Hi, all. Up until today, I had a nice little comp running with an MSI KT3-Ultra ARU and an Athlon XP 1800. I opened up the case today to install some new rounded cables. After I finished plugging them in, I went to test the system and the lights turned on, fans started running just like normal .... for about 1 second and then everything shutdown. From that point on, everything would be dead unless I turned the switch on the power supply off and then on again, which would just give me the 1 second of power before everything dies.
I have a hard time believing it was the new cables. I went through the whole unplug everything, reseat everything paces, and the end result is the same as what I began with. On my last attempts, the only things I had plugged in were the cpu, ram and video card - no peripheral cards or drives at all. One key piece of information: in the one second that there is power, the diagnostic LEDs for the MSI are all red, which the manual says means a faulty or improperly seated CPU. How the heck could this happen? Did I 'twist' the board enough while pushing in the ide cables to either kill a trace or apply enough extra pressure on the cpu to damage it somehow? (I looked at the core and I can't see any obvious damage)
I'm almost certainly going to RMA the cpu (damn shame, i see that it's an agoga now), and may RMA the board now, or wait for the new cpu first. Does anyone have any insight before I go ahead and accept the loss of my main machine for a few weeks?
I have a hard time believing it was the new cables. I went through the whole unplug everything, reseat everything paces, and the end result is the same as what I began with. On my last attempts, the only things I had plugged in were the cpu, ram and video card - no peripheral cards or drives at all. One key piece of information: in the one second that there is power, the diagnostic LEDs for the MSI are all red, which the manual says means a faulty or improperly seated CPU. How the heck could this happen? Did I 'twist' the board enough while pushing in the ide cables to either kill a trace or apply enough extra pressure on the cpu to damage it somehow? (I looked at the core and I can't see any obvious damage)
I'm almost certainly going to RMA the cpu (damn shame, i see that it's an agoga now), and may RMA the board now, or wait for the new cpu first. Does anyone have any insight before I go ahead and accept the loss of my main machine for a few weeks?
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