On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:19:23 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
On 22/09/2019 14:33, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
The new PS arrived. It's not that. ;-)

Stripped the thing down and cleaned everything. The Asus board I have
is known to have a problem with the chipset cooling, so removed that
and cleaned and applied new paste. Battery was at about 2v so
replaced that too.

It fired up and selected the BOIS page. But on configuring, saving
and exit, back to not firing up at all.

So looks like an MB failure?

I'd just buy a new motherboard, but this machine is configured for my
needs including a Serial port and not sure many new ones have this?

Quite a few still do, if only as a header for connection to a backplate
mounted socket (not usually supplied). Last month I bought a
motherboard as part of my eldest son's birthday present, that had one
and it is a modern one for a Ryzen processor.

Interesting. That is what this one has - Com1 being merely a socket on
the MB. So I have the adaptor unit. But finding out what MBs include
this today seems difficult (I've only really looked on the CPC site -
most of the others seem fixated on gaming machines)

Be warned also that there are two common, incompatible pinouts for those
headers. So buying a cable with a DE-9 on a plate on the other end may or
may not work.

I always make my own as required.



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