Trying to diagnose a hardware issue

The_White_Shadow

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Okay, so i have an older 775 board with a q6600 in it and would like to determine whether the board is the issue or the cpu itself. At first i considered the psu as well but swapped in a working psu and the issue stands.

So i guess ill try to be specific here but if i miss anything please feel free to ask some questions.

When i hook the board up to a verified power supply and try to power it on the fans run at 100% and the power switch on the front doesn't function after initial power, i have to physically shut down the psu. there is also a yellow led on the mobo itself that lights up but i think that may just be an indicator to let me know the board is still receiving power. it does not post.

I had written this off as dead before but it was my first pc and i did not know alot of what i know now then. As to the demise of the machine it was some time after i got my first real gpu, a Nvidia geforce gtx 550ti. I didn't know enough to check my power supply against the power hungry cards consumption needs (400W) and i foolishly installed it on a stock 350W psu. I know, i know, noob mistake but i was young. Anyway i'm pretty certain that ended up undervolting my rig and killing a component. But im trying to revive this thing from the dead now as the q6600 is a decent cpu considering its age and if i can get this machine running again i would very much like to try my hand at overclocking it.

Interestingly enough i ran the 550 in my new rig until just this last winter when i replaced it with a 960, so if i can get this mobo and cpu functioning I could throw the 550 back in it and have my first gaming pc running again, the nostalgia alone would be worth it to me.

but this post is getting long sooooo time to post i think. hopefully i didn't forget anything.
 
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1| Can you please pass on your full system's specs? Be sure to include your motherboard, power supply+SSD/ODD.
2| Have you followed through with this guide in troubleshooting?
3| You will need to bread board your system and ofc run your system with a reliable unit based off this tier list(along with some salt) to avoid any anomalies or issues.
4| I'm going to assume your motherboard has given up the ghost partially and the processor may be functional though that can't be ruled out until you have a spare LGA775 motherboard in the vicinity to try your Q6600 out.
5| One more thing to note, you may want to rule out your ram being faulty as well by getting a single stick of ram to power your system. Often times the...

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1| Can you please pass on your full system's specs? Be sure to include your motherboard, power supply+SSD/ODD.
2| Have you followed through with this guide in troubleshooting?
3| You will need to bread board your system and ofc run your system with a reliable unit based off this tier list(along with some salt) to avoid any anomalies or issues.
4| I'm going to assume your motherboard has given up the ghost partially and the processor may be functional though that can't be ruled out until you have a spare LGA775 motherboard in the vicinity to try your Q6600 out.
5| One more thing to note, you may want to rule out your ram being faulty as well by getting a single stick of ram to power your system. Often times the ram gets taken out with power failure issues but in essence everything(in the chassis) is sensitive to minimal power spikes.
 
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