Dated computer Dead, 3/13/07

[Neuman]

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ended up taking the whole thing apart and found the culprate.

motherboard fried. visibly. fried.

in the process of getting an Old spare ABIT KT7 board updated enough to run the rest of the components. this thing isn't quite as much of a performer as what was originally in there...

anyone have any ideas of where i could find a O-K Athlon XP CPU compatible mobo for ~$20?

newegg has something......

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Sold my old computer to a friend, on the ~3rd bootup he claims to have smelled burnt plastic, computer turned itself off while windows was loading, and is currently completely dead.

i'd never had Any issues like this with any comptuer build, so i'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly is wrong.

with not a single thing happening when the power button is pressed, i originally assumed (and hoped) that it was the power supply that fried.

he bought a new PSU, and it's still not responsive.

the setup:
Athlon XP 2200+
ASUS A7V600-x
512mb ddr ram
2x80gig IDE HDD's
GeForce4 ti4200
(originally) antec 350watt psu


any ideas??

 

[AeroB1033]

Could have been that the PSU did die, but it also took the motherboard with it. Sometimes other parts like the CPU even get damaged when this happens.

He might be more or less out a computer :?

 

[MYTHOZ]

most likely a dead motherboard possibly because of a power supply

 

[Neuman]

lame.

any way I can confirm this?

 

[AeroB1033]

Well, if you already tried a new PSU, it seems like you already did, unless by some incredible twist of fate the new power supply was already DOA.

 

[Neuman]

psu was an OLD spare 250 watt i had off my 800 duron....

 

[Neuman]

ended up taking the whole thing apart and found the culprate.

motherboard fried. visibly. fried.

in the process of getting an Old spare ABIT KT7 board updated enough to run the rest of the components. this thing isn't quite as much of a performer as what was originally in there...

anyone have any ideas of where i could find a O-K Athlon XP CPU compatible mobo for ~$20?

newegg has something......

 

[Mondoman]

1) Goodwill
2) Craigslist
3) Maybe eBay if you're lucky.

 

[CmdPT]

Unless you have a spare motherboard laying around somewhere, you can try and see if the CPU is also fried but if u have no board around to troubleshoot it then you're out of luck.

 

[Neuman]

got it all up and running. had a asus a7v8x in the closet. lucked out on that.

thanks for the pointers,
zach

 

[alcattle]

so it was the motherboard, or which parts turned out needing replacement.

 

[Neuman]

yea it ended up being just the motherboard. was able to re-use every other component (luckily).

little z, in tacoma.