I have a mediasmart 475, not used it for a while, went to flash it up and it is completely dead. No lights, no power up, no CPU fan working nada....
Reading the forums, PSU is generally the issue, I opened it up, checked the internal fuse, that was OK. Bought a new power supply, tested with green wire to earth, fan powers up. As did the old one but I didn't know about that trick !!
SO, PSU is OK. Only other option I could think of is Bios as battery may have run down due to misuse, however, changed the battery today, still the same.
No lights
No Fan turning
No signs of life.
Tried with all rives in and only one drive in - no change
Has anyone got any other common mode failures that might give this lack of power to motherboard from PSU or should I go straight to Plan B. Vent anger by using large claw hammer to beat the crap out of it and send it to landfill. (after removing the 4x500gig Barracudas first, it ain't their fault !!)
Or alternatively, any modding boffins here that could suggest some tweaking involving the case, a PSU and the backplane to maybe create something useful from the godforsaken heap of rubbish I should neve have bought in the first place??
Thanks
Biz