Motherboard or processor?

[Beau]

Here's my dilemma. My computer is not recognizing amy of
the drives. I know it's not the hard drive. the ram or the
power supply so it has to be either the motherboard or
the processer. Unfortunately I brain dead when it comes to
motherboards. So I brought it to a computer repair place
to find out. The guy calls me and confirms that it is
indeed one or the other. So I ask him if the processer is
integrated with the board or interchangable. So he says
it's interchangable but if it's the motherboard chances
are it'll just blow out any new processer that we put in.
So I asked him how do you find out which one it is? and he
said you don't, you have to replace them both. It's only
going to be about $300.00 and will be upgrading my
processer by about 1100 Mhz. which is cool but I'm just
wondering if this guy's on the level. Is there a way to
find out which is the problem? Like I said I'm pretty
clueless when it comes to motherboards. Heck I don't even
know what a processor looks like.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Thank You

Beau

[Rick T]

"Beau" > wrote in news:136b01c4ffe4
:

> Here's my dilemma. My computer is not recognizing amy of
> the drives. I know it's not the hard drive. the ram or the
> power supply so it has to be either the motherboard or
> the processer.

None? Including the floppy drives ? No, wait, I read some of your previous
postings on the matter.

So now both green and red lights come on but your BIOS doesn't recognize
the hard-drive or the CD drive?

When you power up does the hard drive spin up and does the amber LED flash
a little on the CD drive ?

You should switch out the IDE cables with another, and if you have a
multimeter, check the PS output and the drive power cable voltages.

As far as the tech-guy is concerned sounds like a little white lie;
normally if you're upgrading either a MB or a proc after a generation or
two, you'd do both at the same time.


Rick


> Unfortunately I brain dead when it comes to
> motherboards. So I brought it to a computer repair place
> to find out. The guy calls me and confirms that it is
> indeed one or the other. So I ask him if the processer is
> integrated with the board or interchangable. So he says
> it's interchangable but if it's the motherboard chances
> are it'll just blow out any new processer that we put in.
> So I asked him how do you find out which one it is? and he
> said you don't, you have to replace them both. It's only
> going to be about $300.00 and will be upgrading my
> processer by about 1100 Mhz. which is cool but I'm just
> wondering if this guy's on the level. Is there a way to
> find out which is the problem? Like I said I'm pretty
> clueless when it comes to motherboards. Heck I don't even
> know what a processor looks like.

[Beau]

>-----Original Message-----
>"Beau" > wrote in
news:136b01c4ffe4
:
>
>> Here's my dilemma. My computer is not recognizing amy
of
>> the drives. I know it's not the hard drive. the ram or
the
>> power supply so it has to be either the motherboard or
>> the processer.
>
>None? Including the floppy drives ? No, wait, I read
some of your previous
>postings on the matter.
>
>So now both green and red lights come on but your BIOS
doesn't recognize
>the hard-drive or the CD drive?

Correct
>
>When you power up does the hard drive spin up and does
the amber LED flash
>a little on the CD drive ?

No not at all. Both the red light and the green light
stay solid and the cd rom doesn't go on or flash
>
>You should switch out the IDE cables with another, and
if you have a
>multimeter, check the PS output and the drive power
cable voltages.
>
>As far as the tech-guy is concerned sounds like a little
white lie;
>normally if you're upgrading either a MB or a proc after
a generation or
>two, you'd do both at the same time.
>
>
>Rick
>
>
>> Unfortunately I brain dead when it comes to
>> motherboards. So I brought it to a computer repair
place
>> to find out. The guy calls me and confirms that it is
>> indeed one or the other. So I ask him if the processer
is
>> integrated with the board or interchangable. So he
says
>> it's interchangable but if it's the motherboard
chances
>> are it'll just blow out any new processer that we put
in.
>> So I asked him how do you find out which one it is?
and he
>> said you don't, you have to replace them both. It's
only
>> going to be about $300.00 and will be upgrading my
>> processer by about 1100 Mhz. which is cool but I'm
just
>> wondering if this guy's on the level. Is there a way
to
>> find out which is the problem? Like I said I'm pretty
>> clueless when it comes to motherboards. Heck I don't
even
>> know what a processor looks like.
>.
>

[Rick T]

Could you adjust your newsreader/writer for 76-80 col per line? And/or use
any "Rewrap" options, thanks.

If your hard-drive isn't spinning up and the light isn't flashing on the CD
drive when you turn the machine on, it's (still) the power supply.


Rick

[Rick T]

<sigh> ignore the comment about column widths/rewrap... guess the CDO
hasn't improved *that* much

Rick

>-----Original Message-----
>Could you adjust your newsreader/writer for 76-80 col
per line? And/or use
>any "Rewrap" options, thanks.
>
>If your hard-drive isn't spinning up and the light isn't
flashing on the CD
>drive when you turn the machine on, it's (still) the
power supply.

That's what I thought so I bought a brand new one and
still the same problem :-(
>
>
>Rick
>
>
>.
>

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> <sigh> ignore the comment about column widths/rewrap... guess the CDO
> hasn't improved *that* much
>
> Rick

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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Could you adjust your newsreader/writer for 76-80 col
> per line? And/or use
> >any "Rewrap" options, thanks.
> >
> >If your hard-drive isn't spinning up and the light isn't
> flashing on the CD
> >drive when you turn the machine on, it's (still) the
> power supply.
>
> That's what I thought so I bought a brand new one and
> still the same problem :-(
> >
> >
> >Rick
> >
> >
> >.
> >