Hoped for a cheap upgrade from older Pentium to AMD Duron 1400.
1) Removed Pentium MB with PCI cards
2) Installed Matsonic 8137C MB (which was also working when removed 2 weeks ago from another computer - it does have a recently flashed BIOS), along with Duron 1400. AGP video card, memory and PCI cards reinstalled from old Pentium computer.
3) Powered up -- no video
4) Checked connections -- of course!
5) Exchanged memory with different sticks (used both DDR and SDRAMM - separately - MBR supports either
6) Changed to different CPU chip (Duron 1600)
Never got video.
7) Reassembled old Pentium, it works fine. I know the memory and extra CPU works, I'm using them installed on a different, separate computer as I type this.
Any SIMPLE suggestions? Shouldn't be monitor, video card, memory, cables, or etc. They are all working now. Might be the motherboard, but it was working when I removed it from another case 2 weeks ago.
We did double check connections and etc. Are we just overlooking something obvious?
Thanks for the help.
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9/03/04 - Found the problem - bad CPU
Thanks for the help
1) Removed Pentium MB with PCI cards
2) Installed Matsonic 8137C MB (which was also working when removed 2 weeks ago from another computer - it does have a recently flashed BIOS), along with Duron 1400. AGP video card, memory and PCI cards reinstalled from old Pentium computer.
3) Powered up -- no video
4) Checked connections -- of course!
5) Exchanged memory with different sticks (used both DDR and SDRAMM - separately - MBR supports either
6) Changed to different CPU chip (Duron 1600)
Never got video.
7) Reassembled old Pentium, it works fine. I know the memory and extra CPU works, I'm using them installed on a different, separate computer as I type this.
Any SIMPLE suggestions? Shouldn't be monitor, video card, memory, cables, or etc. They are all working now. Might be the motherboard, but it was working when I removed it from another case 2 weeks ago.
We did double check connections and etc. Are we just overlooking something obvious?
Thanks for the help.
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9/03/04 - Found the problem - bad CPU
Thanks for the help