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by clydet

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I installed rebuilt a Pentium II 233 which over clocked to 333. after swaping out the cables for the hard drive and cd rom to make my harddrive primary and cd-rom secondary the computer would not turn on. It was the other way around which caused me to respond to a harddrive failure with a f1 during boot. which it then continued to load win 98. Now I can't get the pc to power on at all.
Oh btw the mother board was under water at one time..Does this problem sound like its a bad mother board? Itshas a ATX power supply.
That was new. I replaced it. The other one was shot. I might end up replacing the whole thing cept the case.....let me know..thanks...

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by dmiles

Check the Power Supply connections
Check the cables on the motherboard and the connectors to the hard drive and cd-rom
Boot the computer and enter the CMOS panel to the bios and set the configuration to boot from hard drive first
When booting thecomputer listen to hear the fans to the power supply and the cpu are operating
In overclocking the process may have burned out the cpu and this would render the system to go dead also
You have a few things listed that may be better to start from scratch if you cannot iron out the problems

by mike (from canada)

get a new motherboard.
Water conducts electricity. Try turning the PC on in the water and it will blow up. and if the computer is not COMPLETELY dry, then dry it first. You could try using a blow dryer set to the "Cool setting" and try drying the motherboard that way.

by unclegarbage

I would buy a new mother board or whole new computer and scrap that one. Even after you dry the computer out it does not take much at all to fry it. If it is not placed in the case the right way and any other the leads on the back of the board are connected to each other by sitting on the case it will fry. I would say the water is the killer in this case. Just a small amout will cause a short.

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