First post, by Elia1995
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Hi, recently I got my hands on two motherboards that I've loved when I was a kid.
One straight out of probably my first ever PC: an Abit NF7 with a Socket A AMD Athlon XP (I presume, the text is quite off, but it's an Athlon for sure), and another motherboard which is an Asus (as always, the model is written NOWHERE, but it's an Asus because it's written very clearly on an heatsink on the mobo) with an Intel Pentium 4, I don't know yet which socket, but it's smaller than other processors I own and it is written Pentium 4 on it.
The problem I have with these two is that none of them turn on... the Abit NF7 doesn't have any LED to verify if the PSU gives it enough power, while the Pentium 4 Asus motherboard has a LED which always stays on, but it doesn't start.
I tried to "jump start" them with the classic screwdriver trick, but nope, they're both dead... now I don't know whether are the processors to be dead or the motherboards, seeing that the Asus has this LED that turns on when I give it power, I think it's the Pentium 4 CPU which is dead, but I don't know how to tell.
Is there some testing I can do to verify if the processors are still working or they're dead ? And no, I don't have any other Socket A motherboard or Pentium 4 to test them on something else... what do you think ?
I wish I can restore at least one of them, because they're the last two motherboards I have with an AGP slot...
I'll provide some photos as soon as I can.
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard