Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 11:51:33 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Gallagher" <mgllghr@bu.edu> Cc: <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: <OT> I Think I have a dead Athlon Message-ID: <001301c0f115$33e49700$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.10106090738120.177252-100000@acstmp.bu.edu>
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I thik you said that you checked the power supply - at this point your best option is finding another working system and swapping CPU's with it to see if the CPU is fried. If it was my system I'd gamble that the Athlon CPU is fried and the motherboard is still running, because my prior experience with stone-dead systems like that is that it is a CPU problem, usually if the CPU is still good but the motherboard is fried, the system will at least do POST and give you some beep codes. I'd look for a used CPU on Ebay. But, carefully consider your options, you can quite quickly end up with more junk hardware in the basement that you don't know if it works or not. Good luck! Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Gallagher [mailto:mgllghr@bu.edu] >Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:43 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: evilfry@sg.freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: <OT> I Think I have a dead Athlon > > > > >On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >Hi there, >> > >> > If i were you, i will bring it back to the vendor :) >> > >> >Besides please do not do any overclocking >> >> I'll second this. Make absolutely, positively sure that if there are any >> CPU >> switches on the motherboard that they are set properly. >> > Yeah, that's not really an option. I've had the board for over a year. >Warranties, and guarantees, and the like have all dried up. The machine >ran great until one day when it just shut off by itself, and then I tried >to power it back up, and no dice. However, I appreciate the suggestion. > I've gone over the switches several times, but haven't seen an >misconfiguration. The board wasn't overclocked, or anything like that. >It was running in its intended fashion. > > ~mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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