I turned it on yesterday, it started to boot up and then turned off halfway through booting up. The power supply is good. I have tested loads of stuff in other systems and have come to the conclusion that both the motherboard and chip have blown :mad:

unsual for the board & chip to go without the power supply!

 

Maybe the power supply is faulty too - there are alot of cheap £10 jobs out there - i always go for a decent one after having loads of probs with cheap rubbish...

 

does you board have a warranty? - some of the chips have a 3 year warranty... if so contact the supplier or manufacturer for a replacement...

 

Barry

Sounds to me like you could have had a cpu cooler problem, perhaps the fan didnt start up. If it's an athlon it will dies very quickly and can take the motherboard down with it.

I think my CPU did take my motherboard with it. I got a good fan on it and I am using that fan now on my spare computer.

 

So much for this think which is meant to turn my computer off before it gets too hot. :mad:

 

It did turn my computer off but not in time :mad:

 

 

I still have the recpets for them 2. Do you reckon I can get them replaced? Or you think they will ask questions and get awkward?

 

They are both deffo gone. Cos the chip that does work doesnt work in the blow motherboard, and the chip doesnt work in the motherboard which is working now, if you catch my drift.

 

 

Stuart

If u didn't use the standard cooler (ie from the amd retail pack (r we talking athlon here?)) i wouldnt have thought u could give it back, but im no expert on these matters.

 

If u want some cheap bits to keep your system goin ill have a 1900xp + asus a7v333 motherboard forsale the day after christmas day (i wonder why ;) ), probably only want about £50, maybe less i havent really checked out prices.

 

Anywho im off to play planetside:)

Thanks mate but the computer I made with spare bits hanging round the house is an 2000XP with ASUS A7V-333 Motherboard ;)

 

We have 6 PCs in our house now.

 

AMD 64 1.6 (1.6 but FAF!)

AMD 2800+ XP Barton ASUS A8S Deluex (Or Something)

Intel Pentium 4 2.6

AMD 2100+ XP - ASUS SYSTEM.

AMD 2000+ XP - ASUS A7V-333.

Intel P III 1Ghz,

 

Oh and a laptop.

 

Stuart

Nice,

so what went pop?

We're now a 6pc house aswell, for the moment anyway.

3pc's 2100-2800xp's,

2 p4 2400 laptops,

and a 1ghz carputer with nice touch screen, about to be installed into a certain car!

 

hows the 64bit badboy goin? The top off the range ones are v.expensive so i looked at some of the lower speeds like the 1.4 & 1.6, but i assumed at those clock speeds they'd be pretty slow. Not the case?

No the AMD 64 are veru very fast.

 

The way chips work they are only 133mhz but then like turboed by the miltiplyer. AMD 64 are 1.6 ghz. No multiplyer as far as I know. They are expensive and a little complex too. I dont understand the 1 way and 2 way crap.

 

The computer which went pop was my AMD 2800+ Barton.

usually if you bought them on line u have to send em back for testing, obviously they aint gonna work so you should get replacements. if you got them from high street shop same applies.

 

i used to work in a computer shop and really theres no way of telling how a board dies unless it has obvious signs such as burnt out components etc, if its dead its dead we'd swap em.

Thats what I thought.

 

Other things I have sent back, they test them, and obviously they will plug it in and nothing will happen. And like you said there is no way of telling what is wrong with it. The fans turn and the power light comes on but that is it.