bad ram and the computer will beep at ya!!. bad viedo card same thing!. his computer is halting at power good self test!. not power on self test!. only two things that could be wrong .
1) bad power supply
2) bad processor!.
since he is getting power to the fans most likely the motherboard is good!.
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It's running, but at the wrong speed, so it can't be the PS.
Edit: how reliable is the chip source? It won't be the first time that a chip has been relabelled.
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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Yeah the power supply may conceivably be the cause, but how would buying an agp card and installing that test if the power suppply or cpu were working and if as you say the power supply is at fault why replace the cpu? + we already know his video card works.
not necessarily true if the AGP card is sucking up to much amperage there will not be enough current to drive the microprocessor thus causing the the computer to fail the power good test!.
but yes it most likely is a bad micro processor !. hopefully he purchased a retail rather than a oem processor !!. . retail has 3yr warranty and oem depends on where he bought it!.
Simpleton
u usuallt get a year with oem, and hes only just bought it so the warranty aint no problem.
my advice kick it, it sometimes works/
a dead processor will allow the fans to run!. this is from experiance!. same with video using a card other than a geforce or radeon since they both are current hungry cards will determine wether the power supply is being over tapped!. since the video card runs and displays at post!. buy removing the card you you should get beeps!. and no post memory by removing from the board you will recieve the same thing!. bad memory or memory in wrong slot the machine will not power up i.e no fans running. putting a video card in just gives you visual if indeed it is power supply not nessary to do so!. no beeps and fans run equals processor!. but of course make sure your case came with a pc speaker also!.
now if you have a jumpered mother board I.E. can manually adjust your multipliers. they could be wrong! and produce the same thing!.
hopefully you did not mess with this before checking out to see if every thing works!. since this was a new setup right out of the box i assumed everything was at it's manufacter's defaults on the motherboard. thus this is what i was trouble shooting
damn was repling to the first post lol!. now tring to figure out how he got into the bios if only thing running was the fans and power to the drives?. BTW which motherboard are you using?. and chipset?.
no wonder I am confusing everyone!.
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We knew you'd catch up eventually.
And getting that info seems like getting blood from a stone.
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Based on the information in the manual posted at the web link you provided on the previous page, that motherboad is not intended to support the Athlon XP CPU.
It states:Your friend who built it and told you that you could install a Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB has misinformed you.CPU Support
Support Socket462 package CPU
AMD Athlon Processor: 600 ~ 1.33+ GHz.
AMD Duron Processor 600 ~ 850+ MHz.
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Ahh, didnt go that far to notice that for his motherboard.Originally posted by Somebody1234@19 September 2003 - 13:26
Based on the information in the manual posted at the web link you provided on the previous page, that motherboad is not intended to support the Athlon XP CPU.
It states:Your friend who built it and told you that you could install a Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB has misinformed you.CPU Support
Support Socket462 package CPU
AMD Athlon Processor: 600 ~ 1.33+ GHz.
AMD Duron Processor 600 ~ 850+ MHz.
What a poorly informed friend, to try to put that palamino on such an older CPU based Mobo.
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