cpu problem?

Question

i had a small form barebone, running intel socket 478. it stopped turning on last week, i was pretty sure it was the power supply. No fan, would turn off as it tried to start...

so i got another sff barebone off ebay. I put the ram, cpu, hd
from the old into the "used" ebay sff.

Now when i try to boot, it turns on, turns off, the first couple of times i got this pink/green screen and powered down.

Now it just fires up and turns off after beeping once. I was checking the bios beep code...looks like it just the "attempt to boot" standard beep.

Anyways...is this a problem with my cpu all along? does the pink screen mean i got a bad video card on the new system?

help!!!!

thanks!

Answer 1

Try clearing CMOS. If PC displays POST, go to BIOS menu and load fail safe defaults, save and exit.

Otherwise try a bare set up. No FDD, HDD, CD and RAM. You should get the repeating beeps (endless loop) for memory error. Beeping indicates processor and motherboard are working (detect the error and produce the beeps).
Install one stick RAM. This set up should post and be able to open BIOS menu. If no display, the problem could be with the graphics card or the graphics port. If PC displays POST and BIOS menu, problem could be with one of the detached devices.

Answer 2

You might want to check your capacitors. Look at all of them on your motherboard. The tops of them should be absolutely flat. If the top is puffed, or if nasty brown fluid is coming out of the top or bottom then you have bad capacitors.

Other than that, it sounds like a component has failed, or is installed incorrectly. Try booting with just the motherboard, CPU, and RAM (and video card if you don't have onboard).