Can't pwr Up!

Hello Islander. You are on the right track. Either the motherboard or slot is bad. Either way, you will have to replace the motherboard. I've seen this one a few times, but not familiar with your brand of mb. You probably have 2 working cpu's now.
kcmeister.

First before replacing the motherboard try unplugging everything but the cpu and the video, so you can see the monitor. Disconnect the floppy, cd, hardrive, but leave the cpu, memory (how much memory are you running?)and graphics adapter with monitor attached. reboot and see what happens. We want to get to a barebones configuration just to make sure the Power supply is not actually being overloaded with the full system setup. Those AMD processors are known power hogs! What is the wattage on your power supply? You should be running at least 350 watts. 300 may be fine but with the large hard drives and other stuff such as large memory bigger supplies are more reliable. What bus speed are you running and what speed memory are you using? the GA-71XE is not able to run the memory bus at speeds over 100MHz. So, if you plan on installing PC133 memory on this board, you'll have to run it at 100Mhz not the 133MHz it is able to. Can you get to system setup screen or is it totally dead at poweron? If you can then this motherboard has sensors to check voltages, temperatures and so on. Also from there if you can get there disable wake on lan. Make sure on back off the motherboard if you can see it, that the pins for the cpu socket are not touching to themselves or anything else. Did this board ever work?

Hi have you cleared the CMOS to reset the CPU settings to default this is assuming CPU setup is through the BIOS.

Rich

Replace the motherboard.

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