I've offered to do a cheap repair of a neighbour's old basic desktop which got trashed by lightening. I bought a 'New', as in old stock, still sealed in the box, combo of an Intel 910GWGL board and a Celeron D 352, 3.2GHz CPU for pocket money prices on that well known web trading site, but can't get the system to go through POST. Board lights are illuminated, CPU fan spins, KB flashes when plugged in and the hard disk spins up, but never does any read/wright. I suspect the MB rather than the CPU because as far as I understand the POST and BIOS should come up with error messages even before the CPU initialises, am I right? The CPU also never warms up also making me suspicious that it is never initialised. If I try and boot with no RAM installed I don't get any warning beeps, so I suspect that the POST/BIOS install isn't even getting that far. A VGA plugged in to the on-board video goes out of standby but never shows anything. I've reset the CMOS by removing the battery. Am I right in suspecting the MB rather than the CPU or am I doing something stupid? The board was, from what I can see, specifically designed for the Celeron D. The PSU is brand new.
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