I just wanted to get some opinions here. We recently purchased an ABit BD7-M, 256MB PC2100 ddr ram, and a P4 1.6GHz cpu (sock 478).
I installed everything, as normal, and it wouldn't do anything. Well we had another motherboard of the same so we tried it, no luck. Tried different video cards, RAM, power supplies, and motherboards to no avail. The only thing we didn't have a 2nd of is the CPU. (by the way, the P/S is P4 compatible)
So then on the last try on one of the motherboards I turned it on and heard a SNAP! and got the familiar burnt electronics smell. It burned up the chipset under the large heatsink next to the cpu (northbridge?).
The weird thing is the motherboard has 4 lights, one for power, reset, HD, and something else. Anyways the reset light always stays on, on both motherboards. Manual says it should only come on when you reset the machine.
Not sure, but we don't get the 2nd cpu until monday. Would a bad CPU cause all this? We received no beeps from the speaker and the cpu didn't get hot like they normally do when they're broke. I don't know, it's got me stumped.
Any input would be great
Thanks,
demoniac
I installed everything, as normal, and it wouldn't do anything. Well we had another motherboard of the same so we tried it, no luck. Tried different video cards, RAM, power supplies, and motherboards to no avail. The only thing we didn't have a 2nd of is the CPU. (by the way, the P/S is P4 compatible)
So then on the last try on one of the motherboards I turned it on and heard a SNAP! and got the familiar burnt electronics smell. It burned up the chipset under the large heatsink next to the cpu (northbridge?).
The weird thing is the motherboard has 4 lights, one for power, reset, HD, and something else. Anyways the reset light always stays on, on both motherboards. Manual says it should only come on when you reset the machine.
Not sure, but we don't get the 2nd cpu until monday. Would a bad CPU cause all this? We received no beeps from the speaker and the cpu didn't get hot like they normally do when they're broke. I don't know, it's got me stumped.
Any input would be great

Thanks,
demoniac