PC broken, please help.

[Stone]

Hi,
When I turn the PC on fans are dead and no leds light up.
My power suply is 9 months old "Be Quiet 500W".

I took from my old PC an old 300w power suply. Now the fans blow, and leds light up, but the PC does not boot. (No picture, no sounds / clics from drives FDD/HD).

The mobo (MSI K7N2) has also a 4 pin AC connector for CPU. The old 300W power supply does not have this power adapter. Maybe this MOBO / CPU (AMD 2800xp) does not boot without that connection ?

Also i notice a chip on the mobo with a green label "FSB 400". The label is now brown in the midle, like it has been over heated?

So me thinks my Power AND mobo is kaput

I dont know if the power suply broke the mobo, or if the mobo broke the power suply. I suspect that the TV card has got a spike from the antenna, because my "digibox" (tivo?) also has broken, and the neighbours also has problems with their digiboxes.

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But now I need a new PC. The only thing that needs frame rates is AH2. So I thing this might be a great place to ask advice.

This is what I have:
- The 500W power suply has 3 years waranty, I hope I get it fixed.
- The mobo is probobly trash now
- CPU is AMD 2800xp. Is this still good ?
- RAM is 2 * 256M DDR400 DIMM 3-3-3. Is this usable?
- NVIDIA 5950 Ultra with 256 MB. AGP8x. Is this ancient history?
- 200GB IDE somthing disk 7200 RPM.
- SoundBlaster Audigity soundcard.

Is any of the above usable, if I want to make a good gameing PC? (AH2)

Or should I just buy a whole new system.

I have before built the computers my self, but I might want to buy a brand this time.

So any recomendations?

CPU?
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AMD or Intel ?
2x core or not?
Is a $200€ CPU much faster than my current? Maybe I should keep the old one ?

Video Card
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AGP or PCI-E  ?
Is the $150€ video cards much faster than my current?

RAM
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My 512MB RAM 3-3-3 is 2x256. Does that suck or what?


Any other recommendations?

What about a brand PC.
Dell ? HP ? What model ? I want decent frame rates


Thx for reading, and for any advice you can give me

ps.
I need a squad also.

[RTSigma]

Stone, I had this exact same problem. It turned out to be my video card taking up the ghost on me. It was believed to be the motherboard but when Dell came in and checked the machine, it was my "aftermarket" video card.


As for a new PC, always, always start with a new mobo. If you're looking for the long term, dual-core is the way to go, along with PCI-Xe video cards. Ram shouldn't be skimped since it is a major factor in AH2. Running at least a gig helps.

Depending on your budget, go to http://www.newegg.com and search around there. It will cost cheaper than a brand PC and the parts have their own individual guarantee's.


If you're looking for a squad I started a new one that needs members, my ID is the same as the boards

[Roscoroo]

The mobo (MSI K7N2) has also a 4 pin AC connector for CPU. The old 300W power supply does not have this power adapter. Maybe this MOBO / CPU (AMD 2800xp) does not boot without that connection ?

it wont boot if it has that p-4 connector on the board as for thats the power to the cpu .

a 300watt ps probely wont power it up anyway . (it wouldnt run my 2500+ 9600pro a7n8x-e machine at all )

[Stone]

Originally posted by Roscoroo
The mobo (MSI K7N2) has also a 4 pin AC connector for CPU. The old 300W power supply does not have this power adapter. Maybe this MOBO / CPU (AMD 2800xp) does not boot without that connection ?

it wont boot if it has that p-4 connector on the board as for thats the power to the cpu .

a 300watt ps probely wont power it up anyway . (it wouldnt run my 2500+ 9600pro a7n8x-e machine at all )

Oh, great news ! Then maybe my MOBO is not broken after all?
I am waiting to get a new power unit, hope the PC is ok

[Kev367th]

As he said, without the 4 pin socket providing power the mobo won't boot up, not even a peep.