Hi everyone I am knocking together a PC for my nephews birthday and i assembled it as i have done everytime (Around 20 PC's now) and turned it on and nothing. Not a nothing. So then i started the tedious task of testing everything with a doner PC. Monitor - ok Graphics - ok Hard drive - ok Ram - ok DVD-R - ok Now that leaves me with the motherboard and CPU The cpu is a Intel celeron 2.8GHz and the motherboard is pcchips M952 socket 478. Now when i turn on the PC the whole thing starts but does not boot. However there is power going through the board because the CPU Heatsink fan is spinning. But does this mean the board could still be knackered or am i looking at the CPU. Also the intel celeron is a 533Mhz FSB should the motherboard jumpers be set to 100, 133 or 200MHz Thanks people Xsilver
try 133x4. also disconnect all data & power cables to drives. remove all cards & ram except for videocard & a stick of ram. reseat both of those plus the motherboard power connector(s). try the motherboard outside of the case.
Tried setting the jumpers but did not works still nothing. But i have now sussed it out. The board or more to the point the bios dont like celerons i stuck a P4 2.53Ghz in and the PC booted no messing and then stuck the celeron in the other and that also booted straight away. He said he would swap so i dont have to mess about sending it back. So sorted Thanks for the help
more likely is the version of celeron the bios doesn't like as in the celeron d compared to the plain celeron or celeron a. teach & learn
Humour me, is the RAM seated properly, are there any beeps when it first starts (is the PC speaker connected), I know it will not pass "post" if the RAM is not there/seated properly/correct type. M
ran into that problem with my last board in that it wouldn't post a celeron d but will with a celeron & no newer bios updates available for that board.
