EXPERTS HELP - DETAIL INFO ON PROB THX

[TillerMaN]

Hi,

I have a AMD Athlon 1333 Ghz Processor, my motherboard isa Socket A, M817 Apmtron, the link to it is as follows :-

http://www.amptron.com/html/m817lm.html

The problem is, that during playing a game or something I think, the screen froze, upon reboot, it would not start up, although I could hear the fans running fine. I thought hrm, as I'm clueless on hardware maybe processor fried or mobo fried. I have no idea how to test, but nothing untoward seemed to have happened like that, at least no clues to that.

So I thought Power Supply but as fans were running it couldn't be that, I then had to get my old comp working to get on internet etc and left it for a while, I also put power supply into old comp and it worked fine. Anyway, I was talking to the person I got comp from and he said his power supplies had caused some probs because they are not AMD approved, so I went look at list and he is right that particular model was not AMD approved but it had worked for 2-3 months so WTF? Can it suddenly stop working? He says I need to get a AMD approved PS and this will fix it.

If this is so how come the Fans work , the LED's on front of case DO NOT come on, could it be MOBO not working or Processor DIED? Could it really be Power Supply, I have tried 3 power supplies NONE are AMD approved, you would think one would work and the one that originally ran it, you would think it would work sometimes even?

Anyway anyone had same experience in this maybe or tell me how to know to figure out problem of what is broken thx??

Iain

 

[ZZZZZZ]

My guess would be the MB or CPU died. Did the HS/F warm up any even though the system did not power up?

 

[ianbergman]

Checking the processor heatsink is a good idea; if it warms up, there's power running through it. But since your LEDs don't come on, it sounds like the motherboard is fried; it might just be passing power to parts of the board, like the fan, and not others.

As to why this happened, it's anyone's guess, but it's always possible that something went wrong with the power supply - I'd recommend popping an AMD-approved supply in eventually, but I seriously doubt if that will fix the problem you already have.

And sometimes boards and processors just die; it's rare, but you never know.