'new' pentium 75 mobo/proc

[Stuart]

My buddy gave me a pentium 75 machine, not knowing if it works. So I stuck an Mach64 Card in, and turned er on.. nothing. the power supply is fine, I reset the cmos settings(I love that jumper) but it still dont do dick all.. any ideas?

[pbharris]

got any beeps coming from it?

[Stuart]

Nope, only a grinding sound coming seemingly from the power supply

[pbharris]

i assume ya tried with just the vid card and memory install - right?

[Stuart]

yep, just popped in another power supply.. argh.. Think its a fried mobo?

[Compunuts]

Or may be a fried processor. Do you have another processor to test it out?

[Schotty]

The thing that screams at me is the lack of the mainboard beeps. Check to see if there is a buzzer connected to the board. You want to have one connected. Steal one from another machine if necessary. The beeps will generate a sort of code (long/short, kinda like morse code) and that will tell you a number. You can then reference it to whoever made your chipsets (Intel/VIA/ALi) and figure out what is causing the PC from POSTing.

[l33tslack3r]

man we might have to dig thru my mound of computer stuff again. theres gotta be another board or chip in there somewhere

[Stuart]

yea, we gotta do that. maybe on the weekend(??)...dude.. that DX-4 is a beast eh?

[thpook]

pentium 75?

Did you check the battery? That box is old enough for that (that being the cmos battery to die) to happen.

-Kit