chrispaterson82
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Hi,
I'm stumped. I'm trying to fix my mom's computer that she bought on Ebay (oops, I didn't tell her not to do that). It was not booting to bios and would beep constantly. I figured I would just replace the Motherboard. I bought a new Mobo from Fry's (Gigabyte M61PME-S2P). I installed the motherboard and when I attempted to turn on the computer, it shuts off in under a second. All lights go on and fans start then shuts off immediately. In the process I thought maybe the CPU was faulty so I made another trip back to Fry's and picked one up (AMD Athlon II X2 250). It didn't fix the issue. The interesting thing is, if I remove the processor it runs fine without shutting off. Please HELP!!
SYSTEM SPECS:
Gigabyte M61PME-S2P
AMD Athlon II X2 250
2x DDRII 667 1GB ram (2GB total)
Western Digital 320GB harddrive
PROBLEM:
Computer shuts down immediately.
TRIED:
replacing CPU - didn't work
Unplugging DVD +/- RW - didn't work
Unplugging Hard drive - didn't work
Removing CPU - works
I'm stumped. I'm trying to fix my mom's computer that she bought on Ebay (oops, I didn't tell her not to do that). It was not booting to bios and would beep constantly. I figured I would just replace the Motherboard. I bought a new Mobo from Fry's (Gigabyte M61PME-S2P). I installed the motherboard and when I attempted to turn on the computer, it shuts off in under a second. All lights go on and fans start then shuts off immediately. In the process I thought maybe the CPU was faulty so I made another trip back to Fry's and picked one up (AMD Athlon II X2 250). It didn't fix the issue. The interesting thing is, if I remove the processor it runs fine without shutting off. Please HELP!!
SYSTEM SPECS:
Gigabyte M61PME-S2P
AMD Athlon II X2 250
2x DDRII 667 1GB ram (2GB total)
Western Digital 320GB harddrive
PROBLEM:
Computer shuts down immediately.
TRIED:
replacing CPU - didn't work
Unplugging DVD +/- RW - didn't work
Unplugging Hard drive - didn't work
Removing CPU - works