PC Refuses to POST! HELp quick!

Jengo

well me and my friend have been trying to get His PC to work for days. we just cant seem to figure out whats wrong. the PC turns on but nothing is displayed on Screen or i cannot hear any activities coming from the hard drive. the hard drive comes on but you cant hear it working.

At first i thought it was the motherboard. so i went on Ebay and bought another. for like 40 dollars. (its a P3 celly) so we threw it in his case today and hooked everything back up. still nothing displayed on screen. then i tried another video card (one that i know works cause i just took it out of another PC) put it in. still no hope. re-seated ram. no luck changed slots no luck. the only thing else i can think of is the Processor. it might have went kaput. but im not sure. i am totally stumped.... i just cant figure out what the heck is going on... plz help guys.

bothered

Does it beep at all?

Jengo

no beeps. in either motherboard

Disvengeance

If it doesnt post, and both motherboards were good, then its the cpu.

Jengo

are you sure? it was working perfectly fine. then one day it just stopped.

qparadox

when silicon chips die they tend to do so quickly and somewhat dramatically (in thermal terms but you might not notice it). Unseat the CPU and do some sniffing, take off the monster heatspreader if you can and do some more sniffing. Other than that perhaps the power supply.

TheSmJ

It's the CPU. those are the classic "dead CPU" symptoms.

Check it on another board if you can.

Jengo

thanks guys. i have never encountered a Dead CPU so i didnt know what to expect. i always thought when a CPU would die that a message would apear or something (like on boot up/bios)

thanks guys.