One Dead PC

[Wag]

Been acting flakey for a while, doesn't post when turned on, have to hit RESET and seems to work.

Now all of a sudden "BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP". Dead. No RESET. No POST. Nada.

Ok, I figure it could be videocard, as it's a refurb. Replace it. Nothing. Pulled all cards, HDs. Just floppy and RAM. Nada.

Pulled both ram strips, tried each one seperately. Nada.

Tried swapping out PS. Nada.

Any ideas? I suspect either mobo or CPU (what's left?).

I have an old K7S5A (non pro), lying around. It should work with a 2500+, correct? (At least post).

So I figure if I can't get the 2500+ to post in there, then the CPU is the problem.

 

[jlr69t]

Well it looks like you have narrowed it down to the cpu or M/B. Let us know how it turns out.

Looks like the M/B supports the 2500, but you can check it ouy anyway.

 

[tiggersbowl1]

I have had the experience of burning up a cpu, and with my good time in that ordeal, figured out that it doesn't post at all. Not one single beep if the cpu is bad.

I even talked to a repair shop in town and they concurred with me on that. They said some problems with the motherboard could also cause it not to beep at all.

I would check your memory, I am thinking that when your memory isn't seated or is not good, you can get lots of beeps all at once.

A bad psu can also cause it not to post. Had a cheap psu with the little four plug adapter that powers the cpu and apparently the four plug piece was no good, because the psu would power a board without that just fine.

Hopefully this helps a little.

 

[Wag]

It only beeped like that the last time, and now it does nothing.

Unfortunately I yanked my speaker in the process of troubleshooting, so I can't hear the bios anymore. But since it's not even posting (no monitor), it doesn't matter.

We'll see. I'll swap out the mobo tommorow. RAM is good, unless they both went at once.

 

[Wag]

Motherboard. Definitely.

Running 2500+ on K7S5A mobo @ 1.11GHz. Lol.