- Joined
- Nov 10, 2006
- Location
- Southeast Texas
My friend just called me with a computer problem.
He's running an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe with a P4 2.8 that he built a few years ago. No overclocking, never had any problems with it.
Tonight he went to turn it on. No POST. All case fans and CPU fan spin up, but he gets nothing on his screen. Not a single character. I pressed him on this several times and he assures me that he gets absolutely nothing but a black screen. His board actually has a female voice that reports errors through the case speaker (damn, why doesn't my "modern" A8N-SLI have that feature?) that gives him the following error:
"Boot failure--CPU failed TAP"
OR
"Boot failure--CPU failed TEST"
He doesn't know if it's saying TAP or TEST. Anyway, no POST, black screen, all fans are spinning, hard drive appears to be working.
Any thoughts? I was well out of the loop during the P4 era.
He's running an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe with a P4 2.8 that he built a few years ago. No overclocking, never had any problems with it.
Tonight he went to turn it on. No POST. All case fans and CPU fan spin up, but he gets nothing on his screen. Not a single character. I pressed him on this several times and he assures me that he gets absolutely nothing but a black screen. His board actually has a female voice that reports errors through the case speaker (damn, why doesn't my "modern" A8N-SLI have that feature?) that gives him the following error:
"Boot failure--CPU failed TAP"
OR
"Boot failure--CPU failed TEST"
He doesn't know if it's saying TAP or TEST. Anyway, no POST, black screen, all fans are spinning, hard drive appears to be working.
Any thoughts? I was well out of the loop during the P4 era.