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New system / old parts issue
Axim
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Alright so basically a friends athlonxp system died, fans go power leds turn on but it doesn't post. So I narrowed it down to bad CPU/mobo/PSU. so i had an old 1800+ with mobo that i plugged into the same PSU and it powered on very briefly then wouldn't after that. I tried swapping between the two cpus and boards and no luck. So I figured it that since my spare board was old it must have died while in storage as the capacitors were a little crusty looking (though it had worked 4 months before) and picked up a new mobo. No luck at all with either CPU so finally I figured it was a bad PSU (couldn't measure the rails) so I replaced that and still both boards would not post regardless of swapping the cpus etc.
So I figured the PSU fried the boards and that was it. Three mobos later which is pretty ridiculous.
So now I have all these parts and another friends' AthlonXP died and I still have the 1800+/3000+ cpus from the old system. I'm mailing all the parts to my brother back home and he will put it together for him.
My issue is, do I order another socket A board now that I will have a new PSU/mobo but use the existing 3000+ cpu or is there a chance it was one of these cpus all along? Buying a new cpu as well cuts into my margins pretty hard so any help would be awesome.
Ideally I would have another spare athlonxp to test in my three 'dead' mobos lying around but such is not the case.
Cheers
So I figured the PSU fried the boards and that was it. Three mobos later which is pretty ridiculous.
So now I have all these parts and another friends' AthlonXP died and I still have the 1800+/3000+ cpus from the old system. I'm mailing all the parts to my brother back home and he will put it together for him.
My issue is, do I order another socket A board now that I will have a new PSU/mobo but use the existing 3000+ cpu or is there a chance it was one of these cpus all along? Buying a new cpu as well cuts into my margins pretty hard so any help would be awesome.
Ideally I would have another spare athlonxp to test in my three 'dead' mobos lying around but such is not the case.
Cheers
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