MS-6330 Lite (K7T Turbo VER:3 and K7T Pro 2 VER:1) and Athlon 1800XP... no worky

OK so I have 3 motherboards that were given to me.

qty 2 of the MSI K7T Turbo ver:3 and one K7T Pro 2 ver:1

I bought a used Athlon 1800XP chip with the Palomino core to try them
out.

All the Boards seem to use the KT133a chipset

I have a single 256mb stick of Crucial PC133 CAS2 SDRAM for testing.

I've used a variety of Vid cards from various AGP to PCI cards

I can hit the soft power on and the CPU fans and power supply comes on
but none of the boards will post or give any video with this chip.

My question is: Does this chip need to be modded in some way to work
with these MSI boards? I read about unlocking them by connecting L1
bridges and doing wire tricks etc....

I've done some searching with Google to try and figure this out but
end up in forum links etc. but with no real details or how-to guide in
doing this stuff.

My test power supply is an Enhance 350 watt unit that has the
following ampage:

+3.3v - 28amps
+5v - 30 amps
+12v - 15 amps

I have no other components connected to the power supply. It's just
the mobo's and a Vid card on the test bench.

any help will be greatly appreciated

 

Yeah.... I don't have any LED's on any of the boards. They are the
MS-6330 Lite's. The heatsink does not seem to be getting warm at all.

Is there a way to check the VR's with a meter to see if they are bad?
I'm guessing they are the square things with 3 legs coming out one
side. There are 8 of them on the K7T Turbo board. Hell... the
regulators (if those are) are not even warm to the touch and I know
they are supposed to get hot.

I just bought the CPU today locally from a guy who has a bunch of
things from 4 systems he's parted out. He said it was tested and
seemed very meticulous in his work.

I'm going to mess with the boards some more, but it's weird they all
act the same way.

I may just grab one of these up the street from where I live:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-131-486&depa=0

that is after I have the CPU tested and see if it's good with my own
eyes.

 

What do the diag led's give
(are you sure the cpu is good?)
and also if the regulators are gone on the boards they will show a bad cpu
on the led's..
Feel the cpu's heatsink when the system is running.. Is it warm?.. If it's
COLD to touch then the VRegulators are gone..
If the cpu is warm and it's showing bad cpu then the cpu could be bad..
I wouldnt do any mod on the chip personally until I know that the board is
working.

 

The square bits with the pins on are the amps.. There is a flat surface
mount 16 pin chip near them..
http://www.syndrome-oc.net/img/articles/msivmod/ReperCI2.jpg

When the unit is on, then touch the top of that chip and see how hot it is..
make sure that your holding the case or something and dont press down on it
hard (just lightly touch it)..
It should be warm but not overly hot.. If it burns your finger then it's
gone..
If it's cold to the touch then the problem may be somewhere else (the cpu
just might not work in it, but I cant see that)

 

Ok... well this would explain it.... a pin is sheared off the bottom
of the CPU chip.... damn. I guess I just got Fu%#d out of $40

thanks for all the help eveyone