dead mobo or cpu?

[jswjimmy]

my friend dropped off his computer for me to fix the other day. he just got done putting it together and could not get it to work. i disassembled the whole thing, put it back together and it still has the same problem. today i called him and he admitted that he tried starting it without a heat sink. i dont have any am2s around to test it but is it likely that the cpu and/or mobo are dead. i havnt been keeping up on things recently but i remember the athlon xps would fry, but if you did it with a p4 it would survive. right now it will power up with no post or beep codes. also the cd-rom drives attached to the pata will not open unless disconnected from the motherboard.

system consists of
athlon 64 X2 5000+ black edition
asus m2n32-sli deluxe

have disconnected all unnecessary parts, tryed 2 other psu's, tested the video card im my computer, tryed other ram and different ram configurations, and reseated everything multiply times.


--- you have to love stupid people

 

[o1die]

Only thing left is to try posting on a cardboard surface, such as a phonebook, with just one stick of memory, cpu/heatsink, and video. You can also download the asus manual for the board and check if the default bios settings include an auto shutdown for a specific temp. If it does, then chances are the problem is somewhere else. To get beep codes, the case speaker must be connected to the board.

 

[GundamF91]

This is Athlon 64 x2 5000+ Black Ed? Why oh why must he run the best AMD had to offer without heatsink fan? That's just crazy. There's high probability this CPU's fried; supposedly the high heat could fry the core within the first second. The only way to know for sure is to get a new mobo or new CPU to test. Based on the facts, there's far great probability that CPU is dead compared to motherboard problem.