Author Topic: New "guts" for a system. Advice please. (Read 470 times)

senna · « **Reply #15 on:** August 19, 2002, 04:15:17 PM »

Thanks for the info thorns however this is for sure an MB issue. With or without the hard disk installedd, I'll get a grey screen after POST so it has nothing to do with the OS. Thanks for info, perhaps it might help other with same similar problems.

senna · « **Reply #16 on:** August 19, 2002, 05:24:08 PM »

All though I do have to admit it, having a bad system SUCKs. Welp, once bitten, twice shy. I'm gona be more carefull about bying stuff on the Internet next time. Seemed like such a great deal, just that one electrical flaw on bootup. But then I was one of the first to get the 1.2AMD (preordered it months in advance) and MB when it came out.

Thorns · « **Reply #17 on:** August 19, 2002, 05:27:49 PM »

Bloom25,

Please read my above plea. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Thorns

eagl · « **Reply #18 on:** August 25, 2002, 04:49:20 PM »

Senna,

Open the computer and check the tops of the capacitors for any cruddy buildup. Around the cpu and power supply connector there will be a bunch of capacitors and the tops should be flat, clean shiny metal. If any are bulged out or have crud on top, they've blown.

I lost a mobo this way (ABIT SA6R) and there's nothing you can do to fix it short of trying to remove and resolder new capacitors on (not recommended).

If your capacitors are fine, then I dunno. The cheapest thing to try would be a new power supply, 300 watts minimum.

AdmRose · « **Reply #19 on:** August 26, 2002, 12:37:39 AM »

First of all, make sure your motherboard doesn't already have a sound card integrated. (I made this mistake, didn't matter as I only bought a $20 card anyway). Second, if you're buying a sound card, make sure its 32-bit as opposed to 24-bit...the sound difference is huge. Like I said, I bought a $20 32-bit card as opposed to an $85 24-bit card. Don't let all the ports and flashy boxes fool you, the bit rate is really all that matters when it comes to sound cards. Third, if you do have an integrated video/sound card on the motherboard, don't (and I repeat, don't) try to use it with Windows XP unless you know what you're doing. It is extremely touchy about multiple video/sound cards. You have to disable the integrated card and then uninstall all the software, drivers, etc. for it. This was a pain in the prettythang when I got my new ATI Radeon 7000 with my old Micron. XP didn't want to give up that old 2 MB factory integrated card. Needless to say, I now use Windows 98

BTW, here are the specs of my new system:

AMD Athlon XP 1.1Ghz
128 MB DDRAM
64MB ATI Radeon 7000
32-bit integrated sound card
Windows 98/XP dual boot
80GB HD partitioned to 4 20GB HD

One more thing (ok two): I'm having trouble with "ghost drives" on my Windows 98 OS, anyone know how to get rid of them?
And my USB Wingman Attack 2 will not work on 98. I tried downloading drivers from logitech.com but they didn't work. Any suggestions?

hardcase · « **Reply #20 on:** August 28, 2002, 11:39:12 PM »

Why are you buying 2700pc memory(333mhz) and putting on a mobo that only runs 200 and 266fsb speeds?

The Asus A7v333 runs the 2700pc memory.

hardcase