Dead CPU??

[drboggner]

I received a good build from a friend that he told me had a faulty video card. I replaced the card and found that i was still not receiving a display for the monitor. I removed the RAM from the mobo (also battery and pushed reset switch) and received a sound indicating no RAM. So if all other components are running (fans spinning, lights coming on, hard drives making sound, cd drive reading) but the monitor is not receiving a display is it a faulty CPU??

Sorry if this was not specific enough..

 

[Lmeow]

What are the specifications of your build?

 

[drboggner]

MSI P6N Diamond mobo, Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz CPU, Corsair H50 liquid cooler, 8 GB DDR2 RAM, ATI Radeon 5850, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, Antec 650 watt power supply, Toshiba 500 GB 7200 RPM main drive, Western Digital Caviar Black 160 GB second drive and a generic USB 2.0 plugged into an extra PCI slot.

 

[Emerald]

it seems that the motherboard does not support the CPU according to the MSI website

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P6N-Diamond.html#?div=CPUSupport

 

[soest009]

I have seen report from other users the E8400 is working on a P6N Diamond, see msi forums:
http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=114173.msg%msg_id%

2 things you could still test.
Go back to basics, nothing connected except necessary stuff to get a system going:
Keyboard, video, psu, cpu, memory.

If this doesn't help swop out the cpu with a friend or have the cpu tested at a local store.

 

[drboggner]

My friend was running it before I received the computer. If it was incompatible would it run the processor or just support temporarily til burn out?

 

[soest009]

If it was running before then it should run now.
Odd thing is imo that you get bios beeps without memory and none with.
I would still go back to basics and test that rig from scrap like i said before.
If you have onboard video then use that rather then a expansion card.
And try to boot (if you have multiple memory sticks) to boot off one stick then multiple one's and switch them out as well.