My computer flaked on me a few days ago. It seems to be either cpu or motherboard although it is possible it is hard drive. I was playing an on-line first person shooter. When the map changed the comp died. I assume it was a heat issue of some sort. Either that or just a huge coincidence as I had not played any games in weeks, maybe months. Then the comp died after this session. On the other hand I used to play the same game (day of defeat-a W.W.II shooter/hl mod) on it all the time so perhaps it is merely a coincidence. Also of note it was at night and the ambient room temperature was not hot at all. The beep code is kind of a continuous pulsing beep perhaps the cpu overheating mentioned here?
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I've tried plugging it in and turning it on and off several times, letting it sit for a while and doing the same again, disconnecting both floppy and cd rom, switching video cards and changing memory, and I still get nothing. The system doesn't even post. It just runs and makes the pulsing beep when I turn it on. Since the motherboard is a bargain motherboard and presumably the weakest link I think I'll simply replace the mobo with the money that it would take to have the system bench tested.
<font color=red>The sort of "house favorite" for the amd athlon xp was an abit board, NF7-S, I think it was back when I built this system last year. Is that still the board people would recommend?</font color=red>
The cpu is the amd mobile athlon xp 2600. The hdd is a western digital 40 gig. The motherboard is an iwill k7s3. All three of these components were purchased new last spring. I had some newbie troubles getting the system set up but once I got it going it has been a rock solid system up until this point. My assumption is I have fried either the cpu or the mobo somehow. The system should boot to post without any drives attached, correct? I think I tried disconnecting the hard drive as well and still got nothing.
I did have the cpu temp set to shutdown at a certain temp but if that were what had happened I would assume it would boot back up after it cooled. I'm going to try clearing the cmos jumper and restarting. If that doesn't work I may also try removing and reinstalling the cpu with fresh arctic silver. It would be great it if were a no expense fix.:>)
<font color=green>Be well<font color=green>
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I've tried plugging it in and turning it on and off several times, letting it sit for a while and doing the same again, disconnecting both floppy and cd rom, switching video cards and changing memory, and I still get nothing. The system doesn't even post. It just runs and makes the pulsing beep when I turn it on. Since the motherboard is a bargain motherboard and presumably the weakest link I think I'll simply replace the mobo with the money that it would take to have the system bench tested.
<font color=red>The sort of "house favorite" for the amd athlon xp was an abit board, NF7-S, I think it was back when I built this system last year. Is that still the board people would recommend?</font color=red>
The cpu is the amd mobile athlon xp 2600. The hdd is a western digital 40 gig. The motherboard is an iwill k7s3. All three of these components were purchased new last spring. I had some newbie troubles getting the system set up but once I got it going it has been a rock solid system up until this point. My assumption is I have fried either the cpu or the mobo somehow. The system should boot to post without any drives attached, correct? I think I tried disconnecting the hard drive as well and still got nothing.
I did have the cpu temp set to shutdown at a certain temp but if that were what had happened I would assume it would boot back up after it cooled. I'm going to try clearing the cmos jumper and restarting. If that doesn't work I may also try removing and reinstalling the cpu with fresh arctic silver. It would be great it if were a no expense fix.:>)
<font color=green>Be well<font color=green>
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