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My computer died

I have two computers, one of which is my "production" box which has servers on it and the other is my "development" box, which I use on a daily basis. The development box (named Capital) died sometime while I was at OOPSLA. The fans come on, which indicate power is good, and the hard drives start up momentarily, but the BIOS screen never appears. After surfing the web, it seems as though it's probably my CPU or motherboard (mobo). I currently have an ASUS P4S8X using a Pentium4 2.4GHz CPU. I bought that around 4 or 5 years ago. I took my time researching the exact mobo I wanted. Now, however, I need something soon, and I need it cheap. Normally, I'm really happy to go out and buy new tech stuff, but this comes at a time when we have no spare money. So, I went out and bought an MSI PM8M-V board and spent tonight replacing one mobo for the other. Finally got that completed, turned on the computer - and nothing. Damnit. I was hoping to take the cheap way out since the MSI mobo only cost $80. Now it looks like I'll have to shell out for a new CPU. :sigh: The only other problem I could imagine it being is the video card, but I really don't think that's the case as the hard drives don't continue to be accessed, and there is no beep(s) from the BIOS upon startup.

Posted at 08:32PM Oct 29, 2006 by Gary Kephart in Computers  |  Comments[0]