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I bought a used CPU (Athlon 1gb) and it won't boot. It is not fried and the guy said that it had no problem with it.

But one thing i noticed when i recieved it, is that it had a lot of thermal grease spread on it. I cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol and apllied new grease, but it won't boot. It does the same thing as when i tried to apply too much pencil on my Duron to overclock it. But it doesn't look like it has been overclocked because i don't see any pencil trace on it.

So can someone tell me what should i use too clean it better if it's the problem??? What do you think?

Thanks for any response

The Scud

clear the cmos?

Greg

doubt that thermal grease would keep it from booting, but rubbing alcohol gets that stuff off fine, iif its a 100 fsb make sure you don't have the mobo set to 133

I cleared CCmos a couple of times and it still doesn't work... Does the cpu surface can be damaged from appiying grease cleaning with alcohol, applying grease again, cleaning with alcohol....etc?

It's a 200fsb and my board doesn't support 266fsb. So it should work!!!???!!!

Thanks again

You said it doesn't boot, do the fans and any lights come on at all?

Some suggestions, check the mobo manual to be sure all jumpers are set right. Then if no go reseat the video card and ram. And of course be sure the connection is right going from the switch to the mobo.

The fans start, lights are flashing as usual, i hear harddrive spinning but my monitor won't quit the sleep mode and it stays like that until i push the power switch off.

If i change the Cpu (my old Duron) and everythings is OK!!!

Thanks anyway

sounds to me like the CPU then isn't any good if you can pop in the duron and have everything be ok