SagaLore
Elite Member
I had recently purchased a Tyan Tiger dual Athlon MP motherboard. It was taking awhile for all my parts to get to me so it just sat in it's box. When I finally got everything and assembled it, it powered up fine - I decided I didn't want this board, and took it all apart and waited too long to return it. Well, I surprassed the proper time to RMA it, so I put everything back together and now there isn't any power. I tripled checked the panel jumpers... looked fine. Tried using the reset button in case the power button was bad. Nope. Changed power supplies. Nothing. Tried different outlet, verified that the cable was good. I put the MP processor in the other socket, moved memory around, took out all the cards. It's dead.
Is that 100% indicative that the board itself is bad? I had used thermal paste for the cooler originally... when I decided I was going to return the board and CPU, I wiped it all off but it left a residue. Is there anyway that could have hurt the CPU? Does a bad CPU keep the board from getting power at all?
Note to all: If you read articles about a Tyan Tiger (or Thunder) dual Athlon MP setup being the perfect setup... beware! It's more pain than it's worth. Special and expensive power supply. Special and expensive memory. You have to have at least Windows 2000 - only OS supported with drivers. For those of us that can't afford $2000 on a system, it's definitely a *dream* system. Especially when it breaks! Argh!
Is that 100% indicative that the board itself is bad? I had used thermal paste for the cooler originally... when I decided I was going to return the board and CPU, I wiped it all off but it left a residue. Is there anyway that could have hurt the CPU? Does a bad CPU keep the board from getting power at all?
Note to all: If you read articles about a Tyan Tiger (or Thunder) dual Athlon MP setup being the perfect setup... beware! It's more pain than it's worth. Special and expensive power supply. Special and expensive memory. You have to have at least Windows 2000 - only OS supported with drivers. For those of us that can't afford $2000 on a system, it's definitely a *dream* system. Especially when it breaks! Argh!
