I'll give it another shot this weekend, benching the motherboard
instead of mounting it, and with all peripherals removed. Thanks
again.
On Feb 24, 9:50 am, Mohammad AbuShady <coalwat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's not that probable, since all cpu's have thermal sensors and
> they auto shutdown the computer when they overheat, so i think you should
> test other things that could lead to this same problem, maybe RAMS not
> attached good enough, if the computer is dusty u could try to blow that away
> ( its weird but i faced that once, my computer didn't start up just because
> it had too much dust in it) , swap rams, and these kinds of checks.
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:36 AM, ToddP <todd.prick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I"m building a new machine and didn't initially have the CPU fan
> > firmly attached to the CPU (one of the mounting prongs wasn't fully
> > seated). When I power up, the CPU fan spins and the LED on the
> > motherboard lights up, but the machine doesn't POST. I get NOTHING on
> > the screen. I get no beeps. I'm wondering if not having the fan
> > firmly attached would be enough to fry the CPU. I know the CPU worked
> > at one time (it was a left over part from my previous rebuild). The
> > motherboard, on the other hand is new - possibly DOA. But, I'm
> > thinking that would be incredibly rare, so I'm leaning towards the
> > fried CPU.
>
> > What do you think?
>
> > I'm not sure how I can test anything to eliminate possibilities.
>
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