Finally moving my side-quest with my ebay XD20 to a separate thread.
First hijack conversations over here:
https://www.film-tech.com/vbb/forum/...0084#post50084
I think I've got an iffy Motherboard at this stage. I did not have an alternate VGA monitor at home to try but I dug out a Fulsome ImagePro 3g and it sees no video signal on boot from the mobo vga port.
Have swapped CMOS battery and reset CMOS etc.
I've got some 4 wire PC buzzers on the way, to check for post codes. But probably looking to replace this ASUS PG5GC-VM mobo if no progress via error codes. If I had an alternate Mini ATX board lying around I'd try that, but will probably be an identical swap from Ebay if I can find one people aren't gouging for due to vintage.
Today I tore it down further to look for anything else weird. Upon removing the DTS PCI card found that the ribbon cable that connects it to the bottom main automation/projector basement board was also flopping around in the breeze. But that didn't change post issues.
Note the front panel LCD/buttons are a USB client device (spotted in the tear down), it boots into it's own "DTS Loader 1.1" and waits for the "host connection" to establish to the main PC. So the fact I was seeing "boot like" activity on the front panel screen was a red herring I think.
I did have it booted into a filesystem check that one time initially after identifying the compact flash module was unseated (in shipping?), but that was before I knew the power button was wired to the Mobo power switch. When I thought that fs check was taking longer than it should (8 hours), I just hard reset it by pulling power instead of holding the power for 5+ seconds, there is a very good chance I created the problem I now have when I did that.
In hindsite THAT was the moment where I should have dug out the monitor and keyboard, to check if it was still actually "working" or frozen.
Assuming I can get it posting again with access to the bios, it should be pretty easy from there. Software install is the same as the XD10, preserving the more feature-full licenses that might be on this unit will depend on if the original CF and HDD are still good.
Edit: the HDD appears good, cause I was able to mount and read from from it on a separate machine. Might have bad sectors etc but it at least functions. Have not tried that with the CF module yet, which judging by the HDD contents, only hosts the boot partition and image?
First hijack conversations over here:
https://www.film-tech.com/vbb/forum/...0084#post50084
I think I've got an iffy Motherboard at this stage. I did not have an alternate VGA monitor at home to try but I dug out a Fulsome ImagePro 3g and it sees no video signal on boot from the mobo vga port.
Have swapped CMOS battery and reset CMOS etc.
I've got some 4 wire PC buzzers on the way, to check for post codes. But probably looking to replace this ASUS PG5GC-VM mobo if no progress via error codes. If I had an alternate Mini ATX board lying around I'd try that, but will probably be an identical swap from Ebay if I can find one people aren't gouging for due to vintage.
Today I tore it down further to look for anything else weird. Upon removing the DTS PCI card found that the ribbon cable that connects it to the bottom main automation/projector basement board was also flopping around in the breeze. But that didn't change post issues.
Note the front panel LCD/buttons are a USB client device (spotted in the tear down), it boots into it's own "DTS Loader 1.1" and waits for the "host connection" to establish to the main PC. So the fact I was seeing "boot like" activity on the front panel screen was a red herring I think.
I did have it booted into a filesystem check that one time initially after identifying the compact flash module was unseated (in shipping?), but that was before I knew the power button was wired to the Mobo power switch. When I thought that fs check was taking longer than it should (8 hours), I just hard reset it by pulling power instead of holding the power for 5+ seconds, there is a very good chance I created the problem I now have when I did that.

Assuming I can get it posting again with access to the bios, it should be pretty easy from there. Software install is the same as the XD10, preserving the more feature-full licenses that might be on this unit will depend on if the original CF and HDD are still good.
Edit: the HDD appears good, cause I was able to mount and read from from it on a separate machine. Might have bad sectors etc but it at least functions. Have not tried that with the CF module yet, which judging by the HDD contents, only hosts the boot partition and image?
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