Problems With an Found PC

[Padilla]

I found a pc-case on the side of the road with everything harvested out of it, except the motherboard (socket-pga370) and an intel celeron 1ghz cpu, with heatsink and fan.

I went and asked all of my friends for some hardware to build the pc, virtually for free, all of the equipment I had recieved except for the found material came from working machines.

I got everything I needed, powered it up, nothing came on the screen. I had to get a PCI videocard because the onboar VGA connector was snapped right off the board, so I thought to myself "mobo is probably is dead".

So I went to an old pc repair shop and so far Ive tried two different socket-pga370 boards , that when I connect the bare minimum hardware, (video ram and cpu), the powersupply fans wont even spin, unless I jiggle the atx connection to the board, and then the powersupply fans will spin. STILL the cpu fan wont spin. Are these boards dead too ?.

Both powersupplys I have DO work, and they are 20-pin connectors.

Does anyone know why I cant get those project to come out ? , should I pop the battery out ? , basically im looking for some ideas on what I havent tried.

As of now the repair shop guy is looking around in his collection for another pga370 board.

 

[Padilla]

Okay, since they were aquired old used motherboards, I totally forgot that I needed a powerswitch to at least get the motherboard power to turn on. So I remembered I could use a screwdriver to trip the two pins in order to start the board up.

So I got the power turned on, on the motherboard, and I didnt hear anything post.

Does this mean the cpu is dead ? if it doesnt post ?