First off let me say that I am very new to computer building. Do not have much experience or knowledge. I am mechanically minded so puting things together does come natural. However computers are very new to me.
Well this is the issue. About 2 yrs ago I purchased a bare bones kit from Tiger Direct. The case, power supply and memory are Ultra. The processor is Pentium D. The Mother board is MSI. Right off the bat when assembled, it would not power up at all. Exchanged the power supply and mother board. Has been working great until about two weeks ago. The power supply fan went out and the power supply went out. Ultra replaced it due to being under Warranty. I installed the new power supply but computer would not come on. Since the mother board is out of warranty I replaced it with a new ECS board using my same processor and memory. I did check to see that everything was compatable.
The mother board is a ECS P4M900T-M2 775 socket. The processor is a Pentium D. The memory is Ultra DDR2 PC4200 533MHZ.
I now have two issues I do not know how to fix. The first is that sometimes when I start the computer it starts loading windows and hangs up. The mouse and key board will not respond. I then removed the A drive and tried it again with the same problem. I went down the line until I had removed the modem and the cd rom. Now with nothing installed on the mother board it seems to be working. I reinstalled the cd rom and attempted to load the drivers that came with the mother board. It hung up again. I restarted the computer and connected to the internet. Then I got a message from Microsoft that my copy of windowos needed to be revalidated within 3 days because of new equipment being installed. While checking my e-mail windows shut down and it took me to an error page. I did not write down the error information (bad move) and when I tried to restart my computer it said that windows must be reactivated before signing on. At this point I can not do anything until I activate windows. I do not want to activate windows until I know for sure that I have a good mother board.
I guess what I am asking is, is the mother board or power supply bad? I hate to just guess and send somthing back that I don't have to. Any help you guys or gals can give would be greatly appreciated.
Well this is the issue. About 2 yrs ago I purchased a bare bones kit from Tiger Direct. The case, power supply and memory are Ultra. The processor is Pentium D. The Mother board is MSI. Right off the bat when assembled, it would not power up at all. Exchanged the power supply and mother board. Has been working great until about two weeks ago. The power supply fan went out and the power supply went out. Ultra replaced it due to being under Warranty. I installed the new power supply but computer would not come on. Since the mother board is out of warranty I replaced it with a new ECS board using my same processor and memory. I did check to see that everything was compatable.
The mother board is a ECS P4M900T-M2 775 socket. The processor is a Pentium D. The memory is Ultra DDR2 PC4200 533MHZ.
I now have two issues I do not know how to fix. The first is that sometimes when I start the computer it starts loading windows and hangs up. The mouse and key board will not respond. I then removed the A drive and tried it again with the same problem. I went down the line until I had removed the modem and the cd rom. Now with nothing installed on the mother board it seems to be working. I reinstalled the cd rom and attempted to load the drivers that came with the mother board. It hung up again. I restarted the computer and connected to the internet. Then I got a message from Microsoft that my copy of windowos needed to be revalidated within 3 days because of new equipment being installed. While checking my e-mail windows shut down and it took me to an error page. I did not write down the error information (bad move) and when I tried to restart my computer it said that windows must be reactivated before signing on. At this point I can not do anything until I activate windows. I do not want to activate windows until I know for sure that I have a good mother board.
I guess what I am asking is, is the mother board or power supply bad? I hate to just guess and send somthing back that I don't have to. Any help you guys or gals can give would be greatly appreciated.
