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For the love of God, help, please!

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evlanton

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Lately I've purchased an AZZA 366A-AV, an Athlon XP 1700+, 256 MB of elixir PC2100 DDR RAM, and a Radeon 8500 Retail. After putting it all together, I press the power switch to turn it on, but the CPU fan only spins for a fraction of a second and then nothing happens at all, no power or anything. I've taken the CPU out, and then the power will stay on, but of course it doesn't post. What is the problem?
 
make sure nothing is grounding on the back side of thr mother board, make sure the CMOS clear jumper in not in the clear position
 
i had the same exact problem last nite, and it turned out my memory wasn't seated right in the slot...i flipped it around and it worked...weird....

stupid me tho....hehehe
 
Yes! Actually, I fully attached the heat sink and it finally booted up (that never used to be important!). It still didn't post, but then I hooked up an old Thunderbird 800 and it booted up fine. So, either the 1700+ CPU is screwed up, or I don't have some setting right on the motherboard. In terms of the CPU being messed up, I noticed many fingerprints and much thermal compound residue on the ceramic covering on the top of the chip. Could any of that be a problem, and is there a way to wash it off without damaging the chip? I'm also going to try to fool around with the voltage now and see if I get anywhere with that.
 
Try using isopropyl alcohol to clean it off. If that doesn't work you can use acitone to clean it off BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be sure to wipe off the acitone with some more alcohol. The acitone will eat the surface of the XP if it is allowed to stay on the chip. So clean it off thoroughly and you'll be fine.
 
Are you saying you just sat your heatsink on your core without clipping it on? Don't those black pads hold the heatsink off of the core until clipped? High wattage AMD's tend to self destruct (without the proper motherboard support) without proper mounting.

How does the core look? Did any thermal compound burn or discolor? If so you may be looking at an expensive keychain.
 


<< Are you saying you just sat your heatsink on your core without clipping it on? Don't those black pads hold the heatsink off of the core until clipped? High wattage AMD's tend to self destruct (without the proper motherboard support) without proper mounting. >>



OMG, looks like this may be the problem...........
 
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