Boy, tough situation. First thing I think of is the video... which you have
already tested. Are they good video cards? Is one PCI and the other AGP?
I have run into this "no posting beep" about 4 times in the past. Twice was
a bad/loose video card. Once, the power supply was bad. And the last, was
the power supply shipped with the switch being 220 (rather than 115).
----- Original Message -----
From: "A2L1" <A2L1@gte.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:30 PM
Subject: [SLUG] not a linux problem
> This is not a linux problem strictly speaking. I just
> bought a new mobo and celeron 1.7 and have a problem. How
> do I test to find out if the processor or motherboard is
> bad?
> I get no post beep and no video(to even check the bios) so
> if the thing doesnt even boot how do I know which is the
> culprit? It will power up all the HDDs and the mobo power
> light is on so I know that the power at least gets to the
> mobo,even the fan on the cpu works fine. I have used 2
> different video cards to even eliminate the prospect of a
> bad video card. Since I am not getting any sort of post
> code at all (no beeps)how do I go about finding out which
> is not working properly?
> I mean I am going to return both but I was wondering from a
> "how would you know "standpoint.
> I would assume that with a known working system you could
> just swap processors and that would be the tellall but
> assuming that there is no other system what does one test?
> I have nothing but time while I wait for the shipping back
> and forth on this setup.
>
> Thanks,
> A J
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