BCM 200 not booting - no serial access and no vga display

[databits]

Hi All

I have a BCM200 3.5 (Windows NT) - it was getting slower and slower booting - was able to watch it booting via serial port but this has now stopped - I have tried a monitor on the VGA port but there is no display - I have tried a different power supply but still nothing. Tried the hard disk in a linux PC and can see six partitions and WINNT folders etc. Lights on the front are flashing green - power is green solid - no error lights - was working up until 3 days ago. Hard does not spin when attached to BCM. Is this a board fault or disk controller on the main board - never seen inside one of these before until now - but have been reading through the forum posts to try every option before posting this.

Advice much appreciated

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

First of all, check the capacitors on the BCM Motherboard. If any are split and leaking, then it needs replacing. I'd give the thing a good clean out and unseat / reset all the connections.

Power it up with a monitor, keyboard and mouse plugged in. If you don't see any boot up messages, then it's either the board or power unit as you have already confirmed that the hard disk is OK.

All the best

Firebird Scrambler
Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK

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If it's working, then leave it alone!.

 

[databits]

Thanks for help firebird scrambler - I will get a look at the capacitors - there are a green/blue colour - can't tell which colour they should be but they all look okay at a quick inspection - I will take the board out and check them. Will keep you posted.

 

[pkellow]

Only the green & gold capacitors labelled Leylon are susceptible to leaking, and they should have all failed by now.

Just because you can see the HDD partitions on another device, it does not prove the HDD is okay (for example, there might still be some corruption). I would change the HDD for a replacement, not forgetting the Apache fix tool. Otherwise consider changing the entire BFT of course retaining the MSC.