Question Repairing computer, no longer boots, CPU fan spins for a second then stops

[Rikoui]

Hello,

I'm adding some parts to an older PC for someone,
its an old HP pro MT 3000, it had 2gb of ram and an e5700 cpu.

I popped 8gb of ram into it and booted it to see if it was compatible with the 8gb ddr3 kit I had on hand. It booted normally, everything worked fine. I came back 3 days later with an ssd in hand, started hooking everything up and then tried to boot and it won't boot now, just a groaning noise and a cpu fan spin for half a second.

Now I started to do diagnostics, first thing I checked was the CPU, turns out, the person who serviced it before me (I was told it was serviced a week before) cleaned the thermal paste and then didn't put anymore on so my immediate thought was the CPU was burnt out.
I also attempted a power cycle with no cpu and ram but that yielded the same half spin result.

I then tested with other PSU's and no such luck, the same thing with the 3 different PSU's I tested.

I'm really hoping its just a burnt CPU as I ordered one (since e5700's are very cheap) to test but I am worried that the MOBO has burnt out.

Can anyone provide some insight on this?

 

[Gerald6049]

Can you tell the details spec ? Are you using 1x8 or 2x4 RAM ?

 

[Rikoui]

Can you tell the details spec ? Are you using 1x8 or 2x4 RAM ?

Neither its an older system so its 4x2gb

 

[Gerald6049]

Is this your systems ?
https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pro-3000-microtower-pc/4047650/document/c01926425

Have you try boot using old RAM ? Can you see the details specs of the old and new RAM ?
Hard to find out the issue without knowing the component details.

 

[Rikoui]

Is this your systems ?
https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pro-3000-microtower-pc/4047650/document/c01926425

Have you try boot using old RAM ? Can you see the details specs of the old and new RAM ?
Hard to find out the issue without knowing the component details.

It's the components from that in a different case (an australian variant)
I have tried with the original ram which was Elpida HP 10600u, 1333mhz.
The newer ram was corsair xms3, 1600mhz.

As it booted before with both I do not believe the ram is the issue (this ram has also been used in other systems with no problem)

 

[Rikoui]

Just to add to this, other things I've tested as of now;
CMOS battery, no dice with multiple different batteries incase brand was an issue
Different ram, again no dice
Different SATA cables, I thought this one was going to work as the fan spun up for longer but still nothing