Oo the other day I turned on my PC and noticed that my mouse wasent working, its wierd like that I normally reboot and its fine.
So i reboot and the BIOS said "Overclocking Failed! Press F8 to reconfigure BIOS" now this was odd since my processor has been overclocked for 2 years now with no problem so I just restarted.
This time the monitor remained blank, now I knew something was wrong so I poped open the case to take a peek, everything looked fine so I gave it a dusting and tried again.
This time I got the Overclocking failed message again
This is when i realized that the CPU fan wasent spinning, the power cable had disconnected itself somehow
My first thought was HOLY SHIT and I immediately powered off the PC via back switch and unplugged it.
I let it cool down and re-connected the fan and Powered it on
There is no beep
No POST
No BIOS
If I turn it on the only way to turn it off is by disconnecting power
everything powers up all the fans the the HD spins
but other than that nothing
I've re surfaced the CPU in silver paste
I've removed the RAM
I've removed the GPU
nothing
Is it the processor
or the mobo
or the PSU
Reset the CMOS (remove the big round battery and unplug power for a few minutes) and try again.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;32200824]Reset the CMOS (remove the big round battery and unplug power for a few minutes) and try again.[/QUOTE] jumped it no good :(
If you remove all RAM modules and try to boot the PC, does it beep?
[QUOTE=Kialtia;32212475]If you remove all RAM modules and try to boot the PC, does it beep?[/QUOTE]
nope
Sounds like the CPU.
Chances are your CPU fried itself since the fan hasn't been on for who knows how long.
[QUOTE=seano12;32229031]Sounds like the CPU.
Chances are your CPU fried itself since the fan hasn't been on for who knows how long.[/QUOTE]
I doubt it is the CPU, the CPU almost never breaks, this sounds to me like a motherboard issue, if the moterboard can't report that it has no RAM it has to be broken.
Do you have a Integrated graphics? try failing over to them.
[QUOTE=benjojo;32236385]Do you have a Integrated graphics? try failing over to them.[/QUOTE]
ive removed the graphics card. nothing
heres a picture i took a couple months ago when it was working
its an LGA 775 socket
a Pentium 4 (Dual-Core) 3.06 GHz
[IMG]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii179/aug440/0128011711.jpg[/IMG]
Do you have a Fujitsu Scaleo? Looks like it.. With it's almost impossible to remove and attatch chassi
[QUOTE=seano12;32229031]Sounds like the CPU.
Chances are your CPU fried itself since the fan hasn't been on for who knows how long.[/QUOTE]
The CPU heat sensor would have automatically shut the system down if it got too hot.
If you power the system on and look near the cpu heatsink, do you see a red light turn on a few times or nothing spins or turns on at all?
[QUOTE=jordguitar;32250503]The CPU heat sensor would have automatically shut the system down if it got too hot.
If you power the system on and look near the cpu heatsink, do you see a red light turn on a few times or nothing spins or turns on at all?[/QUOTE]
My board dosent have any red lights, but everything spins and at first glance everything seems to work like it should. The CPU statis light (the one that flickers when your doing something) flickers every once and a while. sometimes its brighter. I have enough processing power to open and close my CD drive if i hold down the reset button. Today i was able to open and close the disc drive normally.
The CPU will be hot to the touch in a matter of 60 seconds. The pins on the mobo are bent straight is 2 places (my fault) and there seems to be thermal paste on some of them and the bottom of the CPU. I think i overdid it with the Arctic Silver :/ But this was all after it stopped working.
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;32247470]Do you have a Fujitsu Scaleo? Looks like it.. With it's almost impossible to remove and attatch chassi[/QUOTE]
RAIDMAX Scorpio :)
[IMG]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii179/aug440/problem.jpg[/IMG]
is this a problem?
thats the problem what did you do to bend the pins
That is your problem yea, you can throw away your board now.
Ok I was able to bend all of the misaligned pins back into their correct positions using a credit card and a sewing needle, but there are 3 pins that are broken off
Can it still work?
Oh and the pins in top left red square arent bent
they are soaked in Arctic Silver 5
Its fucked
Solution, new mobo. Don't attempt to fix it and boot, your digging a deeper hole.
How did you do this?
I spent 500$ on a new Mobo a core i5 cpu, a new GPU, and a new CD drive since the new mobo doesn't support IDE
You just wasted all the money you spent on the motherboard. It's dead. If you got any thermal paste on the CPU bottom too and then tried to use it, you most likely fried the CPU too because Artic Silver 5 is conductive.
what... did you do
[QUOTE=Shadaez;32501731]what... did you do[/QUOTE]
First his CPU fan somehow got unplugged
Then he reapplied thermal paste, and somehow got it on the bottom of the CPU.
Then it turns out he also broke some pins on the cpu socket.
Also, Pentium 4's aren't dual cored. They simply support hyperthreading.
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;32501643]You just wasted all the money you spent on the motherboard. It's dead. If you got any thermal paste on the CPU bottom too and then tried to use it, you most likely fried the CPU too because Artic Silver 5 is conductive.[/QUOTE]
that motherboard served me well for 7 years it was time for an upgrade anyway
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