Troubleshooters

Post by **corpse** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:39 am

I have a friend with an Athlon, Socket A cpu. Running XP, SP2.

His machine stopped running suddenlly. The power lights stay on and the power supply fan is running.

When booting, it does not beep for post and the monitor light flashes green.

His cpu fan died, not spinning at all.

There were several capacitors on the motherboard that were blown.

We put a new motherboard in and all hooked up, but when we turn it on, no post [no beep] and the monitor light still just flashes green.

Do you guys think the CPU is shot?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:30 am

Yep. Once the fan dies, it's only a matter of minutes (sometimes seconds, even) before the CPU melts down.

Post by **corpse** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:59 pm

I wasnt sure because I had heard or read that as long as the heatsink is still attached, it would be fine. That the CPU would shut down the system before it did any damage.

And shouldnt it give some kind of beep code even if the CPU is dead? I took the RAM out and tried booting and still no beeps of any kinnd

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:12 pm

I once killed an Athlon (was assembling a PC when drunk and attached the cooler the wrong way around, don't ask me how) and it just did "bzzzip". After that, silence...

When the CPU is dead, nothing will work anymore. The beepin

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:14 pm

EDIT: time for a new mouse, the buttons block :icon33:

Post by **corpse** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:23 pm

Im a curious person. Why does the monitor blink green in this situtation?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:02 pm

You mean the LED on the monitor? Because it doesn't receive a signal from the video card. If it's the whole screen flashing green, run for cover!