Motherboard Problem
I hooked up a GA-7VAX board the other day with an AMD XP 2200+ When I boot it up, nothing displays, nothing runs, just the motherboard and cpu fans, as well as the power supply fan. It runs like this for 3 seconds, then it shuts itself off.
I hooked up a GA-7VAX board the other day with an AMD XP 2200+
When I boot it up, nothing displays, nothing runs, just the motherboard and cpu fans, as well as the power supply fan. It runs like this for 3 seconds, then it shuts itself off.
I am thinking it is the processor, and that it is bad.
But what do you think?
I've tried removing some RAM, all RAM, all components, etc. but nothing as worked so far.
When I take out the processor and try to run it, the power supply does run past the 3 seconds, so I know that it isn't that.
Any thoughts?
When I boot it up, nothing displays, nothing runs, just the motherboard and cpu fans, as well as the power supply fan. It runs like this for 3 seconds, then it shuts itself off.
I am thinking it is the processor, and that it is bad.
But what do you think?
I've tried removing some RAM, all RAM, all components, etc. but nothing as worked so far.
When I take out the processor and try to run it, the power supply does run past the 3 seconds, so I know that it isn't that.
Any thoughts?
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Either bad processor or motherboard would get my vote... Was the video card used known-good?
Sounds like a bad CPU to me.
Honestly, I'm not shocked.... A lot of online retailers are quite... difficult.... about returning processors. Replace the 'difficult' as you see fit.
Guess I was jumping to conclusions...
Hope this is not too late... You are entitled to a replacement by consumer law so long as the fault was not caused by negligence on your part. I imagine this chip has been bought from a fairly small company as larger ones usually have no problem with returned goods.
Often smaller companies will tell you that they won't accept a return because they know that most people will walk away. The best thing you can do is go back and demand a replacement after taking a look at consumer law, being able to quote something directly will often change their minds
If they still refuse to give you a replacement just report them to the office of fair trading (or whatever it's called these days) or at least threaten to. Don't let them push you around, you paid good money for the product you purchased!
Often smaller companies will tell you that they won't accept a return because they know that most people will walk away. The best thing you can do is go back and demand a replacement after taking a look at consumer law, being able to quote something directly will often change their minds
If they still refuse to give you a replacement just report them to the office of fair trading (or whatever it's called these days) or at least threaten to. Don't let them push you around, you paid good money for the product you purchased!
