3Play 425 Won't Turn On

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Hagbard_Celine

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Hi there. I was given a "broken" 425 and was able to take it apart and fix it by replacing the power supply. After a few months of sitting, I now can't get it to turn on at all. The USB keyboard/mouse light up when the 425 is plugged in, so at least I know there is power, but the switch does nothing. The fans don't even twitch, it just does nothing. Any ideas?
 
kanep said:
Try replacing the CMOS battery.
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Yes, that worked to get it to start booting. Now it freezes while the small Newtek animation is on the screen. I decided to restore the system partition. It went though its process, and booted up seemingly okay. I left it sitting in windows while I went to get the thumb drive with the updated version of 3Play software on it, but then when I came back, windows was frozen. (No mouse wiggle, nothing). I had to hold down the power button until it shut off.

So I am now trying to figure out what exactly I should do. Restore the partition again? Every reboot it hangs sometime during the bootup before Windows loads. Thanks!
 
Well, through more experimentation, I was able to get it to boot consistently by unmounting the second drive. That drive must be corrupted or something. Going to replace it.
 
That same thing happened to me. I replaced the drive and walla! But now my 425 won't boot up. I replaced the CMOS CR2032 battery and it still won't boot Last time i used it it was fine. All the internal lights seem to be doing their thing but nothing appears on my desktop monitor. I tried two different ones.
 
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