wrote:
> Hi,
>> My machine stopped booting last night - it had been a little
> temperamental for the last few weeks, sometimes not powering up first
> time, only working when I'd pull out the power cable and stick it in
> again. Then it would run fine - last ran on Wednesday night
> for 2-3 hours.
>> Anyway, last night it wouldn't boot at all - the fans spin, the hard
> drive spins up, LEDs on the motherboard come on, but that's
> it - no beeps.
>> Any ideas? - dead CPU (Athlon XP2500+, hadn't been running hot or
> anything), power supply, motherboard (Abit AT7-MAX2)?
>> I have a Duron somewhere that I'll swap in tonight to see if
> that fixes
> things, was just wondering if this booting thing was a symptom of bad
> power supply or what?
>> Thanks,
> Aidan.
Reseat the processor. Does the keyboard light come on?
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