dead box

[Gregory Nowak]

Scott, the fact that your bios isn't generating error messages could be either the board or cpu.

When you power up, does a monitor attached to the video card come alive at all? I don't necessarily mean that it displays something, does it just get activated?

If the monitor activates, then the cpu is most likely still good.
If the monitor doesn't activate, and you get no beeps from the bios, then it could be the board or cpu.

Greg
P.S. I've seen boards go before the way you describe (I.E. problems during boot progressing to no boot up at all).


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:38:12AM +0000, Scott Howell wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> Well yeah thta sounds about right on the OEM vs retail. I was using the
> Antec hurricane or whatever twister something it worked very well, but
> the chips do run damned hot and never had a thermo pad die on me, but
> well never had a processor run that fast either.
> Well how it died I can't say. I don't know as it was booting, but
> hanging at odd times. First thought was heat related, but then it would
> hang only after running for 30 seconds. I tried a boot floppy thinking
> maybe something in the kernel. No luck so now I put the new heatsink on
> and this is when I found it was still hanging and no heat issues it
> would seem. I then came bakc later and found it powers up, but no happy
> beeping noise. Still a few more thoughts, but even if the cpu was toast
> I think the bios would still generate some error messages. Got a few
> more things to try and then I'll decleare it dead, but well then its
> kind of dead yet.<grin>
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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