Okay, seems the second chip was bad. I put in a new chip and it started
right up no problem.
"Michael Brown" <> wrote in message
news:1129345848.59335b75522f3d4d212bec0044f9b753@t eranews...
>I have a few questions. Is it possible if I put the wrong CPU in a Solo
> 1450, that it will ruin the motherboard? The chip that came out of it was
> is a 1.33ghz 256 cache. It went bad...I'm assuming. I no longer have
> that
> chip. Anyway. I got a 1.13ghz 512 cache and put in it. The same thing
> happens,
> just the hard drive spins...no other lights come on except the
> power light. The LCD does not even light up. A friend has the same
> machine, so I borrowed hers and took the chip out of my machine (1.13 512
> cache)and put it in hers. I get the same result as I originally did with
> mine.
> I then put her chip in my machine (1.33 256 cache) and still get the same
> result. Well, at that point I decided to put her machine back together
> and
> get it back to her. Well, surprise, surprise! I now have two machines
> that
> now do the exact same thing...nothing! Could it have been that 512 cache
> chip that did it? Did it mess up the 1.33 256 cache ship? Does any of
> this
> make any sense? I have ordered a new chip for her machine. I'm just
> hoping
> I don't have to replace her motherboard.
> Oh and just to be sure I switched out the system memory, took out the
> drives, the modem just to be sure it was not something else and nothing
> changes.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> Michael
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