System trouble, please help

[FishDog3]

Hi, I just had a power supply die on me so I bought a new TTGI 420w PSU. I also got a new HSF, Mallinium Glaciator II.

I pulled out my old PSU, stuck in the new one, pluged in everything, put the new HSF on. I didn't change anything from when my old 360w PSU died except that.

When I power on everything powers up, HD spin up, CD spins up, all fans go on, monitor gives a little flicker, and the HSF gets really really hot, a lot hotter than my previous one almost too hot to touch around the base.

But that is all.

I have the EPoX 8K7A+ mobo which has the LED on it for debugging durring boot, it usualy goes through several codes durring POST and than changes to FF when the system starts booting. Now when I turn on the PC it just says FF and does nothing else.

If I take the CPU out of the socket it does the same thing, everything powers up but the LED just stays on FF without anything else being displayed.

The code in the manual for FF: "System Booting. This means that the BIOS already pass the control right to the operating system" God bless Korean to english traslation.

So... CPU dead? but than would it still get really hot?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

RF

[FishDog3]

One other thing, the small heatsinks below the CPU socket get extreemly hot, hotter than I reamember them getting before.

So, 1. if a CPU is dead, would it still heat up? and 2. Know anyways to see f the problem is coming from a dead CPU or if it could be the MOBO going south on me. 3. Why is everything so hot now.

http://odacm.tripod.com/8k7a.jpg

[FishDog3]

Update on the mobo resistors or whatever being really hot. It is the 1 silver heatsink below the cpu socket that is the lowest one, closest to the AGP slot. And it is really frikkin hot, like after 10 sec it is so hot it would burn me. Picture of mobo in the previous post.

[JimmyG]

I suspect that your mobo has gone bad. Those heatsinks are small because they don't have to dissipate much heat.

[LiGhTBoY]

Err...... aren't those supposed to be hot ?
They are there to cool those caps, resistors , I-don't-know-what-they-are things below them. Even on my PentiumMMX m/b they DO get HOT *tsss* ;).

[FishDog3]

well I hope it is not my mobo, because I just sprung for a new xp1800. Thant would be frustrating. But I feel that t is my CPU because what my system is doing now is the exact same thing that has always happened when I ahve powered up with my CPU out, HD spin up, all the fans fire up, LED displayes FF.

So wish me luck.

[JimmyG]

The small heatsinks you are referring to should not get so hot that it feels like they would burn you. If so, there is something wrong with the mobo.

[FishDog3]

Well, got the new CPU. Those heat sinks are still teally hot, and the system locks up during post.

Sometimes it locks up in post giving me IDE POST codes that are not in the manual without displaying anything on the monitor, other times starts the post and detects the CPU than gives me a checksum error and locks up.

I was getting memory errors in post some of the times as well, and always getting them when i had only one stick in, so I am hoping that it is the memory. That is because I already RMA'ed it to crucial (there survice and warranty are awesome BTW) and will get new moduals in a coupple days.

I doubt that I will be able to RMA the board to EPoX, so if anyone has some good recomendations for a nice ddr AMD board at a good price let me know.


RF

[HaywirE]

Take everything out except your Videocard.

I had the same problem

And if it STILL says FF, Try a PCI Videocard.

[FishDog3]

Well. I got past the FF problem by getting a new CPU, i believe that when my PSU went my old CPU went with it.

[Note one thing, my cpu came with 2 simi bent pins, i stratened them out with tweasers, could that destroy the CPU?]

Now I cant get the board to post and I am hoping that it is the memory. So I RMA'ed the memory back to crucial and should have new sticks in a day or two.

And the problem I am having is that it locks up in post, and it does not always lock up in the same place. I have gotten as far as the point where the cpu is detected and it should switch over to the OS booting, and have been stopes as soon as when the DIMM slots are checked and it locks up. But the poast codes I get on the EPoX LED are sometimes ones that are not in the manual, like 00.

So I am hoping that my mem just got fried when my PSU went and not that the board is dead. But if that is so, I will be in here asking you guys what mother board to buy, so start thinking of answers now, because EPoX is telling me to talk to the vendor and the vendor is telling me to talk to EPoX.

Makes you like retail.

RF