Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Hardware query/search

On 07/03/10 21:14, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Leo wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a way to distinguish a dead motherboard from a dead
>> processor?
>>
>> Failing that does anyone have either a socket A processor or motherboard
>> they no longer want?
>
> Hi Leo,
>
> Are we discussing something that was working until recently or some
> components you've been given and told one or the other is dead?
>
> If the former, what are the symptoms that are telling you it is either
> of these components? There are a bunch of things that could be
> responsible from stopping your machine from booting, including the
> memory, the graphics card, and the power supply. How far you get when
> attempting to power up will tell you something about what is failing.
>
> With the latter I'm tempted to say don't waste too much money or time
> diagnosing the issue, as Socket As are pretty long in the tooth now.
>
> Sean
>

Yeah it was working fine until I changed the processor heat sink and
fan. Now it's broke. I've checked the usual things I know: changed psu,
changed graphics card, unplugged everything except memory, keyboard and
graphics card. Unplugged the graphics card too. Unplugged memory as well.

It doesn't get anywhere in the boot sequence. Wel, that's not entirely
true, the power light on the mobo comes on. I think it's the mobo as it
doesn't emit any beep codes, even without memory. My dad thinks it's the
processor as we were changing the heat sink. Either way, I'm pretty sure
it's one or t'other.

Yeah, they're getting a bit old now. However the system worked fine for
what was required of it, so I thought if I could get a processor/mobo
cheap it might be worthwhile.

Leo