Hi, I recently damaged my CPU when following poor intructions for a heatsink. One of the resistors on it became damaged. I purchased an identical resistor (the ones used by AMD in the first place) and had a specialist repair it. However, when I turn on the machine it still comes on for about a second or two, then turns off. I only just noticed my case has an inbuilt speaker and upon plugging it in I found it makes a high-low beeping tone (contantly) which starts immediately when the PC switches itself off. I looked up the beep and it seems to occur when a CPU overheating problem occurs (the resistor is apparently there for heat flow purposes). The motherboard is an MSI KT4V. I'm not sure what to do about this? I heard some motherboards can boot to BIOS with no CPU and allow these problems to be ignored if you choose them to (so the PC will still run rather than turn off). I'm not sure if this is true. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.

"I recently damaged my CPU when following poor intructions for a heatsink. One of the resistors on it became damaged. I purchased an identical resistor (the ones used by AMD in the first place) and had a specialist repair it." To be honest I have never met anyone who can "repair" a CPU by replacing a resistor. You only have to see how a CPU is made to realise why I would find such a repair questionable to say the least. There are some very,very specialist boards that can open to bios, not usually for the public retail market. Yours, of course, can't. AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 WinXP Pro. WinXP Pro x64 Nvidia:6800GT Dane Electronic Pro. Dual 1024MB 400MHz RAM Tagan 480Watt PSU: 28Amps on +12volt rail. Asus A8V Deluxe "WiFi" M/Board - Aqua

Buy a new CPU. You cooked that one totally. What did you pay for this "resistor" that can cure a damaged AMD chip? You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users

Didn't pay anything and I know it was done properly. The resistor was completely smashed and was replaced properly.

Whatever. And how's that working for you? You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users

I have a KT4V also, and am having the same problem with the high/low tones. My temp is never higher than 55C even with a heavy load. The shutdown is very inconsistant. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it doesn't. This all started happening when my PSU went dead and the new one I bought arced when installed. The new new PSU works fine but now I get the tones...did you ever resolve this problem?