I think I killed it. *IT LIVES!!!*

[pomtzu]

DITTO! I can even get the case off of mine.. Wouldn't know what to do with it if I did!

That's a relief!!! I thought I was the only techno-idiot on PT!!!

[Catty1]

Google your brand and model of computer and add the words "open case". Then get a can of compressed air and blow the sucker out! Esepcially the fans and the metal around them. That alone can speed up your computer some and prevent expensive repairs from overheating.

[Puckstop31]

Google your brand and model of computer and add the words "open case". Then get a can of compressed air and blow the sucker out! Esepcially the fans and the metal around them. That alone can speed up your computer some and prevent expensive repairs from overheating.

That works... But I recommend you use a vaccumm cleaner and suck it up. The duster cans just spread the dust around, unless you take the PC outside to do it.

[Hellow]

Are you /sure/ its a CPU issue? The PSU gets tested in POST too. Try putting the CPU into a different computer - it wont hurt the other computer, CPUs dont fry mobos. I'm suspecting that it is the PSU, CPUs don't frequently just up and die like that, and the PSU is almost always stressed. Either that or your just utterly dominated your mobo.

[blue]

Im at the point where I am willing to try the suspect CPU in the other box but I dont have any thermal paste for the heatsinks.

If I get bored later Ill swap a different PSU in and see if it will POST.

The comps are Acers not the greatest on the market. The one that is broken has already been refurbished once, I bought it that way dont know what was fixed.

[blue]

Tried the other PSU (550w) that POSTed on another comp. No beep code on POST with only the fans and CPU powered and nothing else.

[blue]

Swapped the CPU and it works.

Looks like tomorrow Ill be picking up a new motherboard and thermal paste from the local shop.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Are you /sure/ its a CPU issue? The PSU gets tested in POST too. Try putting the CPU into a different computer - it wont hurt the other computer, CPUs dont fry mobos. I'm suspecting that it is the PSU, CPUs don't frequently just up and die like that, and the PSU is almost always stressed. Either that or your just utterly dominated your mobo.

Thats exactly what I was thinking too, AMDs tend not to up and just die...*although Ive seen it happen due to overheating*

Looks like you have a bad mobo if the new PSU did the same thing.

[blue]

Its a good thing I dont need a fancy MB, hopefully by tomorrow night I can have both comps running, cleaned up, and all the monitors working.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Glad you found the culprit! MBs seem to be getting cheaper and cheaper nowdays I swear. My mobo fried because some jerk at Emachines thought that overtighning the cpu heatsink clamps was a good idea. I found out that it was tightened so much that it warped my MB and some of the resistors fried.

Tis the bane of using refurbished although hubby just got a new set up and is already having hardware issues. Asus says "its just the way that board is" and I'm all "you put out bad hardware on purpose?!?" Sigh...