[Cialug] Power Supply Tester

[jrnosee]

I too have seen multiple LGA775 P4 systems go down within the last year.
 Both of mine (and I think another one or two I know of) had the
motherboard go out with no visible signs of death (no popped caps...).  I
took a chance and ordered mobo's and that fixed 'em.

Good luck finding 775 boards...especially if you're picky like me and only
take full ATX boards.

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Scott Prader <rigrunn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you everyone that came forward!  I've managed to determine that
> > the power supply is fine, but that either the motherboard or CPU is at
> > fault.  The CPU is an LGA 775 Pentium 4 and I do not have a spare one
> > sitting around.  The closest possible replacement seems to be around
> > $70 in Urbandale and CL appears to be dry, but if anyone has a spare
> > one that I could give a whirl, either by loaning or if I brought the
> > computer to someone's house and plugged it in there to test, it would
> > be much appreciated.
>
> Interestingly enough, I had this happen recently on two computers. I
> now have two sitting here with good power supplies and RAM but either
> the mb or the cpu are dead. I'm pretty certain it's the CPU (LG 775
> Core 2 Duo).
>
> Instead of paying $70 for a cpu, if it comes down to it, if you go to
> mid-west electronic recovery over by Sam's club [1] you can get a
> whole new computer with a core 2 duo cpu and no OS for a little under
> $100. I picked up two IBM workstations for $95 and there was a stack
> of Gateways available for (I think) $85.
>
> They actually had a whole tray of CPUs sitting on a desk when they
> were ringing me up, maybe they'd sell you just a cpu.
>
> [1] http://www.mcbia.com/ewaste/
>
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