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ptwearnhardtfan

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Southeast WI
I built 2 identical computers for a couple buddies. 1 worked great, but the second rig shut off after about ten seconds when going through the initial POST. After that it would just shut itself off after about 2 seconds any time I tried to start it up. I started disconnecting all the various items, and then fire it up. It stays on after I pull the cpu, so I figure the processor is fried. I pull the processor out of the "working" rig and put it in the second one. Guess what happens, the same thing, shuts itself off after a couple seconds. I then put the "cooked" cpu in the first rig to make sure that it's the cpu that's fried. Sure enough, it won't boot up. I put the processor back in the "working" rig and try to boot up, and now this computer shuts itself off after a couple seconds. Apparently, the Mobo of the second rig also cooked the processor of the first one imho. Do I have a bad mobo that's frying chips, or a bad cpu that's frying mobo's? Does this sound confusing? It sure does to me.

MSI K7N2-L mobo
Kingston 512 PC2700
Athlon 2400+
MSI TI 4200
 
I would say that it's the MOBO frying CPU's, I've never heard of it being the other way around, while it might not be impossible that the CPU fries MOBO's, I really doubt it.

For me it has always been the MOBO that was bad (My current TUSL2-C killed a SB PCI128 and took my amp with it (at least the input is fried:mad: ) I've got problems installing my capture card and when I connect the digital out on my DVD to my DMX XFire it hangs in Win ME after a few minutes (XP and W2K seem to run fine) and I had an Asus P5A/B orso (SS7) that made the CPU run way too hot, When I took it back to the store they had to use a screwdriver to get the HS off, as I used the thermal pad that came with the HS....I always use the stock crap to see if anything is wrong, when something goes wrong I don't play with it, I take it back immediately as that might save me some time and money).
 
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