A friend of mine had me test his new AthlonXP 1400 in motherboard as his machine was not POSTing. I tested the CPU and in my machine and got no POST as well with the processor. I let him know this and then completed the rest of the story:
"That system I built (Epox KT266A, 256MB DDR, 1.4GHz AthlonXP) didn't work
from the start after putting it together. So trying to disover the
problem, I pulled the Athlon 900 out of my fiance's computer to try it
in the new board. I only had the RAM, CPU, and video installed, and it
came up on the first try. So I screwed down the board and plugged in
the drives and such, and when I tried it again, it didn't come up that
time. After repeated attempts, I couldn't get it to work past the one
time even with the Athlon 900.
Worse yet, when I put the Athlon 900 back into my fiance's
machine, it wouldn't boot either. So I've since tested that with
another machine and found that the processor is dead, and I already
ordered a replacement for that. But I'm worried that the Epox board is
possibly damaging the CPU's. Have you ever had a bad board fry a CPU?
It is possible that the XP came bad and that I damaged the Athlon 900
core moving it back and forth so neither of them would work in the end.
I just hate to try another proc. in the board to see if it is working
with the risk of ruining another one.
You have any ideas? I'm thinking that I might just have to
return both and get them to test the combination before they send the
parts back. Let me know if you have any similar experiences. Thanks
for trying it out."
So, I am assuming at this point that he did have a heatsink on at all times when testing the CPU's (though I am making sure to ask him). Other than that, does anyone have any ideas what might be going on here?
My only experience that is remotely related to this was when another friend was building a machine and his case had a short in it which ended up frying everything including giveing him a few good jolts.
Thanks
"That system I built (Epox KT266A, 256MB DDR, 1.4GHz AthlonXP) didn't work
from the start after putting it together. So trying to disover the
problem, I pulled the Athlon 900 out of my fiance's computer to try it
in the new board. I only had the RAM, CPU, and video installed, and it
came up on the first try. So I screwed down the board and plugged in
the drives and such, and when I tried it again, it didn't come up that
time. After repeated attempts, I couldn't get it to work past the one
time even with the Athlon 900.
Worse yet, when I put the Athlon 900 back into my fiance's
machine, it wouldn't boot either. So I've since tested that with
another machine and found that the processor is dead, and I already
ordered a replacement for that. But I'm worried that the Epox board is
possibly damaging the CPU's. Have you ever had a bad board fry a CPU?
It is possible that the XP came bad and that I damaged the Athlon 900
core moving it back and forth so neither of them would work in the end.
I just hate to try another proc. in the board to see if it is working
with the risk of ruining another one.
You have any ideas? I'm thinking that I might just have to
return both and get them to test the combination before they send the
parts back. Let me know if you have any similar experiences. Thanks
for trying it out."
So, I am assuming at this point that he did have a heatsink on at all times when testing the CPU's (though I am making sure to ask him). Other than that, does anyone have any ideas what might be going on here?
My only experience that is remotely related to this was when another friend was building a machine and his case had a short in it which ended up frying everything including giveing him a few good jolts.
Thanks
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