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Fried Motherboard?

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Daniel

Diamond Member
I have a MSI Pro2a, been running for a long time and has never give me as much as a hiccup, today the pc has been acting wierd though and it just shut down for no reason, wouldn't restart then later it started again and was running fine. I was just using it and it shut down again and it won't boot up at all now. Tried reseating things and clearing the cmos to no avail.
The current status is as follows:
Power goes on, fans and drives spin but nothing on the monitor and no beeps, the diagnostic lights inside are all solid red.
Hardware:
MSI Pro2a
duron 650@1000
256 megs of crucial memory
radeon 64 ddr
herc gtxp
intel nic
Any ideas or am I screwed?
thanks,
Daniel
 
I had a motherboard once. It was a good friend too...


Sounds like either the CPU or the motherboard. I would open her up and check for any shorts between the motherboard and the case. Maybe something got in there somehow. How cool (hot) has your CPU been running? You've got a pretty good overclock on that thing too...could be it just wore' out. 🙁
 
The chip has run totally cool for awhile and hard to believe but the room it is in right now is about 50something degrees, its a compuwiz chip and I've never had a problem with it before, anyway to tell if it is the cpu instead of the board without sticking another cpu in there?

And yes in my haste and annoyance I misspelled fried 😉
 
The chip has run totally cool for awhile and hard to believe but the room it is in right now is about 50something degrees, its a compuwiz chip and I've never had a problem with it before, anyway to tell if it is the cpu instead of the board without sticking another cpu in there?


Well, it's a plus that it's been running cool, but that alone cannot guarantee that an overclocked chip will not be burned out. There could be damage taking place on a small scale (tiny arrays of transistors going to x-sistor heaven) due to the higher voltage and frequency. I'm not aware of a way to test a CPU outside of a motherboard. I'm sure the manufacturer has equipment to do this, but not nerds like you and I.
 
Well I'll try to see if I can get a hold of another socket A chip to test with it, either way I guess I'm kind of screwed though, seems like replacing the mobo or the cpu.
 
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