Could my CPU be dead?

I can't get my beloved beige to start up. The power supply comes on but no chime and the hard drive only makes a little noise before going quiet.
I have two drives in the computer. At first one drive was acting squirrelly. Then while trying to do maintenence, it wouldn't boot to it. Eventually I couldn't even get the 2nd drive to boot.
I've checked all the usuals. I got a new battery in case. all cards are seated. I hadn't been inside the box for a long time, so I'm sure I didn't move anything.
I worried at getting no chime.
Any ideas? Is my poor ol' tired, overclocked and overworked chip dead?
Al

Well, I actually raised my computer from the dead. But, things are still all messed up. I'm on my copy of 10.2 right now. It's been a long time since I used this OS. I just needed to take a break and get back online with my Apple before I continue on anymore.
I took all of my cards, memory, rom, and personality card out, and cleaned the contacts, and re- installed everything back to the way it was before it started acting up.
I got it booted and into a volume with OS 9. Then things start acting up again. I can't get anything to boot from CD. The OS 9 volume will give a warning that the disk is not readable, do I want to initialize...I cancel, wait a minute or so, and then the same box, but suggesting 134GB size instead of 4.3 like before. Cancel, wait a minute, then it boots into 9. My Panther volume shows as untitled. 2 other volumes on that disk show as unmounted. All of my volumes on this disk show up.
I'm going to try and launch Disk Warrior again but from this OS 10.2 volume.
My problem started with XPF. It won't synchronize. It says it's copying the mach_kernel, then stops with a dialog box saying could not complete your request because there was a problem copying the mach_kernel.... hmmm.
I used to be able to use XPF to boot right into Disk Warrior. Not now.
Any ideas?
At least I'm getting some clues now. And, at least I'm back on my beloved Mac again! even if it is in 10.2. It was only giving me the power supply and nothing else!? I'm not sure what fixed that part, but, I love it. This thing is like an old ford. Just keep tinkering with it. It ain't dead yet..!
I'm gonna try and get DW launched. If nothing else. I'll hook the PC up again later to see if I have any replies.
Thanks,
Allen

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Ok thanks for trying to help me but its not the HDD's. Its the motherboard or the cpu. I just dont know which one.
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Ok i just put my new stuff in yesterday (e6600 with a Zalman 9500 and a Spirit 2 on the northbridge) and my temps have bee reading really really low. I have also oced it to 3ghz. On a average doing normal computer stuff its running at 22-25c and i checked it after playing CSS for about a hour and it was at 27. I just really don't see how it could be this low. I'm wondering if somehow the sensors got damaged when i was installing my HSF?
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Be proud, very proud. What kinda case are you using? Plus ambient room temperature?
I have the Viper 2 from XG. http://techgage.com/article/xg_viper_2/ Don't know my room temp but i know its pretty cool in here. I have a window AC in my room and i keep my door shut all of the time so it stays really cool in here. The temp sensor for the case that just lays in there reads 20c. I just bought this little 12 dollar PCI slot fan thats blows air out of my case and it dropped my case temp by good 5c.
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wow.. what's your ambient temperature? what is your HDD temperature? what is the other temperature readings you've got? Is it also within 20-ish or 30-ish range?
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OK... rather than explaining again what's happened, can anyone have a quick scan at my thread at the AMD forums and maybe offer me any advice or suggestions? Basically, I think my CPU is dead, but I can't tell for sure just yet. Could it be the mobo?
Thank you in advance for any help. I really need to get to the bottom of this one because I am broke and can't really afford a new CPU, mobo, or both...
Here's the thread: http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=48642

It's OK, I got it working again. No amount of clearing CMOS and switching the jumper was working, but I followed some advice I found on this board about holding the Insert key as the system was powered on. It booted for the first time in 2 days! I'm happy now. Cheers for the help.

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After RMAing the board a couple weeks ago everything has been working great. I think you guys need to stop pointing at the power supply for every problem. Yeah, sometimes it's the problem, but it seems like every time somebody says they have a problem somebody responds with "it's your power supply". My power supply is only 350 watts with 15 amps on the 12v rail and it works fine. I'm going to get a 6800GT soon, I have a feeling the power supply won't be enough then. But just for the record, here's the specs again for my system, perfectly stable, with my weak power supply:
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How do I tell if it's mobo or cpu?

Hi,
My comp has decided to randomly die. I have a KT4 Ultra (Pure Version), and when it boots up, the D-LEDs indicate that the CPU is dead / not installed properly. I ordered a new CPU - identical XP2400+, in hopes that it was the cpu. The new one does not work either. Is there any chance that it could be the motherboard that has died? Or would the mobo not even start-up - i.e. cpu fan, northbridge fan, and D-LEDs still work.
Am I just unlucky when it comes to CPU's - as I'm already on my 3rd XP2400+ - both previous cpus were faulty!
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1.- I didn't mean hardware overcloking work; I meant some software or bios changing, a new program, a new hardware install...
2.- If D Leds and fans are working, there are less posibilities of a fault Mobo.
3.- Neither 420 W. nor high prices tells something about P.Su. quality. Tell Dif. Amps to 3.3v. 5v. 12v. and combined 3.5-5v.
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