Jake Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 OFFS. I'm still trying to fix a PC that belongs to a friend of my Mrs. I've had here it for fortnight now but got so pissed off with it it's just been sat in the corner of the room for the last 10 days or so. After I changed the noisy heatsink and fan for a new one the PC wouldn't POST. I thought I had somehow killed the motherboard because it still wouldn't POST after swapping the memory, power supply , gfx card for known good ones. So I bought a new motherboard and fitted it today and the bastard thing still won't work! I've temporarily fitted the CPU from my PC and it works fine so I must've somehow killed the CPU while fitting the HS&F. God knows how. And to top it all it looks like Socket A (462 pin) AthlonXP processors are old hat now. My local supplier says they don't make them anymore! ARGHHHHHH !!!! :banghead: :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 ebay ull get a processor still mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 OFFS. I'm still trying to fix a PC that belongs to a friend of my Mrs. I've had here it for fortnight now but got so pissed off with it it's just been sat in the corner of the room for the last 10 days or so. After I changed the noisy heatsink and fan for a new one the PC wouldn't POST. I thought I had somehow killed the motherboard because it still wouldn't POST after swapping the memory, power supply , gfx card for known good ones. So I bought a new motherboard and fitted it today and the bastard thing still won't work! I've temporarily fitted the CPU from my PC and it works fine so I must've somehow killed the CPU while fitting the HS&F. God knows how. And to top it all it looks like Socket A (462 pin) AthlonXP processors are old hat now. My local supplier says they don't make them anymore! ARGHHHHHH !!!! :banghead: :banghead: Unlucky mate, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6850103693&category=44935 I might also have a spare one somewhere if you let me kno what you are looking for. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 eBay will be your new friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 £80 ! Don't you just love doing these jobs for free? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 If I have the speed you are after you can have it gratis, no promises on me having it though as I have no idea what I still have in the "box-o-bits" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 I guess any Athlon XP or Duron processor would do really. As long it's 462 pins it should work. Let me know if you can help - Thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 are you sure you just didnt bend a pin?? my AMD64 took a bit of a beating and I managed to bend all the pins, after an hour with some tweesers got it working again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Nah, the pins are definitely fine mate. It packed up working before me taking it out of the socket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gzaerojon Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 apparently it takes under a second for a cpu to heat up, and if the heatsink base is not in perfect contact it will fail. this happened to me because the heatsink was half sitting on the plastic step causing a gap between the cpu and heatsink. i was lucky though, i just cleaned and re siliconed both surfaces and made sure it sat square and i was away. dont throw the cpu out just yet, try what i did, you might be lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Sounds like if the fan did fail the CPU fried. Doesn't take long for an Athlon to go pop without proper cooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 The fan was still working, and still is, it was just a bit noisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gzaerojon Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 if the bios battery was to go flat, then maybe it would've reset the cpu settings to a higher value (overclocking). are the settings all ok in the bios? i tried overclocking once and thought i'd buggered up my chip, but it had just tripped into a safe mode and it returned to life after 15 mins. excuse my posts if they sound stupid, just throwing ideas at you that i have had problems with in the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 BIOS defaults to a lower value if different CP params are possible. With the faulty CPU on the board I can't get into the BIOS, it doesn't even kick the video on or even flash the keyboard lights. With a good CPU on the mobo the bios setting look fine. Thanks for trying though mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gzaerojon Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 No worries, i'll have a dig around in the loft, i'm sure i got a xp 2000 chip somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gzaerojon Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Its hard being this good!! i found it pm me your address Jake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Your kidding! You went up in your loft for me! Thats great! Will PM you in a mo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gzaerojon Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 lol, had to dig out some dvds anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Jake, this might help *cough* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054&q=heatsink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnK Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Have you looked at the core of the old CPU? Its very easy to crush or chip a corner off it when replacing the heatsink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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