Help, please.

[evlanton]

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 do you think the problem is?

 

[mcveigh]

is the cpu and heatsink in properly? make sure the heat sink is on always!!

put in the cpu, ram and vid card only, no drives
it should post, lets sart from there

 

[evlanton]

Yes! I 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.