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Question : Problem: Gigabyte vt-600 beep code? CPU dead or Bad MB sensor?
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I'll be honest, I did something that may have been bad. :) I took my Gigabyte vt-600 motherboard, put a athlon xp 2800 in it, and used ultra silver thermal adhesive to install the original heatsink.
I booted up and it booted fine, I started the OS install, and I heard a continuously alternating beep (high and low frequencies) from the MB speaker, and the system shut down. I assume it was a overheating beep code. I let it cool, and I booted to bios to see the temps/fan speeds. the cpu temp hit 80 C and i shut down fast.
Now, I believe I used too much thermal paste. So I re-installed the heatsink to the cpu. Now when i try to boot all I get is the alternating beep code from the time power hits and it shuts down immediately. Is there a way to figure out whether the cpu is actually dead or if it burned out a temperature sensor? (without other cpu's/MB's for testing) I can take the cpu out and power the motherboard and it seems like it will post (though I can't see anything on the screen)
Do I have to replace the CPU, the MB, both, or neither? It seems to me either the CPU has a sensor that reads the temp and it's stuck reading too much.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Answer : Problem: Gigabyte vt-600 beep code? CPU dead or Bad MB sensor?
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