Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:02:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: <OT> I Think I have a dead Athlon Message-ID: <XFMail.010608130249.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.10106080639170.76882-100000@acstmp.bu.edu>
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You could remove the MB:s battery and short the contacs fom 30 secs. Then remove the short and try booting again (without battery). It has helped me sometimes. Then use Safe Defaults in the BIOS, reinsert battery and you're off? / On 08-Jun-01 Gallagher wrote: > Hey All, > > I know there are a lot of hardware guru's out there, so I hope no > one minds me asking this question. I have an Athlon 600 Slot A CPU (yes > an oldie by now :-) and a FIC SD-11 motherboard. The problem is when I > turn the machine on it does nothing. I mean nothing. No beeps, no > movement. Dead. The fans come on and that's about it. I know this isn't > much to work with, but anyone have any idea what this could be? It's not > the memory/drives, or anything else, because I've tested everything in > another machine, except the board and CPU, because I don't have another > Athlon CPU, just Intel. I know neither the board or the chip is worth > much now, but I'd like to find out which one is dead, and replace it, > because a 600Mhz machine is not shabby, by any standards, even if it is > the original slot A Athlon. However, I know the whole Slot CPU thing came > and went fast. From day one it was bad heat dissipating design. So I > wonder if that may be the problem. I really don't know. Any help is > greatly appreciated. Once again, sorry this is Off Topic, but I'm looking > for any help I can get. > > Thanks, > > ~mike > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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