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Offline Jeremy Clarke

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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2003, 09:49:20 pm »
It's a Compaq Presario 5000 with socket 462 AMD processor.
The motherboard is a UWAVE, there is a pic of one below from Ebay. The video card is a Nvidia Vanta LT. The other one I've tried is an old Intel 740.
I took the motherboard completely out today, took off everthing down to the bare board just like the picture shows. All the caps, resistors, jumpers, and everthing else looks fine. I took out the CPU too. I removed the CMOS battery, left it out for half an hour while I got a new one. I dusted it all with CO2 and put it all back together very carefully. I tried it with just one stick of RAM, the AGP, and no cables, then I slowly connected more and more trying it in between. Same results at all stages :evil:
The CPU fan spins the cd drives power up, but there are no beeps, no picture and no floppy avtivity. :cry:
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« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2003, 10:02:06 pm »
did you try a working video card, memory stick and cpu?  If so, your mobo has gone the way of the dodo.  :(  Upside is that mobos are relatively cheap, as is a cpu or memory.  And even a used video card is not alot for one of the Vanta class or the i740.
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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2003, 10:09:47 pm »
Yeah the RAM and Video cards are all verified as working in my PC. I don't have any spare 462 processors around to test :?

Can a kid fooling with the hardware profile really kill the CPU or MB?
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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2003, 10:53:43 pm »
Quote from: "Jeremy Clarke"

Can a kid fooling with the hardware profile really kill the CPU or MB?


No, but other things could cause it - like a static shock to a card, a dead card shorting the board, O/C attempts etc.

The problem now is to determine if it is the;
a - Power Supply (faulty atx lead)
b - Cooked CPU (heat or short or overvoltage mod by user)
c - Mainboard (dead circuit on board)

Of the 3, the CPU or mobo would be most likely, but not necesarily.
The UWAVE board is Amptron if I remember right, and is not great in performance or expansion
The PSU in the unit should be upgraded to 300w if you upgrade the cpu/mobo

Since the motherboard, ram and 1.2ghz cpu are from an older model line, and upgrade will most likely require replacement of all 3 - maybe even the psu too - you will be best to have it tested by a shop at this stage (I could test but you are pretty far from Van)
Make sure that it is out of warranty - they may have got 3years at the time and it sounds like 2 years old
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2003, 11:28:40 pm »
I'd say there's a good chance your motherboard is toast. I go through motherboards and power supplies like pairs of underwear
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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2003, 11:30:50 pm »
oh, and if the kid tried to overclock it, you could fry the CPU.
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« Reply #21 on: December 15, 2003, 01:58:59 pm »
ROFL, by kid I am meaning 4 years old. I don't think he is overclocking yet, :laugh: They do have a 2-year old also who I have found out had an liking for pushing the reset button over an over again :roll: So yeah I guess lots of things could be toast. I'm gonna get it into a shop to find out.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions.
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« Reply #22 on: December 18, 2003, 12:40:30 pm »
So, I took the junker to a shop for $25 and it turns out the motherboard is FUBAR. They will sell me a new one for $90 (and want $75 for the five minute install ROFL, like hell!) I can probably get an Ebay one cheaper but before I do I figured I'd ask you Uber computer guys if you happen to have any Micro-ATX boards around? They need to take PC-133 SDRAM and slot A AMD though cause I'm not willing to upgrade to DDR and new processor.
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