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Got a problem similar to recover's, but it could have worse consequences... help!!

SaltBoy

SaltBoy

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recover's problem

Now here's my problem:

I've been switching peripherals from my older rig to my new rig, and peripherals from my oldest rig to my older rig. A -- > B --> C, you get the idea. The brand new rig works great.

HOWEVER, the older rig doesn't seem to want to work anymore. I'm afraid I might have fried my CPU, since some adjustments to the heatsink were made, but I'm not sure just yet. The older rig is an I-WILL KK266 with a 1.2 AMD athlon "C" processor. When I press the power button, all of the fans work, the hard drives and cd-rom drives spin up, but nothing comes up on the screen. No video card check, No BIOS showup, No RAM check, no windows boot up, nothing. I can open up the cd-rom drives right when the power comes on, but afterwards a lock-up occurs and I can't close them.

Like I mentioned, I'm guessing a bad CPU is the culprit, but it could be the motherboard too. Maybe the RAM? The BIOS? I don't know!

HELP!!! 😱🙁
 
I always like to start pulling out cards and ram when the rig won't POST. Do you get any beep codes? If no, pull the RAM and see if you get any. Try taking out everything except the core components of a pc. (i.e. only mobo, chip, ram, psu, video) see if you can get a POST.

Not sure if I would blame the cpu or the motherboard for it... both make funny things happen. If you have another AMD chip around maybe try it in the mobo to see if that helps. Or if you have another mobo try that one. Trial and error is the best way to find out, but that is of course subject to availability.

Sorry if I'm just wasting your time here....
 
I second the pull-out approach. Yank EVERYTHING and reseat the CPU and 1 DIMM. Fire her up and listen for beeps. If you get beeps, it's working. Next, add the video card if it isn't integrated and try it. If it posts, then the problem is either gone or lies in one of the removed components. If it still doesn't post, try swapping the DIMM. Then try moving the DIMM to another socket. Of course, it could easily be a fried CPU as you suspect. My friend's P4 system froze and began exhibiting the exact same problem. His CPU was dead (As confirmed in my system). It was retail so he has a replacement but we're hesitant to try it because we don't know if his PSU or motherboard was responsible. You may have to try it out in the other system also. I would first try the CPU in someone else's motherboard instead of risking a second CPU.

Good luck!

BTW, the CD-ROM should open/close without the IDE cable inserted. If it doesn't you've probably got a bad PSU!
 
Okay, the pull everything out approach didn't result in any beeps. This isn't working, folks... 😱
 
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