Well it looks like I need some advice.
I have made a few computers over the past year, most of which have been athlon xp’s, this time I am making a computer for my father. Just last year I canablazed my old althon xp computer to add some parts to my new computer I happened to be working on at the time, I took the cd burner, and the hard drive, and threw it into my new gaming machine.
For a while afterwards I just left the shell of what once was a fully functioning computer sitting there. I began making computers for my relatives later that year, the first would be for my aunt. I purchased:
Athlon XP 2600+
512 MB Kingston DDR 400
80 GB hard drive
CD burner
Case and power supply
Windows xp Pro
Nvidia 5200 FX
ECS Motherboard (I don’t remember the model, it was purple though)
When the items I had purchased arrived I quickly put everything together. Unplugged my computer from my monitor stuck it into my aunts computer, turned it on, and saw the bios come up. I turned off the system too plug up my keyboard, and pressed the power button again. The screen was blank. While I never did get the motherboard or that processor to post again, it became the source of much frustration for me over the next few weeks and still is to this day.
I took the computer to a local shop, they informed me that the motherboard was likely dead. So I packaged up the motherboard sent it back to the vender in CA, the man running the online store was very polite with me, an and answered all my questions. Once he received the motherboard he informed me much to my surprise that the motherboard worked.
I couldn’t believe it, he exclaimed that I should try a different power supply, and that should get ram with faster CL. The motherboard supposedly supported ram with timings of 2.5 not 3 like my Kingston ram. I obliged, I tried a different power supply, same problem. Bought new ram off of new egg that he had suggested, 512 Geil 2.5 CL RAM. Still nothing, instead of trying to email him again, like I should have, my aunt needed her computer, and it had been 4 weeks now. Out off desperation, I took the motherboard out of my old cannibalized computer, including the cpu (because they were practically the same) and put it together with the Geil Ram, and gave it to her that way.
She was happy with her computer, but I was out 150 dollars now, and had a bad motherboard to do nothing with.
My dad later expressed interest in a computer I thought this would be a good way to get rid of parts laying around. I bought a New ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard, took the ECS out and put my CPU in with, my old Kingston ram, and threw together. This time I couldn’t even get the system to power on.
I went beyond frustration now, I thought I had past my newbie stages of computer building, I had done everything right, all the switches were plugged up right, the power supply worked, the system didn’t power up at all. I took it to the same local shop, they tested to make sure the board wasn’t shorting out or anything, tested all the components (supposedly) and told me again I had a bad motherboard. I was furious, I had made sure I didn’t get any static on it. I emailed the vender, this time no one answered, I order yet another motherboard, this time I used a ASRock K7VT4A PRO and
put it together, still wouldn’t power on. I decided to try the ECS again, I could get this one to power on but it wouldn’t post still, I took the CPU out of my new motherboard, and turned on the switch. The fans and lights turned on.
This meant the cpu the whole time had been the culprit, I bought a new cpu, the same athlon xp 2600+. Put in the new motherboard, the system powered up, but the screen was blank, tried 2 different video cards that I know that worked, tried a different set of Kingston Ram, that I new worked. Still nothing.
Put the CPU in the ASUS Motherboard, this time it powered up but then for some reason just shut off in a few seconds, nothing ever showed up on screen, I tried all kinds of different components, power supplies, ram, video cards, nothing. I finally tried the ECS board, thinking its still might work, put it together, it powered, nothing on screen though, tried it back in my new motherboard, and then I realized, I may have some jumper settings to change, I couldn’t find my manual though, and didn’t look online before I found out my ECS motherboard had ruined my new CPU; it had ruined my old cpu and now this one, I am now returning the cpu to New egg, for a replacement, I destroyed the ECS board with a sledge hammer yesterday.
What else should I try doing this time, once I get a replacement, im sure the system wont post still, so something else is also wrong, I can’t ever get any of my speakers on my motherboards to work, so they can’t tell me what’s wrong. Should I try different RAM, different Motherboard, or both. What should I do, this is possibly the most frustrating thing I have had to deal with pertaining to computers.
Someone please help me.
I have made a few computers over the past year, most of which have been athlon xp’s, this time I am making a computer for my father. Just last year I canablazed my old althon xp computer to add some parts to my new computer I happened to be working on at the time, I took the cd burner, and the hard drive, and threw it into my new gaming machine.
For a while afterwards I just left the shell of what once was a fully functioning computer sitting there. I began making computers for my relatives later that year, the first would be for my aunt. I purchased:
Athlon XP 2600+
512 MB Kingston DDR 400
80 GB hard drive
CD burner
Case and power supply
Windows xp Pro
Nvidia 5200 FX
ECS Motherboard (I don’t remember the model, it was purple though)
When the items I had purchased arrived I quickly put everything together. Unplugged my computer from my monitor stuck it into my aunts computer, turned it on, and saw the bios come up. I turned off the system too plug up my keyboard, and pressed the power button again. The screen was blank. While I never did get the motherboard or that processor to post again, it became the source of much frustration for me over the next few weeks and still is to this day.
I took the computer to a local shop, they informed me that the motherboard was likely dead. So I packaged up the motherboard sent it back to the vender in CA, the man running the online store was very polite with me, an and answered all my questions. Once he received the motherboard he informed me much to my surprise that the motherboard worked.
I couldn’t believe it, he exclaimed that I should try a different power supply, and that should get ram with faster CL. The motherboard supposedly supported ram with timings of 2.5 not 3 like my Kingston ram. I obliged, I tried a different power supply, same problem. Bought new ram off of new egg that he had suggested, 512 Geil 2.5 CL RAM. Still nothing, instead of trying to email him again, like I should have, my aunt needed her computer, and it had been 4 weeks now. Out off desperation, I took the motherboard out of my old cannibalized computer, including the cpu (because they were practically the same) and put it together with the Geil Ram, and gave it to her that way.
She was happy with her computer, but I was out 150 dollars now, and had a bad motherboard to do nothing with.
My dad later expressed interest in a computer I thought this would be a good way to get rid of parts laying around. I bought a New ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard, took the ECS out and put my CPU in with, my old Kingston ram, and threw together. This time I couldn’t even get the system to power on.
I went beyond frustration now, I thought I had past my newbie stages of computer building, I had done everything right, all the switches were plugged up right, the power supply worked, the system didn’t power up at all. I took it to the same local shop, they tested to make sure the board wasn’t shorting out or anything, tested all the components (supposedly) and told me again I had a bad motherboard. I was furious, I had made sure I didn’t get any static on it. I emailed the vender, this time no one answered, I order yet another motherboard, this time I used a ASRock K7VT4A PRO and
put it together, still wouldn’t power on. I decided to try the ECS again, I could get this one to power on but it wouldn’t post still, I took the CPU out of my new motherboard, and turned on the switch. The fans and lights turned on.
This meant the cpu the whole time had been the culprit, I bought a new cpu, the same athlon xp 2600+. Put in the new motherboard, the system powered up, but the screen was blank, tried 2 different video cards that I know that worked, tried a different set of Kingston Ram, that I new worked. Still nothing.
Put the CPU in the ASUS Motherboard, this time it powered up but then for some reason just shut off in a few seconds, nothing ever showed up on screen, I tried all kinds of different components, power supplies, ram, video cards, nothing. I finally tried the ECS board, thinking its still might work, put it together, it powered, nothing on screen though, tried it back in my new motherboard, and then I realized, I may have some jumper settings to change, I couldn’t find my manual though, and didn’t look online before I found out my ECS motherboard had ruined my new CPU; it had ruined my old cpu and now this one, I am now returning the cpu to New egg, for a replacement, I destroyed the ECS board with a sledge hammer yesterday.
What else should I try doing this time, once I get a replacement, im sure the system wont post still, so something else is also wrong, I can’t ever get any of my speakers on my motherboards to work, so they can’t tell me what’s wrong. Should I try different RAM, different Motherboard, or both. What should I do, this is possibly the most frustrating thing I have had to deal with pertaining to computers.
Someone please help me.
