Signs of a dying CPU:

1. No boot
2. BSOD repeatedly
3. System instability
4. System Lag.

However make sure that he has Reset the CMOS and that he is running the latest BIOS before ruling the CPU dead.

 

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Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE1701 Signs of a dying CPU: 1. No boot 2. BSOD repeatedly 3. System instability 4. System Lag. However make sure that he has Reset the CMOS and that he is running the latest BIOS before ruling the CPU dead.

The only symptom is 1-no boot

, maybe is because his board is older than a year??? and its internal selfdestruction clock is enabled......

Need more answers please!!!

 

Well does that motherboard by defualt support that CPU....You need to check this. Also make sure he is running the latest BIOS. Do you get any beeps on attempted boot-up ?

 

sounds psu related or memory related more than cpu

heat
voltage
pressure
static

Those are the only ways of damaging a cpu

 

Indeed. Have you tried another PSU in that system or tried booting up with only one memory module at a time to try and identify a bad memory module

 

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Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE1701 Well does that motherboard by defualt support that CPU....You need to check this. Also make sure he is running the latest BIOS. Do you get any beeps on attempted boot-up ?

Yes it do a beep

, also tried another PSU, and the mem.

Remember, is just when it start it, or reboot, the system is ok when running

 

Well a BEEP means its posting...Thus means its booting lol.

 

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Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE1701 Well a BEEP means its posting...Thus means its booting lol.

The beep is the only thing that do when she dont wanna boot!!!

 

Ok well for now we will have to assume that beep means there is an issue unstead. I would try booting with one RAM module at a time as RAM can cause issues like this if its gone bad or not properly installed.

 

I will give him one of my sticks to see what happens, but will be until sunday, maybe he oced too much his mem and he didnt knew

Meanwhile, any other ideas are apreciated

 

Well a harsh overclock on the RAM will cause damage yes. Well it will be mainly the PSU or memory. However at current it sounds more like a RAM issue than an unstable PSU.

 

I changed my old p4 setup because a bad 512 stick, made my board to tell me crap, well, at least was a good thing, a better system

We will work in that this weekend, thank Enterprise, watch out for some plasma torpedoes ahaha

 

Well as suggested I would remove all other hardware, leaving just one stick of memory, graphics card and 1 hard drive attached.

Reset the CMOS (take battery out for 15 minutes) then put the battery back and try and then boot.

If it then does not boot try replacing the memory module with the second one and try again.

If it then does not work I would suggest removing the motherboard and the other items mentioned above and test them outside of the case also.

If after this you still cannot get it working then you will need to swap parts until you can find the damaged one.

sorry i cant help any more than this

 

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Reset the CMOS (take battery out for 15 minutes) then put the battery back and try and then boot.

Try for 2 mins ..If not then do the above.

Lol dont worry i will. Well good luck and let us know how you get on.

 

We will do that hehehe

 

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Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE1701 Try for 2 mins ..If not then do the above. Lol dont worry i will. Well good luck and let us know how you get on.

Just giving the capacitors more than enough time to discharge themselves

 

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Originally Posted by MjrTom Just giving the capacitors more than enough time to discharge themselves

Indeed. I do agree. However if 2 mins doesnt work then move onto 15 mins. Not much point in wasting time lol..Good advice mate !

 

My friend continued to work on his dead machine, and it seems now that is the video card who is partially dead.

He said to me last night that he cant reinstall its bios, because reported an error "card not found"

he removed it and windows booted whit no video whit no problems, it seems that MSI dont like pci cards lol(my old MIS rig also didnt showed video whit pci cards).

We have a little problem to test his system, he is the only known person who has PCI-express here. Maybe are more, but we dont know them lol

, I told him, that happens when you buy any new "technology"

when comes to sale!!!

He modded his Radeon850 whit a zalman cooler system, I told him, maybe it shorted out, but have more than a year whit it.

Like I said before, maybe its internal doom clock reached ZERO hahahaha

 

Intersting perhaps try uninstalling the cards drivers with this then re-install them after re-boot.
http://www.drivercleaner.net/

 

Does anyone have a spare old PCI video card to test the system with?

 

The MSI Dbraket leds says Initializing video device error, it could be the video card gone south????

 

My frind bough another card, a x1600pro 256ddr2, he complains of being slower lol haha

His system seem to be working right for now, it seems that the old radeon went south

, the weird thing is why the memory errors??, maybe more problems are comming!!!

 

I declare this thread closed.

My friend bought a new card and he is running good, is a 1600pro, is weaker than the x850, but life is hard sometimes...

, thanks for your time!!!