Thanks both - much appreciated!

It's a cap problem - There's a slight discharge from a couple of the caps, and a few others are bulging. Given that both my VP6's went within a couple of weeks of each other (around the time of their first birthday - they were heavily used encoding machines), I reckon cheap power supplies must take some responsibility for failing to moderate the supply effectively. I've learnt my lesson - it's Antec all the way from here on in!

I'm not sure if I'm up to the soldering job myself. TC - I understand you do /did this commercially? - if...

Hi

I've got 2 ABIT VP6's that have failed. They failed a while back and we needed to upgrade anyway so I stuck 'em on a shelf and forgot all about them until I saw your website.

I'd like to see if I can bring them back into use as linux servers, but I'm not completely sure if the symptom I'm having indicates busted caps. The machines failed within 2 weeks of each other - the symptom is a completely blank screen on both.

I've stripped the board down of everything but the graphics card but I can't get any output to the screen at all (I've tried several...