Nerd_Annhilator Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Yeah I'm stumped. I just recently bought new parts for a computer with my christmas money, an AMD 3500+ and an ASUS A8V-Deluxe motherboard. Knowing my luck of course, once they arrived in the mail and I installed them the computer didn't start up properly. All the fans spun, I could hear hard drive activity for a moment, the LED on the motherboard is green and everything look fine, but theres no image on screen. I fiddled around with it for a while, and it still didn't work. Plugged in speakers, testing to see if I could hear the startup sound for windows, but I had forgotten ASUS has a useful spoken POST test. Now whenever I turn the freaking thing on I hear "SYSTEM FAILED CPU TEST" Now my question is, how can I tell if the problem is the motherboard or the CPU? The answer seems pretty obvious, but its not. It -could- be the CPU, but I get the feeling theres a better chance that its the motherboards CPU socket. Things I've tried that didn't work: Switching RAM for different RAM Trying other RAM sockets Re-seating the CPU and fan Checking the CPU for bent pins (none) Trying a different power supply Anyone have any ideas (Yeah sure it could be dead, just making sure before I get replacements however) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manoman81 Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 OK. Do you have just your hard drive, cd (or equivalent), floppy, cpu and mobo in at the moment? If not, leave everything else (sound card, video card) out of it until you you have those three main things running. Are you sure you got the right processor and/or mobo type? Is it in the socket correctly? Look at the bottom of the processor chip to see if you do have any bent pins. And finaly, how is your power source? Is it big enough to handle the new mobo? Other than that, make sure you have a warranty on all of that stuff and send it back to the supplier. Someone else might have a better idea. I'll talk to my boss at work tomorrow and see if he can think of anything too. Edit: Were you grounded when you went to install everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 take everything apart and read the instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerd_Annhilator Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 take everything apart and read the instructions. I've...done this before, kthx. Manoman, I've done the CPU check multiple times. Power supply is fine, rated at 480 watts. Also, I was grounded while installing everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 If there's no image on screen than it could be the graphics card as well. I'd return the processor as defective and see if a replacement fixes everything. Even if it doesn't, you'd at least know that it isn't the processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manoman81 Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 If there's no image on screen than it could be the graphics card as well. I'd return the processor as defective and see if a replacement fixes everything. Even if it doesn't, you'd at least know that it isn't the processor. Ditto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Malak02 Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Ditto. I'd return the processor as well, but for a different reason. your motherboard probably doesn't support the processor...either buy another motherboard(and this time make sure its compatible with all of your hardware) or you could return the processor...that's my take on your problem (i could ask my cisco teacher he's a genius when it comes to computers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerd_Annhilator Posted January 29, 2006 Author Share Posted January 29, 2006 Solved the problem long ago, faulty motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalloutMan Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 im surprised that its fualty coming from asus, they have some tight quality control. but, id take ASRock over anything any day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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