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no post, no beeps...cpu failure?
Hi All,
I just put together an old AMD Athlon 1 Gig chip with a stick of 256DDR ram, an old WDC HDD, a new case, and a new Gigabyte GA-7VKMP mobo. After about an hour's worth of computing, (installing win2K, service packs, browsing, etc) I was setting up a Win2K/RH7.1 dualboot, when I restarted the machine. Then, nothing. After restart, no post, no beep, nothing. The cpu fan is running, the cdrom has power, the hard disk has power, the ram should be fine (because if it wasn't, I'd at least get some kind of error on the post test, right?). I do have one suspect. . . the cpu. I did not use thermal compound when seating the chip/heatsink. Does this sound like a cpu failure to you all? While snooping around the bios, I did observe cpu temps of around 48-53 degrees celsius, which I believe are all within reasonable limits, correct? thanks, Otto |
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Oh dear!!!! This definitely sounds like CPU failure. Sorry mate, but not
using thermal compound when fitting the heatsink is asking for trouble. The BIOS reading of 53C sounds a bit high to me, as this reading will not be too far from idle temps. When you put the CPU under full load it's bound to rise another 15-25C and with no thermal compound perhaps more. This could definitely have taken your CPU into the meltdown zone. However there is a small possibility that it could be another component "dragging" the system down. Unplug all unnecessary components - e.g. all IDE drives, floppy drive, all PCI cards and leave only the video card. Now see if you can power up the system. If you can - STOP - power down the system, remove the Heatsink and get some thermal grease in there fast! Once you have fitted the heatsink/fan start adding components one by one and see what one causes the fault. Sorry to be so negative about this however things really don't look good. Best of luck. David "Doug G." wrote in message .. . In article , says... Hi All, I just put together an old AMD Athlon 1 Gig chip with a stick of 256DDR ram, an old WDC HDD, a new case, and a new Gigabyte GA-7VKMP mobo. After about an hour's worth of computing, (installing win2K, service packs, browsing, etc) I was setting up a Win2K/RH7.1 dualboot, when I restarted the machine. Then, nothing. After restart, no post, no beep, nothing. The cpu fan is running, the cdrom has power, the hard disk has power, the ram should be fine (because if it wasn't, I'd at least get some kind of error on the post test, right?). I do have one suspect. . . the cpu. I did not use thermal compound when seating the chip/heatsink. Does this sound like a cpu failure to you all? While snooping around the bios, I did observe cpu temps of around 48-53 degrees celsius, which I believe are all within reasonable limits, correct? thanks, Otto It could be a dead CPU, power supply, or something else. If you didn't use thermal compound or a pad you very well could have killed the CPU, especially if you used a cheep rough heatsink. Those old Athlon's ran hot to start with. It doesn't make sense not to install the heatsink properly. Doug |
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