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CPU Fried?

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Weaksauce
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Last night we had a thunderstorm here in Massachusetts. And me being the dumbass that I am, couldn't get myself away from watching a Quake 3 frag movie, and I had just fried my last surge protector and was on a temporary 6 plug attachment that goes into your wall directly. My monitor went blac, and the LED went yellow, but the PC kept running, didn't reboot or anything. So I quickly unplugged everything and then started it back up, and I get an error message in BIOS saying the CPU Is damaged or has been changed. I pressed F1 and it continued to load into windows succesfully.I reboot and decide to try stock 2.4ghz speeds, and it's a no go. Monitor goes black, yellow LED. but the interesting thing is that the keyboard LED's (Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock) still light up. But anyways I turn off/on the computer and it automatically starts up in 1.2ghz. I resetted the BIOS twice, still nothing. I grabbed the Surge protector from the TV room, and that appeared to have gotten fried before I had even gotten to it, shows the red light. Ok so I get diffrent wires, nothing. Is this just a setting maybe in the BIOS? Or has my 2.4C hit the fan? Thanks for any advice you guys might have.
 
Also if it helps, the CPU was not overclocked when this hapened, it was at stock 2.4ghz.
 
Try reflashing your BIOS and see what happens.

I am not familiar with that kind of issue, all of the "storm" encountered machines I run into are usuallly completely toasted. (i.e the psu is fried first, then surges to everything else)
 
might be the baord try the chip in different board and try to get into windows repair install last surge I had to repair install. Hard drive mostly bite the dust. post back if you have got any updates or progress
 
I'll try reflashing the motherboard, then trying the chip in a diffrent motherboard. I was thinking also that there might be a problem with the video card. Considering that the computer continues to load and boot up. Just doesn't display it. Or maybe just the AGP port?
 
I'd have to say your motherboard and possibly your power supply. The board is underclocking the chip by far. 1.2Ghz isn't even possible with newer P4 chips. No don't even mention socket 423 or I'll slap the hell out of you! :D

All the things you've described point to a defective motherboard. I mention the PSU because a surge has to have a point of entry. If your modem or cable/DSL modem are not burned, the power supply is where it came from. Rule of surges, if it came through and damaged equipment beyond it, it can't be trusted either.

Time to call your home owner's insurance company!
 
/me hugs UPS...

even if it didnt have a battery, i would still have it, as it will take a surge in the !!!!!!!! and keep going... then one days, when lightning attacks, it will jump infront of the bullet for the comp, then APC will replace it. lol
 
The BIOS is also talking to the Firmware in GPU, maybe look into that also..
 
Okay I flashed the BIOS using Flashmenu, and now when POSTing, just locks up right after the CPU Readout, after confirming that Hyper Threading is enabled. Even when I reset the CMOS it'll give the same thing. The gunny thing is that sometimes if I reboot, it'll bring me a little bit farther. Like just today it brought me to the RAM readout. And last night when I kept rebooting it over and over, I got some weird stuff. LIke it would read the CPU twice, and then get to ram. And when it go to that, the colors of the text would be all diffrent. And I also notice alotta typos, but they changed when I reboot. Example :Hyp#r-Threading" and "Memry". Corrupt BIOS?Fried Motherboard?
 
Confirms my post, your motherboard is shot. The video colors could also mean your video card is shot too, but the only way to confirm that is to put the video card in another system or replace your motherboard.
 
Yeah I gave the motherboard/cpu/ram to my brother, he's taking it into work tomorrow to do some troubleshooting for me. I'm sure the video card/agp is fine, because of the fact when it was running at 1.2ghz before the flash, I could play games with no artifacts or discolorations. I think it's the BIOS or motherboard acting up. If I have to get a new motherboard, then I guess it's Max 3 time for me =).
 
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