From: "Angus Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [PCI] Still dead 8600
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:24:31 +1200
I must have fried something serious on that 8600. Got a "new"
processor card the other day & replaced the original. Very strange,
the heat sink fit on the other side of the card, and the new card
also had much fewer chips. But it did fit into the same slot, and the
heat sink fit too. But still, no go. No startup chime.
There's not much point in trying to zap the PRAM on a machine without
startup chime. Doesent boot from CD either. But it does fire up, fans
spin and HD does the startup clicks. But when it's supposed to do
more, it just sits there.
Suggestions?
Have you tried cleaning the gold tabs on the bottom of the processor card
theat goes in the slot? A good pencil eraser and a lot of elbow grease
worked on my 9600/200 in a similar situation.
If that doesn't work, take a bit of card stock, fold it in half, soak
the fold in 91% isopropyl alcohol and try running that up and down in
the slot. That should clean the pins inside the CPU socket. Don't
use a lateral motion, only up and down, as you don't want to bend any
of the pins sideways.
It could be your power supply. If you have a voltmeter check that it
is putting out good 5V and 3.3V supply. The fans and hard drives
will spin up on 12V, but without 5V and 3.3V the CPU and motherboard
won't start up.
Jeff Walther
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