Acer Mobo won't POST (fixed)

[CapLeaker]

Had an 9 year old Acer with an AMD 4000+ X2 here on the bench that was for some time in storage. Person needed it for the daughter as a handy down. Got that thing home, turned it on, fans come on, no screen or anything else. Cleared the CMOS, no go. Took the dead battery out and tried again no go.

The old Mobo's have a socketed bios chip. Take that chi out of the socket, reseat, put fresh battery in, voila... computer POST's fine as kind!
The thermal compound on the CPU was hard like concrete. The heatsink was glued to the CPU that I had to rip the heatsink with the CPU out of its socket in one piece! After some prying, I got them to seperated, cleaned, new paste and installed. Turned the sucka on and HDD failed. Goes click click click... can't boot. I guess I'll be looking for a HDD tomorrow.

[stj]

Re: Acer Mobo won't POST (fixed)

check the psu caps because it could cause the HD issue

[Topcat]

Re: Acer Mobo won't POST (fixed)

^
Could have also caused the POST issue.

[CapLeaker]

Re: Acer Mobo won't POST (fixed)

The CPU caps are fine. I checked them after this post. I got a used HDD and the unit works perfectly fine. I had to work on a whole stack of computers. However now I have a different candidate. More to that in a new thread! ;-)

[stj]

Re: Acer Mobo won't POST (fixed)

i didnt say cpu caps, i said psu caps

[CapLeaker]

Re: Acer Mobo won't POST (fixed)

Of course stj... That would be a cause too.