- Nov 29, 1999
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Got in on the Frys ECS mobo/2.4 thoroughbred deal last month and finally got to try and put it together last week (was waiting on new ram). Hooked it all up and fired er up, or at least tried to. Fans/hdd's/cd's all started but no signal and no warning beeps either. Its not the video card cause I tried it in my other comp (celeron 550) and it worked. Tried 100's of other things and then noticed something....scary. I put the heatsink on backwards so the notched side was on the wrong area, and the heatsink wasnt fully seated, oops.
Got a different mobo temporarily (local shop let me borrow it, a Asus A7V8X-X) threw the setup together again and nothing.....green light on mobo came on but when I hit the power switch, nada, zip, zilch, nothing started. They let me borrow a different one just in case the board was bad and same thing, nothing started.
So, its either the cpu or ram, everything else has been thoughly (and I mean THOUGHLY) tested. Did I fry the cpu by not having the heatsink on right? Would faulty ram do it? Its DDR 2700 crucial memory.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Hope its not the cpu cause I think Frys has a 2 week return and its already past that
Thanks
PS. man that post just went on and on.....longer than I thought anyway
Got a different mobo temporarily (local shop let me borrow it, a Asus A7V8X-X) threw the setup together again and nothing.....green light on mobo came on but when I hit the power switch, nada, zip, zilch, nothing started. They let me borrow a different one just in case the board was bad and same thing, nothing started.
So, its either the cpu or ram, everything else has been thoughly (and I mean THOUGHLY) tested. Did I fry the cpu by not having the heatsink on right? Would faulty ram do it? Its DDR 2700 crucial memory.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Hope its not the cpu cause I think Frys has a 2 week return and its already past that
Thanks
PS. man that post just went on and on.....longer than I thought anyway