Thing was the system was operating just fine before I removed the cpu
chip. And the only thing that I removed (aside from two fans), was
the cpu chip. So I removed those two fans, when I turned it on the
hard drives spun up, and the remaining fans spun, and the heatsink got
really warm.
I then Powered it down and removed the cpu chip and it's fan, and
powered the system back up, same exact result (minus the hot
heatsink).
Another test I did was to unplug the machine remove the battery, wait
15 seconds (I counted them down), and then put the battery back in,
plugged in the computer and hit the power button, same reaction (hot
heatsink, no beeps, no display).
It's an american megatrends bios (or at least that logo was displayed
at bootup back when it worked).
On 8/8/05, Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.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.
>
> Not sure if it's the processor... You should get 5-7 beeps for a processor failure
> on AMI BIOS. Others will (usually) still beep at least twice for CPU related. No
> beeps often means bad power (do the fans spin up?) or a bad jumper (e.g., reset is
> shorted). Some things to try if you haven't done so:
>
> With the system unplugged, press the power-on switch to clear any remaining power,
> then try a real power-up. Clear the CMOS. Reseat the power supply and PCI/AGP cards.
> Disconnect the second IDE channel (in some boards it can cause a system that appears
> to be dead when jumpered incorrectly). Remove all cards then power on (bad card?).
>
>
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