System hangs before POSTing; a long chain of events that's left me baffled.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > System hangs before POSTing; a long chain of events that's left me baffled.

Pill Clinton: Jun 4, 2006; Feast for thought

You tried everything which I would have tried. No post issue usually are caused by CPU or motherboard failure or incorrect installation of CPU. You seemed to eliminate the motherboard one.

Can you borrow a compatible CPU from someone to test it out? Bring the system to a PC repair shop and ask for a compatible CPU to run a test?

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Pill Clinton: Jun 4, 2006; Feast for thought

If a CPU was going bad, you would not get a BSOD (I think). Because BSOD requires the CPU to be working while the blue screen is going. An overheating CPU will get you BSOD, because at that point the CPU is still operational (the problem here is the heat).

If the new CPU is not going to help, then both of your motherboards might be bad. I am saying that you cannot, yet, rule out the chance that the secondhand mobo is also bad.

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