I worked my way through a pile of old posts and the troubleshooting sticky to try and solve my problem but to no avail unfortunately. I guess every case is different or maybe I’m just looking for a final answer so here’s the deal.
The computer in question is an old (4-5 years) family computer that was used daily (about 6hrs/day) but about a month ago stopped booting/posting.
At the moment I have brought it down to a breadboard system consisting of these parts:
Mobo: Asus A8M2N-LA http://h10010.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00757531&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en#N450
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 2.2GHz
PSU: 300W
RAM: 512Mb DDR2
I have also included photographs of the system in-case it helps in any way:
When powering up (shorting the two pins) there is no beep and no post, yet the CPU fan spins. One other thing I noticed was that even when I remove all the memory sticks there was still no deep which I found very strange.
Other things that I have tried in my attempt to narrow down the problem includes:
1. Using a 2nd PSU from a working computer and still there was no difference (no post or beeps)
2. I tested each memory stick by using them in the 2nd computer and every one was recognised and worked. For this reason I am assuming they aren’t the problem either.
I personally feel that this narrows it down to the motherboard or CPU and because the CPU fan spins when I power it up does that not mean the motherboard is working and that the problem is solely the CPU?.
One last important bit of information I feel i should include is that leading up to this situation I had a graphics card plugged in (Radeon HD4350) and for about a year and had played games like counter-strike source pretty well. But all these problems seemed to coincide with me trying to force the computer to play Batman Arkham Asylum which was a 3 GHz minimum requirement (much greater than my 2.2 GHz) so would this pressure have possibly fried the CPU?.
Considering this was a pretty old computer I’ll be buying a new mobo and CPU anyway but I would like to find out which components are still working so I can put them away for a rainy day (or tsunami considering how bad it is)
Thanks for any help guys.
The computer in question is an old (4-5 years) family computer that was used daily (about 6hrs/day) but about a month ago stopped booting/posting.
At the moment I have brought it down to a breadboard system consisting of these parts:
Mobo: Asus A8M2N-LA http://h10010.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00757531&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en#N450
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 2.2GHz
PSU: 300W
RAM: 512Mb DDR2
I have also included photographs of the system in-case it helps in any way:
When powering up (shorting the two pins) there is no beep and no post, yet the CPU fan spins. One other thing I noticed was that even when I remove all the memory sticks there was still no deep which I found very strange.
Other things that I have tried in my attempt to narrow down the problem includes:
1. Using a 2nd PSU from a working computer and still there was no difference (no post or beeps)
2. I tested each memory stick by using them in the 2nd computer and every one was recognised and worked. For this reason I am assuming they aren’t the problem either.
I personally feel that this narrows it down to the motherboard or CPU and because the CPU fan spins when I power it up does that not mean the motherboard is working and that the problem is solely the CPU?.
One last important bit of information I feel i should include is that leading up to this situation I had a graphics card plugged in (Radeon HD4350) and for about a year and had played games like counter-strike source pretty well. But all these problems seemed to coincide with me trying to force the computer to play Batman Arkham Asylum which was a 3 GHz minimum requirement (much greater than my 2.2 GHz) so would this pressure have possibly fried the CPU?.
Considering this was a pretty old computer I’ll be buying a new mobo and CPU anyway but I would like to find out which components are still working so I can put them away for a rainy day (or tsunami considering how bad it is)
Thanks for any help guys.