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Matthew 31-08-2008 13:45
Re: PC Has Died
 
The first board had a NIC fail on it, well from day one of putting it in the case that NIC never failed.

GoldenBoar 03-09-2008 02:33
Re: PC Has Died
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew (Post 34628915)
No beeps or anything, I took the memory out to see if I got any and I didn't. Could it be the motherboard? If so it's the 2nd one I've had since day one!!!
If your motherboard has a buzzer or speaker attached, then the fact that it gave no beeps means that its the board or CPU. Does the CPU smell burned?

Richy99 03-09-2008 16:35
Re: PC Has Died
 
normally no beeps and no vga relates to a dead cpu

Matthew 06-09-2008 01:33
Re: PC Has Died
 
Right, eBuyer have got back to me, the board has tested ok, the PSU works fine so the only thing could be a dead CPU, I am not missing anything here am I?

What would cause the CPU to die?

Richy99 08-09-2008 11:56
Re: PC Has Died
 
heatsink not fitted properly is the main one, i remeber killing a 1gb amd years ago as the heatsink was the wrong way around

dragon 08-09-2008 22:14
Re: PC Has Died
 
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Originally Posted by Richy99 (Post 34634025)
heatsink not fitted properly is the main one, i remeber killing a 1gb amd years ago as the heatsink was the wrong way around
Unlike the earlier ones the modern CPUS tend to halt or slowdown if that happens rather than just go up in smoke.

Dai 08-09-2008 22:57
Re: PC Has Died
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dragon (Post 34634369)
Unlike the earlier ones the modern CPUS tend to halt or slowdown if that happens rather than just go up in smoke.
I'm amazed at what some of the recent CPUs can tolerate. I had an AMD box recently with the cooler upside down and kicked up at one end. It couldn't have had more than a thin line of contact with the heat spreader and yet it didn't burn out. Incredible..

dragon 08-09-2008 23:09
Re: PC Has Died
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaiNasty (Post 34634386)
I'm amazed at what some of the recent CPUs can tolerate. I had an AMD box recently with the cooler upside down and kicked up at one end. It couldn't have had more than a thin line of contact with the heat spreader and yet it didn't burn out. Incredible..
yep.

I think even p2/p3's would't burn out, p3's would just Halt, P4's would speedstep to a stupidly slow speed but carry on going.


it was the early athlon XP's that used to go into meltdown :Yikes:

Bit like this really.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yRn8ri...eature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0sGu...eature=related

Matthew 11-09-2008 00:52
Re: PC Has Died
 
Got the board back today, plugged it all in and it works, all they did was flash the BIOS. Odd.

Can anyone recommend any utilities that I can use to monitor my PC temperature and other vital numbers?

Cheers

Dai 11-09-2008 07:46
Re: PC Has Died
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew (Post 34635567)
Got the board back today, plugged it all in and it works, all they did was flash the BIOS. Odd.

Can anyone recommend any utilities that I can use to monitor my PC temperature and other vital numbers?

Cheers
Speedfan.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

good to hear you got a result.
:)


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