Re: [SLUG] hardware issue

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 13:12:25 EDT


I have found that sometimes when I remove things in the box, I didn't seat the all the way, even
though everything looks correct. Also, what motherboard are you using?

William

--- Alex Harris <nccuss17@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was changing out the fans on my linux desktop over the weekend, and
> while I was at it removed the processor (to blow out any dust that
> might have accumulated), and now the system will not POST (power on
> self test, the nice bios beep, nor any other beeps), or display
> anything on the monitor.
>
> The system is an amd duron 800mhz (socket A/460). I would appreciate
> it if someone who had a similar amd processor could bring one to the
> tampa meeting tomorrow evening at HCC so that I can figure out if it's
> my processor or the motherboard that broke (if someone could bring in
> their whole system that'd be cool too, but I figured the processor
> chip is a tad lighter and would do the job).

                
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