Ok, let me paint the scenario a bit. I'm using a store bought Emachine with an AMD XP 1800+. I'm very new to modding in any form, opened my first computer case only a couple of months ago. Up til now the hardest thing I had ever done was install a new heat sink, so nothing special.
Yesterday I decide it was time to upgrade my processor, figured out I needed a Socket A chip, go to the local computer store and buy the best chip they had for that socket, a Sentron 2800+. Take it home, follow the directions completely by taking out the old chip and heat sink, placing in the new and locking it in, adding Arctic Silver, placing the new heat sink on, and I'm done. Run the computer and it works just fine. However for some reason it doesn't seem like it was running faster. I kick myself for not doing some benchmark tests on the old chip to compare, so I run them on the new chip first. I then open the case up, go through the process again this time reinstalling the old chip, load up the computer. Again, everything works just fine, I run the benchmarks again, confirm that the new chip was indeed running faster. Happy with the result, one last time I go through the process of installing the new chip doing exactly as I had done the last two times. NOW when I start the computer, about a second after I turn it on I get a loud long beep. Lasts about a second, then stops for about 2 seconds, beeps again, etc. Nothing loads up to the monitor, nothing else happens. Everything has power, all the fans are spinning etc.
The problem is that I have no idea what would typically cause the computer to just beep and not start up, and more importantly how to go about fixing it since I'm so new to this. Can anyone help walk me through the steps of figuring out what is going on here?
Yesterday I decide it was time to upgrade my processor, figured out I needed a Socket A chip, go to the local computer store and buy the best chip they had for that socket, a Sentron 2800+. Take it home, follow the directions completely by taking out the old chip and heat sink, placing in the new and locking it in, adding Arctic Silver, placing the new heat sink on, and I'm done. Run the computer and it works just fine. However for some reason it doesn't seem like it was running faster. I kick myself for not doing some benchmark tests on the old chip to compare, so I run them on the new chip first. I then open the case up, go through the process again this time reinstalling the old chip, load up the computer. Again, everything works just fine, I run the benchmarks again, confirm that the new chip was indeed running faster. Happy with the result, one last time I go through the process of installing the new chip doing exactly as I had done the last two times. NOW when I start the computer, about a second after I turn it on I get a loud long beep. Lasts about a second, then stops for about 2 seconds, beeps again, etc. Nothing loads up to the monitor, nothing else happens. Everything has power, all the fans are spinning etc.
The problem is that I have no idea what would typically cause the computer to just beep and not start up, and more importantly how to go about fixing it since I'm so new to this. Can anyone help walk me through the steps of figuring out what is going on here?
