[LUNA] [OT] hardware question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... I bought 2 mATX SuperMicro socket C32 boards for new builds. *Both* 
refuse to POST/boot. Dead silence, no beeps, no fans whirring up, 
*nada*. PSU checks out AOK w/ tester. Upon recommendation from 
SuperMicro tech support, I removed mbd from case & hooked up just PSU 
24-pin, PSU 8-pin & CPU fan plug & shorted the power-on header. *Nada*. 
Question: Can a bad CPU cause this ? I tried 2 different CPUs, same 
story, but both were/are Ebay purchases, supposedly good, from reputable 
sellers, but I haven't (& can't, AFAIK) tested  them by themselves .... 
TIA & have a good one.


BTW, the boxen will both be running either Linux or NetBSD, just to make 
it sorta near topic ;-) ....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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