1.7G P4 off eBay, is it dead?

[SonicSnake]

I just bought a shuttle XPC SS56L from newegg, my first XPC... Anyway, here's my rig...

Shuttle SS56L
P4 1.7GHz (400MHz FSB) - 2nd hand from eBay
Corsair Twinx 3200C2PT 512MB
Seagate 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache HD
NEC N2500A 8x DVD+/-R burner

Everything else is onboard (SIS graphics & chipset, sound, LAN... etc)

I hooked everything up last night, turned it on, nothing. The light is on, the CPU fan is at full speed, but no *beep*, no screen, no sound, nothing... If something is bad, I'd expect to at least see a message on screen, perhaps I could even get into the BIOS... right? Nothing. Does this mean (the biggest possibility) the CPU is dead? I have never encountered one before so I'm not sure.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Cybercraig]

That's pretty hefty memory for a 400mhz board. The timings may be too tight to function with that MB. You'll have to refer to the first post in Motherboards and try everything there first. Most E-Bayer's do not want to sell DOA parts. Leads to bad feedback and no future sales. But, it DOES happen. Try everything else first.

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[tombance]

That CPU is based on the willamette core, are you sure the mobo in the XPC can support its voltage requirements?

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[SonicSnake]

Damn'it! You're right! I just checked Shuttle's website - "1. Intel Pentium 4/Celeron(478-pin) support Northwood processor with 400/533/800(CPU internal core bus) MHz FSB only. 2. Willamette core CPUs are not supported."

Gosh! How careless of me! I only checked the socket type, didn't realize a different core could mean incompatibility. Thanks tombance.

 

[Crashman]

Good reason to replace it. The 1.7 was a very poor performer anyway, and ran very hot for it's performance level.

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[tombance]

No Problems

As Crash said, that was a pretty bad CPU anyway, you would be much better off getting something else, even if its a 1.6A you could still probabaly overclock it to 2.4Ghz.

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