i think my cpu is fried please help

[Danadcorps]

hey guys i got a big problem. I am in college right now so i live wiht 5 other guys. To make a long story short, 2 of them got drunk one night and one of them accidentally fell on my computer, tipping it over since then it hasn't been working

btw my bro and i have very similar systems (monitor, video card, network card, memory and processor are all the same)
only differences (hard drives, motherboard, speakers, and he has a sound card)

my old motherboard (albatron kx400-8x)

heres what i did:

brought my system home (w/out monitor, keyboard, mouse, or speakers....so just the case and everything inside of it)
bought a new motherboard (asus a7n8x)
installed new motherboard and put everything on it.......didn't work
took out my hd, put my brothers hd into my system........didn't work
put my hd into my brothers system *set my hd to master* went into bios and......didn't recognize my hd
put my bros hd back into his *set his to master* with mine in his comp *set mine to slave* went into bios and ......didn't recognize my hd
took out my hd, put it back into my system
took out my vid card, took out my bros vid card, and put my vid card into my bros system....everything worked fine in his comp
put the vid cards back into the appropriate places
took out my new motherboard and put my old motherboard in ...installed everything back in

here are my conclusions:
my video card is fine
my hard drive is fried
my processor is messed up

whenever i say "didn't work" this is what i mean: put the power on and the fans move (all of them). i can open and close my cd-rw and my dvd-rw as much as i want, but i don't feel my hard drive moving at all. monitor doens't display anythign (it just says that there is no signal)....can someone please help me and/or confirm my results

btw, i didn't want to take out my bros processor and put it into mine cause i don't want to take the chance of screwing his system up too.

thansk for you help! (for those of u who do help me)

 

[OpTiX]

does you system make beeps when you turn it off?

 

[pspada]

Any part that works in your bro's system is still good, with one caveat - your hard drive may not boot your OS properly, but if the system "sees" it, it may be fine. Of course your OS may still be corrupted, but that's life. I've killed several Windows installations by overclocking too high myself, that's why I Ghost my drive to another before screwing around with the oc.

Don't worry about trying your processor in your bro's mobo, being careful to change any jumpers and/or settings if necessary! And don't forget to confirm that his mobo supports your processor. Document any changes you may have to make, so you can put it back correctly when finished! If your processor is bad, his system just won't boot, but it can't harm his mobo if the CPU is bad, it just won't work.

Lastly, check to make sure that something is not loose on the mobo, i.e. the bios chip not fully inserted since the crash. Does the video card seat properly in the slot, as a bent case can keep the card from making full contact. Could the power supply have died, try a known working one (that's up to spec for the system. 300w is the bare min.) Is the processor's heatsink/fan properly seated since the calamity? Some mobo's will not power up correctly if the CPU fan is not plugged into the header and operating properly. Indeed, is the power connector from the psu fully and properly seated? Reseat the RAM, in different sockets, and try one at a time if you have multiple chips. Perhaps even remove everything from the case and run it bare, to see if it's shorting out on the case.

Oh, and make sure you fix the carbon based unit that caused the problem.

 

[Danadcorps]

the problem wiht the harddrive is that it doesn't see it at all so thats why i think its fried. btw, what was that thing about ghosting a drive? sounds cool as hell...

will do the processor swap (btw me and my bro have the same processor so it should be fine)

for the power supply, should i just swap mine with my brothers?

and btw tried reseating the RAM didn't work...
should i try swaping my RAM with my brothers RAM to make sure that the memory isn't messed up as well??

so i'll do the power supply swap and a processor swap

hehehe good thing is that guy that broke it has to pay for everythign he damaged...so i don't know if i should hope for this stuff to be broken or not...hehehehe

 

[Danadcorps]

ok i was at school this week and i just got home so i had a chance to test stuff out.

I checked my memory in my brothers system...worked perfectly

i checked my power supply in my brothers system...also worked perfectly

i also checked my harddrive one last time (i really didn't want it to be fried! it's capacity was 120 gigs and it was almost full of stuff i liked!!! but it wasn't being recognized in my brothers system.

btw i wanted to try swapping the processors but my bro has a mammoth size heatsink on his processor and i don't know how to get it off!! (its freakin huge man)

to recap:
checked power supply
checked memory
checked videocard
and they all work perfectly

i checked my hard drive and it isn't working. so i'm gonna have the kid buy me a new 120 gig hd and an AMD Athlon XP 2700+ 333 FSB, 256K Cache Processor Retail (so it comes with heatsink and fan) for 120

 

[Justus]

You might try using a boot disk (I'm partial to Win98SE), making sure that you set the boot drive to the floppy in the bios. After you get to the A prompt, then run fdisk.exe. This is another way to see if the drive can be recognized, even where the bios does not pick it up. Be careful not to delete the partitions, unless you really want to. if you want to download a bootdisk, try www.bootdisk.com

If you are really desperate, you might try:

A: fdisk /mbr -- which redoes your boot record (which might screw your data up entirely, but it might help make your drive visible).

Finally, I'd try to use one of the cd's that come with retail harddrives (preferably for the same brand) and see what it recognizes and what maintenance and trouble shooting utilities are on the disk. They run right off the CD rom at boot, as long as you make the CD a boot drive that is selected before the HD.

Never say die (unless the roommate who did this is filthy rich).

 

[Danadcorps]

thanks alot i'll try the bootdisk stuff.

 

[superHARD]

With all I know...

If a bios won't see a hd no way in hell can a fdisk or program get the hd to work.

But like I said...with what I know.