Hey thanx for looking, I need help in getting a system up and running again.
The computer run fine for about 6 months, then after about 3 hours of running it suddenly gave up the ghost.
I opened it up and looked at the insides of the power supply, the PCB was charred, I renewed the PSU with a Mercury 350w PSU. Switched back on and nothing, still dead.
I purchased a new motherboard, and carefully removed all the components, placed them on cardboard on a wooden desk. I installed the new motherboard and reseated all essential components (3 times now), ensuring that the motherboard was not shorting on the case, connected up the new PSU again and switched on.
SYSTEM
533 Mhz Celeron Socket 370 : CPU fan + Heatsink
Jetway 694TAS motherboard (on board sound)
350w Mercury PSU
64 MB SIMM 100Mhz Branded memory - Replaced with new 32MB 100Mhz Branded memory
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP - (Primary display)
20 Gb HD (Working - Tested on other system) - IDE Primary Master
52x CD-rom - IDE Secondary Master (Not connected to motherboard yet)
Monitor connected.
Keyboard connected.
No other devices attatched.
When i push the power switch ON at the front, the caps-lock, scroll-lock and numpad LED's light on the keyboard.
The system now gives a display, a black screen, but does not POST, or even reach the BIOS, the PSU fan works, and there is output from the PSU because the CPU fan turns, and power LED at front lights up.
It continues like this no display and then the monitor cuts to stand-by, the fans inside still turn until I cut the power with the PSU switch at the back. There is no hard disk activity during this time.
At first I used the AUTO detect jumpers, same as above happened.
I set the FSB jumpers to 66Mhz : and the Clock jumpers to x8, same as above happened.
I set the FSB jumpers to 66Mhz : and the Clock jumpers to x2, same as above happened.
removed all components, changed memory, and stared building again.
I am aware of static etc, i used rubber gloves to install all components.
Im pretty sure its the processor thats gone, my reasoning :
If the display card was broken, it would still POST the BIOS, and BEEP me clear
If it was the memory that was broken, the BIOS again would BEEP and tell me.
And if the motherboard or PSU were broken they would not give me power LED, or allow the fans to work.
I'm in need of help, if you have any ideas I'd really much appreciate them, I have stripped this down 3 times now and it's getting pretty annoying.
Thanx very much in advance, regards, helmet.
<b>COUNTER TERRORISTS WIN </b> - Insert coin to continue.........ahhhhhhhhh
The computer run fine for about 6 months, then after about 3 hours of running it suddenly gave up the ghost.
I opened it up and looked at the insides of the power supply, the PCB was charred, I renewed the PSU with a Mercury 350w PSU. Switched back on and nothing, still dead.
I purchased a new motherboard, and carefully removed all the components, placed them on cardboard on a wooden desk. I installed the new motherboard and reseated all essential components (3 times now), ensuring that the motherboard was not shorting on the case, connected up the new PSU again and switched on.
SYSTEM
533 Mhz Celeron Socket 370 : CPU fan + Heatsink
Jetway 694TAS motherboard (on board sound)
350w Mercury PSU
64 MB SIMM 100Mhz Branded memory - Replaced with new 32MB 100Mhz Branded memory
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP - (Primary display)
20 Gb HD (Working - Tested on other system) - IDE Primary Master
52x CD-rom - IDE Secondary Master (Not connected to motherboard yet)
Monitor connected.
Keyboard connected.
No other devices attatched.
When i push the power switch ON at the front, the caps-lock, scroll-lock and numpad LED's light on the keyboard.
The system now gives a display, a black screen, but does not POST, or even reach the BIOS, the PSU fan works, and there is output from the PSU because the CPU fan turns, and power LED at front lights up.
It continues like this no display and then the monitor cuts to stand-by, the fans inside still turn until I cut the power with the PSU switch at the back. There is no hard disk activity during this time.
At first I used the AUTO detect jumpers, same as above happened.
I set the FSB jumpers to 66Mhz : and the Clock jumpers to x8, same as above happened.
I set the FSB jumpers to 66Mhz : and the Clock jumpers to x2, same as above happened.
removed all components, changed memory, and stared building again.
I am aware of static etc, i used rubber gloves to install all components.
Im pretty sure its the processor thats gone, my reasoning :
If the display card was broken, it would still POST the BIOS, and BEEP me clear
If it was the memory that was broken, the BIOS again would BEEP and tell me.
And if the motherboard or PSU were broken they would not give me power LED, or allow the fans to work.
I'm in need of help, if you have any ideas I'd really much appreciate them, I have stripped this down 3 times now and it's getting pretty annoying.
Thanx very much in advance, regards, helmet.
<b>COUNTER TERRORISTS WIN </b> - Insert coin to continue.........ahhhhhhhhh
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