Old Athlon 64 won't heat up, PC won't power on

[Linc_oln]

Hello!

So, I recently found my old Athlon 64 PC collecting dust in my attic, and decided to power it up. To my surprise, it worked. Nostalgic boom, pretty funny that my password was inside the case, on a sticky note. I decided to screw around on it, clean it out, make it look as it did 10 years ago. A hand-me-down computer from my parents, but it was awesome. I decided to turn it off and cleaned it out some more. The bad thing is, when I turned it on, nothing would pop up. I tried testing the PSU, which is good, I reset the CMOS, unplugged everything and pressed the power button for 30 seconds, I tried everything. And then, I decided to take out the heat sink. I felt for any heat coming from it while turning it on, and nothing. No heat. I am thinking that there isn't power going to the CPU from the motherboard, but I need more help.

 

[Sedivy]

You mean it turned on the first time but after cleaning it wouldn't anymore?

 

[mdd1963]

You can't run a cpu with no heatsink to check for warmth, you risk burning it up in 1/4 second unless it has a thermal protection feature..; can't recall what year that hit, but, it might be too late now....

 

[Linc_oln]

I decided that I am going to put the processor into another motherboard with the same socket, should be easy, cause I have plenty of old computers that have it. I will tell everyone the results when I'm done.

 

[Linc_oln]

I have officially concluded that it is the motherboard that is faulty. I put the processor into another motherboard, with a heat sink, and it worked perfectly. Thanks everyone for responding.

 

[mdd1963]

Glad the cpu was fine, sorry for the mainbaord!