Alasdair Campbell wrote:

"Clint Sharp" wrote in message
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Alasdair Campbell writes
Hi all,

I have two identical Intel D845GLAD main boards, 2 CPUs, one stick
of working RAM and a reliable PSU. Neither board will post & no
beep codes whatsoever, board A at least switches on and off (Fans
kick in), Board B just sits there like a dead duck.

If the board switches on/off the cpu is possibly Ok. Check for correct
voltages on power rails!

When CPU B is in Board A, the fans die after 10 seconds; with CPU
A the board sits on happily for hours. Checked thermal paste and
chip seating.
As
I have no access to a working Intel main board or CPU what can I
ascertain
from the difference in behaviour of the processors?
Umm, they're both faulty but in different ways?

Absolutely nothing is my favoured guess at the moment but glad to
be corrected...
Might be worth buying a cheap POST card from eBay, could be BIOS
corruption/bad flash on the semi working one..

The semi working board died after a memory upgrade attempt by a
client's
son. As I've never had aboard die on me, I can't see how he would
have mangaed to kill it and presumed it was BIOS corruption, however
the emergency bios update system isn't working.

Quite probably "static damage"

I think I'll just need to say goodbye to it/ Hate throwing things
out however..


Alasdair



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