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Well I am pretty stumped, I was testing "another computer" with my parts. I finished, put all my parts back together and turned on my PC, it booted up normaly. But I noticed that on the BOOT it said I had 1150mhz processor instead of 1800xp. Well this has happened to me before, so I got into the cpu voltages and it was on 100/100, I changed it to 133/133 reboot. Now computer will turn ON all light stay on solid, but I wont get a display or a beep, it will just stay on.
This problem happened to me about 6 months ago on another similar computer 1200xp, the voltages were 100/100 I boosted them up too 133/133. I couldn't turn on the computer and had the same problem, I figured it was the voltages but couldn't get back into BIOS to change it. I took it too the place where I bought all the parts, and they took a look at it and told me I had the wrong voltages set and that is why it did that. Yet I never saw how were they ever actually got into the bios to change the voltages since it was black.
I am pretty sure something similar has happend to my computer, but I don't know how to get into the bios to change the cpu voltage, since the display is all black and the pc wont even beep.
If you can please help I would greatly appreciate it!

OK I am been trouble shooting this some more, so far I have removed the cmos battery and erased the cmos setting by moving a jumper, so they should be erased. NOTHING! still no reaction from PC.
Then I dismantled the computer, taking everything out! only motherboard and Powersupply. I don't get any beeps, don't know if I should?? But the computer is acting a little bit normal, because now only the power on light is on, and I can actually reboot it and power it off from the front panel buttons. (I used to have to unplug the PC to shut it off) One thing I noticed when I with only the mobo and powersupply running, the PWSupplie's fan is running very very slow! don't know what this indicates.
I put the CPU back on the motherboard, and turn it on, now I don't get any LED lights and can't reset or power it off. Same things happens when I only put one stick of 256 ddr memory 266mhz, without the cpu! I don't get ANY RESPONSE BACK FROM THE COMPUTER, from doing any of these things. It doesn't whine, beep, or anything!
I am thinking that either the mobo or cpu is bad, I am leaning more towards the mobo. But it was working fine a couple of hours ago, I don't know what could have gone wrong. I am hoping there is some thing I might have overlooked, Need your expertise on this guys.

I will try what Ben Rogers said and hold down the Page down button, I tried clearing the cmos by taking out the battery already and moving a certain jumper to clear it, but to no avail.
This problem has freaked me out soo much that, I had dreams last night about it that I fixed it like 3 times and it kept breaking :)
And I don't know if I fried it by changing the the setting to 133/133 because that was what the computer used to be, well I don't know anymore so I am willing to try anything.

Ok well I did I guess that last of my diagnosing, and well the holding Page up didn't do anything different, don't know what it is supposed to do.
But I connected everything back how it was, and I noticed that when I turn on the PC all the led light stay solid and dont go out, even my cd-rom, and I can open or close the shuttle.
But as soon as I take out the CPU I can actually hear the harddrive starting up, and I have 2 of them so I can really hear them hum in unison, all the LED's still stay on but I can now open the CD-rom shuttle, and I can power off the PC if I hold down the Power button.
I am thinking it is the CPU, I hear the core's crack when trying to shimmy out a cpu fan, I remember doing that a bit so I don't know if that caused it. But I remember the PC turning on, and then me changing the value on the frequency or clock however you call it from 100/100 to 133/133 and that is when my computer didn't want to turn back on. Tomorrow I am taking it to the shop and pay don't know how much money to get it looked at over there. It is kind of embarresing, I am an MCSE and A+ certified and I can't figure out what is wrong with this thing!

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