Actually, I think you could be right joe...
Tracking down a new mobo to text now...
Thanks
Neil Atwood
Sydney, Oz
-Original Message-
From: joeuser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Dea CPU?
Just because the board LED lights; doesn't mean the board is
functioning. I'd start with that.
Neil Atwood wrote:
No overclocking here, and cooling is good - and I agree, a dead CPU under
normal conditions is pretty rare.
The video card is the only card in the system, and I've elimiated that as
the problem.
I've attempted booting with all drives - HDD and optical - disconnected.
No change.
I don't have any appropriate RAM modules on hand, so that is a problem.
Smae with PSU. But I can see the value in eliminating those as the
problem...
Thanks
Neil A.
Unless you are overclocking, or have been running it without cooling, I
would say the CPU is the last thing I would suspect. Remove everything
except video card, CPU, one stick of RAM and see if it will POST. If it
does start adding things back, one at a time. If it won't post, swap out
the RAM with known working RAM, then the video card with any old PCI
card that you know is good. Then the power supply, then I would suspect
the motherboard, before the CPU. Bad CPUs that aren't made bad from
abuse, are extremely rare.
At 07:13 PM 6/2/2005, you wrote:
Hi List,
My main desktop machine failed to start up this morning.
System is a P4 3.2Ghz - about 15 months old, built by me.
Symptoms:
Mobo appears to power up OK. (a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP) - Power LED on board
is
lit, RAM LED is lit, IDE devices go through their normal initialisation.
All fans are spinning, heatsinks are clear and clean
But no video, no error beeps, nothing! Screens report 'no videi signal'
Swapped out video card - no change.
Reseated RAM, no change.
My curent guess is dead CPU... but is there anything else obvious I
should
be checking before I RA the CPU?
Thanks
Neil A.
Sydney Oz.
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Cheers,
joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
