First post, by nd22
I encounter a problem recently that I never met before. I just purchased a batch of CPU's from Ebay and I can not get any of them to post. The processors are: Athlon XP3200, XP2800, Sempron 3300. I used several motherboards that are fully working: Abit AN7, KW7, NF7-S 2.0, NF7-S2G, KV7. With every other CPU that I have including another XP3200 they start just fine and pass Memtest but with these ones they only start, fans start spinning and NO BEEP, no display, absolutely nothing. I have a brand new power supply - Corsair - that is running just fine with my existing socket 462 system. The only variables on the bench are the processors - as soon as I put one of my old ones the system starts right away! Are they already dead or should I try something else?