Not inexpensive? Really? I would have thought you could buy an old celeron
board capable of supporting a 1.7ghz for $20 or less.. I personally would
use this as an opportunity to upgrade the motherboard and cpu.. Celerons
aren't exactly the best cpus out there. They're actually second rate
pentiums.
Comparison between Celeron, (1.7ghz) and Pentium 4, (1.7ghz) .
http://www.tomshardware.com/2002/09/...ers/page6.html
Athlons and Pentiums have almost equilivent peformance and usually AMD
processors are cheaper than Intel's.
You can buy an AMD Athlon 2200 with motherboard, built in video, sound and
cpu fan for $56.99 after the rebate.($76.99 before rebate) It is a far
superior processor to the celeron 1.7ghz.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813185065
I would consider returning the motherboard that you purchased if it cost
more than $50.
Hope that helps..
- Mike
"Adrian" wrote in message
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HI Michael
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Adrian wrote:
HI Mike
Thanks for the reply
Michael Kennedy wrote:
Have you tried basic troubleshooting like removing all the drives and
cards
and reseating the memory then powering it up? If that doesn't work,
remove
everything except the processor and power it up. It should give you
some
beep codes (memory or video) if the board and processor are working.
- Mike
Yup - tried all that.... no change to the reported symptoms.
I've just ordered a 'drop in' motherboard bundle - let's hope that fixes
it (after all - there's not much else to go wrong !)
I had a dead computer donated recently that had a bad momentary
switch. Gateway had used some strange type of black glue to hold it to
the front of the cabinet, and it had softened up to the point it would
slide back in its mount instead of letting the plunger move. A quick
cleaning and some decent glue, and it works OK.
Nice one !
Nothing quite so 'simple' in this case - unless you count motherboard
replacment as 'simple'. Guess it's simple - but not inexpensive....g
Ah well - wait for the nice parcel delivery man later today...
Regards
Adrian