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- Apr 27, 2003
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- Kent, UK
Right this is my first post so sorry if its in the wrong thread and its also mainly for confirmation to what i think but here it goes.
I had a 1.4 thunderbird cpu in a PC chips mobo (this was my server not my power pc b4 you cry over the mobo). 256 SD ram. TNT2 graphics. Oh and a custom case, a toolbox carry case moded to carry a pc rather than tools.
I swapped the hdd closed the lid and from then on refused to turn on. You could press the power button and the fans would start up but wouldn't even goto bios or boot graphics .
first thaught graphics card, reseated it, swapped it over with a different one. no luck. ram? reseated it borrowed someone elses no luck. so we put it down to the mobo and cpu. As it was i had another motherboard coming a few days later anyway so i waited and decided to test the cpu in that. exactly the same problem, i even used the ram and graphics card from my gaming pc and put them straight back in after and they were working fine.
I've told you that so you don't need to ask 'have you tried this this and this' but would a dead CPU give these simptoms? The CPU doesn't look burnt out dead or anything, just looks the same. am i unlucky and have a second dead mobo DOA with the same problem? I'm a bit inexperianced with 'dead' hardware to tell what it is
I will admit i did the pencil trick on the cpu so i could put it in any AMD based obo at any settings and run long enuff for me to sort settings out but the chip was not over clocked at the time.
Hope you can help
I had a 1.4 thunderbird cpu in a PC chips mobo (this was my server not my power pc b4 you cry over the mobo). 256 SD ram. TNT2 graphics. Oh and a custom case, a toolbox carry case moded to carry a pc rather than tools.
I swapped the hdd closed the lid and from then on refused to turn on. You could press the power button and the fans would start up but wouldn't even goto bios or boot graphics .
first thaught graphics card, reseated it, swapped it over with a different one. no luck. ram? reseated it borrowed someone elses no luck. so we put it down to the mobo and cpu. As it was i had another motherboard coming a few days later anyway so i waited and decided to test the cpu in that. exactly the same problem, i even used the ram and graphics card from my gaming pc and put them straight back in after and they were working fine.
I've told you that so you don't need to ask 'have you tried this this and this' but would a dead CPU give these simptoms? The CPU doesn't look burnt out dead or anything, just looks the same. am i unlucky and have a second dead mobo DOA with the same problem? I'm a bit inexperianced with 'dead' hardware to tell what it is
I will admit i did the pencil trick on the cpu so i could put it in any AMD based obo at any settings and run long enuff for me to sort settings out but the chip was not over clocked at the time.
Hope you can help