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cant tell if cpu is broke or motherboard

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Name: stalkerensemble
Date: October 18, 2009 at 14:36:39 Pacific
OS: Windows xp
Subcategory: General
Tags: Cpu crash, XP
Comment:

I was away on vacation when my gf was on my
computer. she said it started to freeze up then just
froze, she had to disconnect the power plug and it
wont boot up.does not even show bios.when i turn on
the power all the led's light up n the fans start moving
but nothing comes up on the monitor i tried a different
gfx card and no luck.I was wondering could it be my
motherboard or cpu.i had installed a after market cpu
fan and noticed recently it had started spinning harder
by it self.



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Response Number 1
Name: grasshopper
Date: October 18, 2009 at 17:15:22 Pacific
Reply:

If you have the xp disk, try this

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...


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Response Number 2
Name: stalkerensemble
Date: October 18, 2009 at 19:38:47 Pacific
Reply:

Tried but still nothing showing up on monitor not even bios,so
can not tell if it is booting from cd


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Response Number 3
Name: stalkerensemble
Date: October 21, 2009 at 00:11:35 Pacific
Reply:

I have tried taking the ram out,and the mobo beeps.
so im guessing it is still working.
i have tried putting a gfx card into it and that did not work.
so im guessing cpu is broke


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