A7N8X Deluxe will not POST

I was asked to rebuild a system that got trashed by the "Protocol Deployment
Manager" virus. The existing system was an A7N8X Deluxe, 512MB Kingston
HyperX PC2700, 2 x 70GB Seagate SATA in RAID 0.

Since the OS was so heavily compromised even with the virus eradicated I
temporarily installed a third (80GB) HD, put a quick and dirty install of
Win2K on it and intended, once I'd installed the RAID driver, to pull off
the user's data files onto it before reformatting the striped set and
rebuilding the system properly. Just for the hell of it I also swapped the
512MB PC2700 for 2GB PC3200 I had lying around. This was fine for an hour
or two.

However, just at the point in time where I was downloading the RAID driver
from the ASUS web site on another PC this one died. No smoke, no pops, no
fuss, it just stopped. The only sign of life is the green power-on LED. I
swapped the PSU anyway to no avail. I reset the CMOS to no avail. I'm
quite baffled. If it had died while I was doing something I could
understand but it semed happy enough. If 3 HDs was too much for the yum-cha
PSU (nominal 12v 15A) then surely swapping in a brand new one (Antec
EarthPower 380, 12v 27A) that's more powerful should have sorted that but it
didn't. Unplugging devices so as to present the system with a minimal load
doesn't do squat. No beeps, no fans, no POST. What have I fried?


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: A7N8X Deluxe will not POST
    ... | I was asked to rebuild a system that got trashed by the "Protocol ... | Manager" virus. ... Perhaps disconnecting all drives (data and power cables), ...
    (alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus)
  • Re: Win XP RPC Service Failure Reboot Rant Help - the story of a ruined weekend!
    ... "Virus Alert About the Blaster Worm and Its Variants" ... | of Windows ME to XP Home Edition and install Symantec Internet Security ... | mucked up Zone Alarm so uninstall it and switch on the XP firewall. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Fixing broken XP install on XPS machine
    ... friend who's an IT tech" messed with it after an apparent virus attack. ... system boots, the pre-desktop screen displays a text message saying that ... We decided to first try a conservative strategy, doing a repair install ...
    (alt.sys.pc-clone.dell)
  • Answers to frequently asked questions - 17SEP03
    ... I have this mystery re trying to install Norton ... Internet Security 2003 on my XP Pro. ... > specific virus, please tell us what it's name is! ... > date with antivirus software and more importantly ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: Virus alert about the Win32/Conficker.B worm
    ... It started with my McAfee virus software being disabled ... point that even starting up windows xp would take over 5 minutes to ... same - I cannot install any software that is intended for finding ... The program can access FAT32 or NTFS partitions, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)