unclebunny

Thanks Kestrel, been searching for a way to fix this for a few days and yours is the first I've found that worked.

The siren beep sounds to me like a CPU temperature warning, so it may be worth making sure its properly seated, the fan's powered and the heat sink's secure. My first thought was that the memory was shorting, but if you've tried both some old and new memory sticks in the board then that's not likely. You could try taking the RAM out completely and trying to at least cause memory beeps. If you get no beeps then its something serious on the board, if you do get beeps then its something to do with the RAM. I'd say to strip the board down to the bare essentials, and use a known good power supply, processor and single RAM stick. If it still fails to even POST, just take off the components, find out which ones work, and chuck the board itself.

Never had a problem with a hard drive being transferred causing a BSOD, but we always transfer between equivalent models if there's a fault. Those USB kits work quite nicely as well. And failing anything else there's always the old freezer trick which might get you a few minutes of use, but that's a last resort.

Thank you, pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

I'm having to evaluate various different VLEs from a technical perspective, and wondered if anyone knew of any official (or unofficial) guidelines or frameworks for this. I'd rather not have to start completely from scratch if there's anything out already. If there aren't any, or anyone has any suggestions, those would be great. I am working on a set of guidelines myself but its involving a lot of revisions and edits as I work back and forth through it and is far from complete.