpu and reset the bios settings (if you can get that far).

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Re: D8B is dead

Postby Bruce Graham » Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:28 pm

Hey Shadowcaster, did you get it up and running?

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Re: D8B is dead

Postby MMD » Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:16 am

I have exactly the same problem. Two days ago, the console worked fine, now my screen is blank, when I turn on the PSU. I have replaced (the very old) battery. It is possible that someone did few random changes in BIOS (that cannot be remembered anymore) before it died. OK, it was me :S

I've tried to clear the CMOS by moving the blue jumper, but no luck.. Help?
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Re: D8B is dead

Postby Phil.c » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:55 am

Why do you want to clear the CMOS? Just check all the figures and change any that are wrong.

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Re: D8B is dead

Postby MMD » Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:48 pm

I cannot enter the BIOS? Monitor screen goes blank when I turn the D8B on.
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Re: D8B is dead

Postby Crash » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:09 pm

How far does it get? Do you ever see anything on the screen?
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Re: D8B is dead

Postby MMD » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:58 pm

Not a thing..I can hear the RAM check, HD start up, I get "Loading host, please wait" message on the mixer,the keyboard and mouse seem to work, but no green light with floppy drive and the monitor remains blank.
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Re: D8B is dead

Postby Crash » Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:21 pm

Have you tried to hold down the delete key through the boot up process to see if you can get to bios screen? If you get no green light on the floppy drive, it is either dead, or the bios settings are wrong. I suppose you could have a bad HD or Motherboard as well. I have had all of these failures in various d8b's before.
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Re: D8B is dead

Postby Phil.c » Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:00 am

I would start with tha basics, reseat all cards and connectors first.
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