Yea i suspected that aswell. However I dont have an oven large enough to attempt a reflow XD
Last night i tried reseating the heatsink over the northbridge but it was to no avail...
Sourcing such a specific component also will be hard. And if buy a new mobo to take the chip from, may aswell just use the new mobo instead
Yeah its not worth it to investigate if there is indeed an issue with the Northbridge cirquitry.
Best thing you could do, is finding a mobo that works 100%.
But yeah i´m not fully sure if its all worth it in general.
What do you wanne use this for?
As a side project?
Still weird that you do get post screen initialy.
It started as a side project when i found it to just get it back up and running and see what I could do with it.
Due to circumstances IRL, ive been having to use laptops and its been almost 10 years since I last had a desktop PC. (that old Pentium4 pc still works... but its northbridge heatsink metal fatigued off andi havnt gotten around to fixing it)
When I found it a friend said he would send me his 7870 so I could try to convert it into a gaming PC.
Theres a place here in Hong Kong which is full of shops that deal in refurbished computer parts and servers etc. with great prices, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to get myself a desktop again.
I'm costing out the prices of just doing a full DIY from the refurbished shops (All will test before you buy so its safe there)
I did see the following combo's available. Its just down to how far I can stretch my budget
Q9300 + asrock g41m vs3 for ~US$50
Or an i5-3570k + any decent board for ~US140
Well if you could afford that, with a Z77 board,
Then you basicly have a very sollid base for a gaming setup.
In fact if you overclock that 3570K a bit, it will still have no problem maxing out current gpu´s like
R9-390´s GTX970's / 980´s etc.
When things don't POST I wanna hear them scream beep. I usually pull everything but the CPU from the Mobo, I mean everything, so you just have PSU juicing a Mobo wearing a CPU, no RAM/GPU/nada.
Should beep. If not, it's likely, not certain, but likely snuffed in a way that's not worth your time.
If it does beep, look up the beep codes for that mobo. Add/Rem/Swap/rinse-repeat to isolate the issue.
Hope you can get it working, reuse > refuse, but everything dies eventually. Good luck.
I mean, I've previously prized a BIOS chip with a working config from a POSTing system while it's running so that I can put it in a non-boot Mobo of the exact same type, then boot, enter BIOS, swap-o-presto the chips again, save BIOS config & exit. Voila, restored BIOS.
But that's only because the resources where available, I wouldn't attempt to halt the arrow of time while I quest to save the life of an old piece of kit, much as I would prefer to avoid adding to the piles of toxic landfill, <sadface> it's just not worth it after a point... </sadface>
It makes the single short beep indicating the post was successful.
It then just hangs at the screen i showed in my original post. Impossible to select any option.
If I spam DEL, it will then say "Entering Setup" and freeze.
This is even with bare minimum, single stick of ram, keyboard and no drives/cd drives everything.
Twice its gone past that screen to a completely black screen.
Ive exhausted almost every bit of research i can on this issue and am running out of ideas
Ok, so with nothing but Mobo + PSU + CPU you get:
then there's definitely something wrong because it should cry like a baby that half its brain is hanging out.
Also, PSU could be a culprit, they degrade over time & output less & less power, so while giving appearance of supply they just can't hold up under load once the real draw kicks in, so if you have a known good PSU try that, but it's superfluous if the above stated scenario is the case:
There may be a chance that there's a short, maybe something conductive behind the Mobo or a bent pin etc. Or the CR2032 CMOS batt could be poor/dead (dead giveaway is computer that wants to party like it's 1900/1901/1970) - you could try a new CR2032 batt if you have one.
POST cards exist, but are only of use when the failure doesn't undermine the system such that it can't do or say something meaningful. Yeah, I know right?
Those POST cards are dirt cheap now with varying levels of quality. Can anyone say they have a good one? The high quality ones cost an arm and a leg.
There is usually a warning on POST that the clock needs to be set, when the battery dies. However, OP only got the POST beep once. I think he has a nonspecific mobo problem that isn't worth troubleshooting any further.
Indeed.
While i had no other PSU to try with my board, i did use my PSU to power up some spare computers at work and had zero issues. (They all had missing or failed psu's and were being kept for spare parts)
Its between balancing the cost of restoring this lga775 with mutiple troubleshooting equipment and risking it still cant be fixed (which all my test results indicate), or just spending the money on a tested and refurbished mobo/cpu of more recent generation.
I also replaced the cmos battery. Have a whole sheet of those from my uni days for my calculator
Ideally if this had worked off the bat, id have just done a ram upgrade and maybe squeeked in a Q6600 and start gaming with it.
May still get a POST card for use on a rainy day in the future
Thanks again for all the advice!