Record deck is not powering up & wont open?

Power supply is the suspect on this one. You will have to isolate the power supply in the unit and check the voltages on the input and the output side to verify it is or is not the problem.

Fans are usually 12Volts, hard drives are 12V for the motor and 5V and/or12V for the electronics inside. It could be a bad power supply that only puts out 12V but not 5V. Also ensure that all plug are okay, including the large 20 or 24 pin main plug, and some mo-bos have an additional square 4 pin power plug.
If swapping power supplies fixes it, there you go. Otherwise it's either a wiring problem or dead mobo.

Hi Fr.David
You mention '..info on BIOS..'
Is your BIOS (or anything) displaying on the screen?
If screen is also dead, then your PSU 5V (red) section is suspect.
As the fans are fanning then 12V DC (yellow) is still OK.
To check your PSU, unplug & disconnect all power connector cables (note where they go, esp the M/Board supply).
Some PSU's have a green 'signal good' wire which to test must be grounded with a paper-clip etc to black.
This tells the Power Supply Unit to start up.
Black is common negative, Yellow 12V positive, Red 5V positive.
I'm positive.
I hope your test results are not too negative. ;)
Hope this helps.
Clive.

All the modules are connected together to communicate with each other via the PCI bus. It is possible that one of the modules is pulling the bus down. If the vehicle won't start it could be any one of the modules. It will be a process of elimination to find the faulty one by disconnecting them one at a time.

Yes this is a good list of the voltages to be expected from a newer power supply on just the main header

um what you want lol:?

This is a fault in the power supply itself, I have just repaired one of these power supplies successfully.
The fault is caused by the failure of the filter capacitors on the 12V supply rail, and if the power supply is left connected to the mains supply (In our case 240V 50Hz) without the drive connected as a load, the unloaded output voltage will exceed the voltage rating of the capacitors, causing their failure. The failed capacitors had very obvious bulges at the top, and one was beginning to leak onto the PCB.

The filter capacitors on the 12V supply rail are rated at 16V, and the cpacitors on the 5V rail are rated at 10V, and when operated without a load, the 12V rail rises to approximately 19V, and the 5V rail rises to approximately 8V. All output filter capacitors are 1000uF, and 105deg C temperature rated.

I repaired my power supply by replacing all of the filter capacitors on the DC low voltage output rails with 1000uF 25V capacitors. Be careful to only fit the 105 deg C rated caps, as they operate at elevated temperatures in an enclosed environment with no ventillation to cool the power supply.
To ensure that the repair was reliable, I also replaced the filter capacitor on the 5V rail with the same 1000uF 25V, even though that capacitor showed no immediate signs of failure.

When reassembling the power supply, care must be taken to ensure that parts like the ferrite cored transformer are thermally bonded to the aluminium heatsink with a smear of heatsink compound.
When the power supply was first powered up following repair, everything was normal, the green power LED came on as usual, the supply outputs both came up OK, and the unit was not making any buzzing sounds, completely silent. The HDD now operated as normal when once again powered from this power supply.

This was the fix for my particular LaCie power supply model ACU057A-0512, and the supply once again works normally.


Tim,
Brisbane Australia.

try this :

- replace your power supply with an AT power supply
- try to check the compatibility of your computer
-

turn the power on. to get rid of the red light you need to press the timer/rec button on the remote until it turns off. the red light means it is programed to record.

it was not necessry to replace so many parts if you go as per proper procedure.please proceed as 1 isolate horizontal output section from power supply & make power supply ok. 2 if it becomes ok check hor osc,driver&h/output section. 3 if it is ok connect power input to hor.section which was isolated. 4 check for loose contact or print. 5 put on tv .