Hi,
Last week my computer died on me, started with some fizzling noises from what I thought was the power supply then a garbled bios screen on boot until finally it was dead. I would power it up, the chip fan and power supply fan would spin for half a second then it was like an electrical short, the thing just died. I tried all the usual things, like removing cards one by one, removing drives, memory, bios battery, etc etc... nothing worked.
In the end I bought a new power supply, which I promptly tried out tonight. Unfortuantly it was doing exactly the same thing. This time I removed everything from the mobo including the CPU. I plugged the new power supply back in and the power fan stayed on... Confused by this I started adding items back on. Basically to cut a long story short the system works when the cpu isn't plugged in but doesn't when it is. By works, I mean the Power supply stays on and the mobo green led stays on... no bios beep codes though.. I thought there would be but nada.. hmmm.
I have an ECS K7VZA 3.1 Motherboard (KT133, Socket A), AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4Ghz + Volcano 5 cooler and fan, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM (1 DIMM). The power supply I just purchased was an AMD approved 400W dual fan model, the one I had previously was also an AMD approved model but only 350W.
My question is whether I should assume my Athlon is dead from the above syntoms. I mean, could it also be the motherboard and if so what are the odds for either one. I don't have any spare chips I can try out, or any other AMD based motherboards unfortuantly, so I can't really test either of the two suspect items. I think the chip is dead but I just wanted some opinions before going out and spending another $100
Seoras
Last week my computer died on me, started with some fizzling noises from what I thought was the power supply then a garbled bios screen on boot until finally it was dead. I would power it up, the chip fan and power supply fan would spin for half a second then it was like an electrical short, the thing just died. I tried all the usual things, like removing cards one by one, removing drives, memory, bios battery, etc etc... nothing worked.
In the end I bought a new power supply, which I promptly tried out tonight. Unfortuantly it was doing exactly the same thing. This time I removed everything from the mobo including the CPU. I plugged the new power supply back in and the power fan stayed on... Confused by this I started adding items back on. Basically to cut a long story short the system works when the cpu isn't plugged in but doesn't when it is. By works, I mean the Power supply stays on and the mobo green led stays on... no bios beep codes though.. I thought there would be but nada.. hmmm.
I have an ECS K7VZA 3.1 Motherboard (KT133, Socket A), AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4Ghz + Volcano 5 cooler and fan, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM (1 DIMM). The power supply I just purchased was an AMD approved 400W dual fan model, the one I had previously was also an AMD approved model but only 350W.
My question is whether I should assume my Athlon is dead from the above syntoms. I mean, could it also be the motherboard and if so what are the odds for either one. I don't have any spare chips I can try out, or any other AMD based motherboards unfortuantly, so I can't really test either of the two suspect items. I think the chip is dead but I just wanted some opinions before going out and spending another $100
Seoras
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