Mugsy
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The nightmare continues. 
After 2 months, I finally figured out that the source of my crashing was a counterfeit AMD 3200+. So I mailed it back to the vendor and two weeks later (today), I received a brand new authentic 3200+ in return.
2 months ago, after disaster, I bought a brand new MB, power supply, cpu, ram and video card... essentially, everything but the case.
Over the past two weks, while I was w/o a processor, I tried dropping in my old heat-damaged Athlon 1800+, but the computer didn't even post. I just assumed the old processor had finally gone dead.
But today, my brand new 3200+ just arrived. I dropped it in (all copper heatsink) and it too doesn't even post. I'm getting power, fans and drives spin up, but again the computer doesn't even post.
I tried clearing the CMOS, and no hardware other than the cpu has changed since I pulled the old cpu out two weeks ago (everything was working then).
The only thing I can think of that would prevent the computer from even posting is a bad MoBo, but it is brand new and worked just fine two weeks ago.
Any ideas? :suspiciou
After 2 months, I finally figured out that the source of my crashing was a counterfeit AMD 3200+. So I mailed it back to the vendor and two weeks later (today), I received a brand new authentic 3200+ in return.
2 months ago, after disaster, I bought a brand new MB, power supply, cpu, ram and video card... essentially, everything but the case.
Over the past two weks, while I was w/o a processor, I tried dropping in my old heat-damaged Athlon 1800+, but the computer didn't even post. I just assumed the old processor had finally gone dead.
But today, my brand new 3200+ just arrived. I dropped it in (all copper heatsink) and it too doesn't even post. I'm getting power, fans and drives spin up, but again the computer doesn't even post.
I tried clearing the CMOS, and no hardware other than the cpu has changed since I pulled the old cpu out two weeks ago (everything was working then).
The only thing I can think of that would prevent the computer from even posting is a bad MoBo, but it is brand new and worked just fine two weeks ago.
Any ideas? :suspiciou
