BTW, here's what I'm using...
Athlon 1200
Gigabyte GA-7DXC
Crucial PC1600 (256MB)
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BTW, here's what I'm using...
Athlon 1200
Gigabyte GA-7DXC
Crucial PC1600 (256MB)
Listen it is not your processor, I think it is the motherboard, try flashing your bios, usually if a cpu goes it does not act the way yuour comp is, it would give you a black screen, at least in my experiance, and not post or even half way boot. that is a new board, it can even be your video card causing the problems. try taking all cards out, reflash the bios, start it with only the graphics card, check there are no shorts
on the motherboard like a screw touching it. try a different power supply, if you dont have at least a great 300 watt supply it will do errors like this also check and make sure the power supply is doing its job, go into bios and see what the Volts are.
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750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz (going for the 1.1G)
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on
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Originally posted by Colt:
Listen it is not your processor, I think it is the motherboard, try flashing your bios, usually if a cpu goes it does not act the way yuour comp is, it would give you a black screen, at least in my experiance, and not post or even half way boot. that is a new board, it can even be your video card causing the problems. try taking all cards out, reflash the bios, start it with only the graphics card, check there are no shorts
on the motherboard like a screw touching it. try a different power supply, if you dont have at least a great 300 watt supply it will do errors like this also check and make sure the power supply is doing its job, go into bios and see what the Volts are.
Ok, I'll try all of those things tonight and let you know how it goes tomorrow...thanks for your help.
No problem, remember DDR is new and that was one of the first motherboards. I am sure it is something that is just missing like a bios adjustment (hopefully shure) I had a problem with my temp reading a constant 2C brought the board back got another it was fine, but it did not do what your is doing eother, so fine tune and do it one step at a time, first remove all cards except graphics then reflash and see if it boots, if it does not try another graphics card, also check that power supply, if it still does not boot then try another cpu, if that does not work its the motherboard
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750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz (going for the 1.1G)
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on
ahh didn't see the post when you said you could get into BIOS, if you can get there your CPU is okay. You can't POST without a CPU. so - try what colt said
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8 MHz Intel 8088 Processor
20MB IBM hard drive
PIM-TB10-Z 10 MHz Turbo Mainboard with 27256 ROM BASIC chip
MG-150 Monographics Card with parallel port
Samsung MD-1278G 12" monochrome monitor
Epson FX86E 9-pin dot matrix printer
Keytronics 101-key keyboard (Enhanced AT-style)
Well, I just removed everything, cleared the BIOS, and tried to boot with just power supply (300 Watt Fortron), Processor, Mem, and HD. Nothing. Just a black screen now. I think you are right about it being the motherboard, but I don't want to wait for my new motheboard to ship and find out it's my processor or ram. I just bought all this stuff, so maybe I should just return it and wait a week for Athlon-266 and Asus a7m, PC2100...or maybe I'll just get an A7V instead with SDR Memory. Is there THAT much of a difference?Quote:
Originally posted by nzer:
ahh didn't see the post when you said you could get into BIOS, if you can get there your CPU is okay. You can't POST without a CPU. so - try what colt said
Well, I just removed everything, cleared the BIOS, and tried to boot with just power supply (300 Watt Fortron), Processor, Mem, and HD. Nothing. Just a black screen now. I think you are right about it being the motherboard, but I don't want to wait for my new motheboard to ship and find out it's my processor or ram because those warranties will expire soon. I just bought all this stuff, so maybe I should just return it and wait a week for Athlon-266 and Asus a7m, PC2100...or maybe I'll just get an A7V instead with SDR Memory. Is there THAT much of a difference?Quote:
Originally posted by nzer:
ahh didn't see the post when you said you could get into BIOS, if you can get there your CPU is okay. You can't POST without a CPU. so - try what colt said
Woooo dude you need that HD memory cpu and graphics card, think about it without memory and hd and cpu its like cutting your spinal colum of course nothing will work, remove only whats in the pci slots and keep everything else including your graphics card. and when you say reflashed your bios what do you mean?? I mean download the latest version and install that, or even the current version and install that. if you are not sure how to do this dont, just clear the cmos and set the comp to factory specs. then try to boot. never jump to conclusions, I am only telling you what to do by what you tell me so have patience, it could be one of allot odf things. Was everything working okay previuosly or did you buy this put it together and it did not work?????
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750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz (going for the 1.1G)
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on
AMD Recommends an Antec...I don't see anything about silver goop either. Take the Antec out, peel of the tape from the "thermal compound",snap into place, plug it in, and don't read too many forums.
All that you have done till now is useless cause you've had too many unnecessary components. Here is how to troubleshoot - remove everything and put only these 6 things back in the comp - 1) Motherboard, 2) CPU, 3) CPU fan, 4) RAM, 5) Video Card, 6) Floppy Drive and cable.
Dont even put in your Hard Drive. Remove your IDE cables. It should POST without a HDD. Get a bootable floppy for DOS (Win95 or Win98, but not Win2K). Stick it in. Hit the start button. If it POSTS, your CPU isnt dead. Get into the BIOS, load default settings and see if the comp boots thru the floppy. Do this 3-4 times (try both cold boots and warm boots) so you're sure it boots reliably.
Then start putting in Hard drives and all the rest of the stuff.
If it doesnt POST - listen to the beep code. It may be the M/b or RAm thats flaky.
It it doesnt boot - check your floppy drive, floppy cable and floppy disk in another comp.
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Duron 700@850 (1.71v), K7TPro2A, Geforce2 MX, 128MB
[This message has been edited by bluesfusion (edited February 03, 2001).]
Well, I wasn't trying to jump conclusions, I'm just really frustrated right now. I did have the HD and Mem connected when I tried. Here's what I bought last week...
Athlon 1200
Thermaltake superorb
Gigabyte GA-7DXC
256 MB Crucial PC1600 CAS2
46.1 GB IBM Deskstar HD
Elsa Gladiac Ultra
Sony CPD-E500
SB Live Platinum
ATI TV Wonder
Pioneer 16X DVD
Plextor 12/10/32
So, I've been working on getting this thing together for about a week and a half now and I had it working as of 2 nights ago when I realized how high the temp was. I've been having problems with the stability of the system, so I was real careful when taking off the heatsink and made sure not to touch anything other than the HSF/Processor. Now, it's to a point where I get nothing but a black screen when I boot, so I'm just so tired of it. I think I'm going to spend tomorrow working on it, but if that doesn't work, I'm probably just going to return the parts and order new ones. It's not that big a deal, I just want the thing to work and to find an easy solution, which might be returns....thanks for your help, I'll let you know what happens tomorrow
lol That thermal tape is the worst thing you can use< arctic silver way to go,there are more than antec that they recomend.Quote:
Originally posted by StabilityLover:
AMD Recommends an Antec...I don't see anything about silver goop either. Take the Antec out, peel of the tape from the "thermal compound",snap into place, plug it in, and don't read too many forums.
You need to sit back and read this forum before you give advise. Or at least know all the facts. Do you even know what is going on with his comp?? If you did you would not have said anything.;
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750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz (going for the 1.1G)
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on
Good luck, I was saying have patience with me, I know how fustrating this can be, If you bought the parts locally then hell ya bring them back and have them test them for you.Quote:
Originally posted by msu2000:
Well, I wasn't trying to jump conclusions, I'm just really frustrated right now. I did have the HD and Mem connected when I tried. Here's what I bought last week...
Athlon 1200
Thermaltake superorb
Gigabyte GA-7DXC
256 MB Crucial PC1600 CAS2
46.1 GB IBM Deskstar HD
Elsa Gladiac Ultra
Sony CPD-E500
SB Live Platinum
ATI TV Wonder
Pioneer 16X DVD
Plextor 12/10/32
So, I've been working on getting this thing together for about a week and a half now and I had it working as of 2 nights ago when I realized how high the temp was. I've been having problems with the stability of the system, so I was real careful when taking off the heatsink and made sure not to touch anything other than the HSF/Processor. Now, it's to a point where I get nothing but a black screen when I boot, so I'm just so tired of it. I think I'm going to spend tomorrow working on it, but if that doesn't work, I'm probably just going to return the parts and order new ones. It's not that big a deal, I just want the thing to work and to find an easy solution, which might be returns....thanks for your help, I'll let you know what happens tomorrow
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750 Athlon Classic O\C to 1090MHz (going for the 1.1G)
Water cooled pelts
Abit KA7-100
256MB Micron Running at 133MHz cas 2
Voodoo5 5500
Kenwood 72x
Sound Blaster Live Gamer
Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Digital Speaker System
Yamaha 8\4\24 Burner
And the list goes on