My computer had a couple of upgrades on my sis 661-mx, new ram, upgraded to xp pro, changed celeron d 325 to a pentium 4 prescott with HT. all was going fine till I installed some spyware detectors and they TOLD me to restart my system. Well after I did it ran fine, the next morning my blower was MAKING noise, toke it out and turned the computer on, the bios that says the energy star such and such then it goes to Detecting Pentium Processor 2.6 and then NOTHING goes no further, nothing works, it just stops. now I tried the power supply, took out the sound blaster, the agp card, disconected the hardrives and the same, took out each stick of ram, no beeps just nothing after detecting cpu, I even tried puttin the old celeron back, detects that and then also nothing, do you think the motherboard just died. I ordered a new one from new egg an biostar type like my sis, just a lil different.Possible the motherboard just died, but interesting that it didn't happen until you made your changes and upgrades. Did you make all these changes at the same time?

I know it is time consuming, but try to take your changes in steps, please. For example, change some hardware and then boot to make sure all is well, and then make software changes. Are you sure the board was rated for the type of processor you installed?well the ram was done like over a month ago and the processor last week
the manual said it could take a p4/celeron d/celeron from 1.5 and up.
never said anything about only certain types. just wierd that it happened when everything was going ok till the blower was making noise then toom it out then this happened.well I wanted to get a new computer but the way things are its just not in the budget, I have a 2.61 p4 presscott cpu, 1.5 gig mem at pc400 250 gig hardrive and a 160 usb hardrive, ati 1650 pro 512 mb. so itll be hard to get all new. Quote from: travismontana on September 24, 2008, 09:13:35 AM

well I wanted to get a new computer but the way things are its just not in the budget, I have a 2.61 p4 presscott cpu, 1.5 gig mem at pc400 250 gig hardrive and a 160 usb hardrive, ati 1650 pro 512 mb. so itll be hard to get all new.

well the ram was done like over a month ago and the processor last week
the manual said it could take a p4/celeron d/celeron from 1.5 and up.
never said anything about only certain types. just wierd that it happened when everything was going ok till the blower was making noise then toom it out then this happened.