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Finding a replacment cpu is proving difficult it appears nobody carries a socket a processor athlon xp 3200+ barton

rebooting failed, right back to where we started. Starts for a second and then stops, if it does run longer I get the high low constant beep until it shuts off. If I can get it to boot it seems to run fine, until I want to restart it. I suspect the CPU is failing or possibly the MOBO, I think I...

Not exactly sure what happened, but I reseated the CPU and put on new thermal grease, then put in an old HDD with windows 2000 and the computer booted. So then I put in the original HDD and the computer is working as it should. Now the question remains is the CPU going bad or possibly the PSU...

I unplugged the power to the HDD and booted into setup and found 25VSTR fail +3.3v fail +12v fail CPU Temp 0 Current system Temp 0 I did run a tester on the PSU and it shows OK the CPU fan is running as well as the case fan I also reseated the RAM I am going to try the HDD in another machine...

I have a computer that won't boot, it starts and runs for about 1-2 seconds and shuts off. Sometimes if it runs longer I get a constant high low beep which I think indicates CPU, however if I remove the HDD it will start up and run until it shows no OS. If I change out the HDD I get the same...

Well I managed to come up with another processor that was the problem, must have fried when the PSU went.

I undertand what you are saying. When I say I am the local shop, I am, but a very small home based business with a small budget. I do have some spare video, sound, MOBO and processors just not the one I need for this project. I don't like to buy older processors and mobo's that I may never use...

Thanks for the reply Tony, I think I have done most of what you have suggested with the exception of removeing the motherboard and booting with it out of the case. As for buying the PSU I needed one on hand anyway but it is a generic not a Dell which from what I've read this Dell will work with...

Looks like I'm in a quandry as to what to do with this computer in appears the only way solve this is to either swap out the CPU or motherboard however being a Dell it is going to require a Motherboard from dell($140.00 for a reman), because the recovery disk will only work on that paticular...

I noticed that the HDD won't spin if the IDE cable is plugged in but if I unplug it the drive will spin, it's the same with both CD drives they won't open if the ribbon cable is plugged in but if unplugged they will open. Could this be MOBO related?

Just installed new psu still no POST or boot, nothing has changed. Could this be a CPU failure? How can you tell without swapping it out.

thanks for the quick reply. I did notice that the cd drives will open if they are not connected to the ribbon cable. I will get a power supply ordered. I had heard that Dell was proprietary on their psu's is that only on the older models? From what I have read this model will be ok with a...

I am working on a Dell Dimension 4600 Win XP pro. It will not boot or even POST, the CD doors won't open but the fan runs and the HDD spins. I scanned the HDD in another computer it is clean. Tried a differnt video card, removed all cards (modem sound even video) still won't boot or POST. How...

The floppy drive tested good, so I ruled out removal. I changed the cabling as follows: Original setup had HDD on one cable IDE 1 and CDRW on one cable IDE 2. Changed to HDD master and CDRW slave on IDE 1 and removed IDE 2 cable. Haven't heard back yet if it continues to boot correctly, it was...

thanks for the info, I will not be able to get to this until next week but I will try all the suggestions and get back here when I find out something.