No video after processor switch.

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fibroptikl

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The system in question is a Celeron D 2.8, Intel D915GEV, 512MB DDR2 and Onboard Video.

I have a LSI Logic x8 SAS Card in the x16 slot.

I started an install of Windows Server 2003, until I realized that the reason I'm installing it is because I switched my processor. However, I had not done that yet.

I will list exactly what I did:

1) I turn off the computer, pull the power plug out of the power supply.
2) Remove Intel OEM HSF.
3) Cleaned HSF and CPU w/ Arctic Clean.
4) Applied grain-sized AS5 onto P4 3.0GHz CPU.
5) Put CPU back into board and confirmed it was seated correctly.
6) Put HSF back onto board. While I fumbled with it a bit more than usual, I guess it was because I didn't have enough light. I got angry at those things when I normally don't have a problem with it.
7) Power on.
8) After I power it on, the lights for the board come on, the HSF spins, and the lights on the LSI Logic SAS card come on like normal too.
9) I tried different jumper settings, pulling out CMOS battery, and even a BIOS recovery which worked before (when I had an issue with no video when I first got the machine). However, it did not even start loading the image on the floppy. The machine does notice when I take out the memory as well.

Switched the CPU to the original one, and I get the same results. No set of resetting stuff, different combinations is getting me video output.

Any ideas? I worked on it for a little bit Saturday and Sunday, but between concerts and movies I never got a good block of time to clear my mind and think.

I do plan to try putting in an old PCI video card to see if it is outputting the video to one of the PCI Express/PCI slots vs Onboard.
 
are you sure the cpu isn't dead, because thats exactly what would happen. Does the problem go away if you change the cpu back? If so, I think you've successfully isolated the problem

I had that problem once when I stuck a barton into an older skt a board that didn't support them. (I know the d915 supports that cpu, but still)
 
thrawn86 said:
are you sure the cpu isn't dead, because thats exactly what would happen. Does the problem go away if you change the cpu back? If so, I think you've successfully isolated the problem

I had that problem once when I stuck a barton into an older skt a board that didn't support them. (I know the d915 supports that cpu, but still)
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fibroptikl said:
Switched the CPU to the original one, and I get the same results. No set of resetting stuff, different combinations is getting me video output.
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I know the old CPU works. I'm not worried about the new CPU at this time, I am more worried about getting it up using the old one.
 
I tested both CPU's in an ABIT board at work, and both boot up just fine.
 
Can you test the RAM in a different computer?

Can you test the PSU?
 
Well if the proc works, the PSU works and the RAM works then it can really only be the motherboard. :(
 
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