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MoBo or CPU dead?

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pioneercrazed

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Sup everyone...

I've had an AM2 build up and running for a few days now and have run into a problem all the sudden.

The setup will not post.

The setup turns on, the fan's are running, the hard drives and cd drives making noise. But it's not posting.

The board I'm running has 2 diagnostic LED's and neither of them are lighting up; which in the manual states a cpu/chipset error.

Now my question is whether the CPU or the Mobo is dead?; because I'm pretty sure it's one of them.

Biostar Tforce 550 Rev 1.0
x2 3600
2x1gb g.skill HZ DDR2-800
OCZ Modstream 520w
X1950XT

Right now I'm back on my old setup using the same components other than the mobo/cpu/ram.

I bought it all from Newegg, so if I can just RMA both the cpu/mobo together I'll just do that.
 
Back to basics. Take the motherboard, PSU, CPU and RAM. Connect them up on a wooden bench and power it on by shorting the power connector pins. One stick of RAM at first. You should get a "no video adapter" POST error beep (check your manual for the beep code). If this doesn't work, try the other stick. If it does work, start adding bits until you get an error. Graphics card should be next. Make sure the clear CMOS jumpers are in the right position and that the power button isn't stuck in (this will be solved by taking it out of the case).
 
If you are gonna RMA, check to see if the CPU get hot, if it does then it may be the mobo or ram.
 
Just pull out one piece at a time until you get POST errors. If you don't get any with no CPU, RAM, VGA...then the mobo's probably your problem.
 
Thanks for the tips guys...

I tried everything you said firing the mobo up on the anti static bag. This mobo has onboard power/reset switches so that made it a little easier. Anyways I was able to have nothing on the mobo other than the 24 power plug and the 4-pin power plug. The power switch I guess is the only thing that works, because it does tell the PS to turn on. But I got no POST errors with nothing plugged in. So now I'm definitely going to RMA the mobo, and maybe the cpu.

Thx again.e
 
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