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Posted by: slatfats
I'm pretty sure that I narrowed it down to the processor being defunct. But I thought I would get your opinions on the matter.
Ok...here it goes.
System Specs:
ASUS A7V133 motherboard
AMD Thunderbird 950mhz processor
256mb PC133
GeForce 4 440mx Video Card
Creative Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer Sound Card(not dolby)
Netgear LAN Card
400 Watt Power supply
The Story:
Thursday Night I was using the computer and made Bobbi a new sig and avatar :-). After I was done I went to push the power button but accidently pushed the reset button which is right below the power button. It did the reset but while it was rebooting I pushed and held the power button to turn it off completely...I've don't this countless times. The next day Bobbi calls me at work and tells me the computer isn't working. She says it won't turn on. I didn't take a look at it right away after work because I had a lot of stuff to do. I eventually looked at it around 9pm Friday night. I tested the power switch...the first step. I hooked up my 2nd computers power switch to the defunct computers motherboard. No go. It wasn't the power switch. I then hooked up the power supply from my second computer to my defunct computer. Viola! POWER! I didn't have anything plugged in at the time to any components so I didn't have any visual sign that everything was well. So...I put the power supply from my second computer in the defunct but close to being resurrected computer. I close it up and hope that a 250 Watt power supply will be able to support the 950mhz cpu and all the components. Everything is connected as it should be and I push the power button. It powers up but you can hear the fans fading in and out. Not enough juice. Nothing shows up on screen. I need a new power supply.
Yesterday I went to a local computer shop and bought a new case with a 400 Watt power supply. I put all the hardware in the new case and fire it up and the fans are blazing fast but no display on the screen and no error beeps from the motherboard. I first thought it was the motherboard, but after reading online and attempting to clear the cmos, I now think that I have a bad processor. To test this theory, I removed the heatsink and the processor. Error beeps came screaming from the case speaker. Dee Doo Dee Doo Dee Doo. I took the processor and I put it back in to the socket. I left the heatsink off. The proccessor is getting power because it overheated and the system shut down. No error beeps though. I put the heatsink back on and turned it on again. It kept running...but no display and no error beeps. The hard drive starts up but doesn't report to the motherboard with any activity(HDD LED does not light).
In addition to the trouble that I've had with the good computer....
I thought I would take my second computer out of the bulletproof tank case that it was in and put it in the old case that the good computer was in. I put it all in, connected everything and powered it up....same problem. Power was running but nothing was coming up on the screen. I thought I lived in a vortex for the next hour. Until I discovered that the reset switch was fried and was constantly activated. Causing power to the board but constantly in reset mode. So, I disconnected the switch from the motherboard and viola! It worked! Thank God! I don't live in a vortex.
So...what is your opinion before I go in search of an AMD Thuderbird 1.3mhz and below?
Any opinions are appreciated.
Posted by: redwench
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Originally Posted by slatfats
So...what is your opinion before I go in search of an AMD Thuderbird 1.3mhz and below?
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dont bother. 
as youve now invested in a case and psu that can support any normal modern system, you might as well replace the board, ram, and cpu at once. your processor is definitely dead, you may have a damaged motherboard and/or ram as well. throw in the towel at this point, its time to upgrade anyway.
its rather difficult to cook a processor with a power surge without also damaging the motherboard. although since youve now probably also cooked it thermally by booting without a heatsink, you definitely need a new processor. if you have some inordinate attachment to the current motherboard, youd have to swap out the ram and a new processor in order to verify that it is only the processor that has been damaged.
Posted by: slatfats
my budget is my only obsticle. I really didn't have the money for the case...but I had to do it anyways. And then the processor is 50 dollars more and I don't have the money for that either.
Posted by: redwench
i hear souls sell well.
Posted by: slatfats
oh well. 400mhz K6-2 with 288mb PC100 will have to do until I can afford a new system.
And when I mean new...I mean built from the ground up with all new parts. I don't like re-using old parts in a new system. A few months and I'll be good to go.
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