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Title: Merit Megatouch Force Radion won't stay on for more than 3 seconds
Post by: knagl on November 17, 2017, 12:08:16 AM

Anyone seen this before with a Megatouch?  I'm hoping that it's just that the power supply is dying (and not the more expensive motherboard).

I was playing my Megatouch machine last night, and after about five minute of play, the game froze mid-game.  I waited about 30 seconds, but it was frozen.  I then turned the power switch off, waited about five seconds, then turned it back on.  It then exhibited the symptoms seen in the video below -- it turns on for a few seconds, then turns off.

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Title: Re: Merit Megatouch Force Radion won't stay on for more than 3 seconds
Post by: knagl on November 26, 2017, 10:30:54 PM

Follow-up.  I tried a new power supply, and still had the same issue.  A computer geek friend took the motherboard from me and played around with it, and determined that the processor had died. 

He found some used processors from the same generation from the local computer recycling place, and has brought the motherboard back to life!  He's still tinkering with it, but it looks like I'll be back up and running shortly.