Posted: 1/27/2013 2:32:29 PM EDT
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Hey all, I'm at wits end with this machine. Cannot get it to post anymore.
It's an older system that I transferred the guts to a new case and then gave it to my brother. Abit NF7-S V2.0 AMD Athlon XP Barton 2.083 processor Thermaltake 480W PSU Geforce 6800GT AGP Card Corsair 2 GB of ram. I wiped all the drives and successfully installed XP on both drives. All of a sudden he started getting a message upon boot that said CPU is unworkable or has been changed. He would hit F1 and boot into windows just fine. I did get lucky a few times as was successful and getting it to post and all the setting are correct. Now it appears its DOA. I tried replacing the BIOS chip just to make sure the original was not corrupt. I tried changing memory, and even the graphics card. Power shows up all throughout the system, Including the keyboard. I built the system back in 2004....... Flawless ever since a few weeks ago. I'm looking at the option of just building him a new system. |
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Just figured I would post an update.....
I wound up buying a used Athlon XP processor off ebay, and a power supply tester off newegg. The processor arrived before the tester so I got that installed and no post. I just got the Power Supply tester and the PSU is good. Now I'm thinking the Mobo is shot. |