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nanofever · 02-14-2004, 10:35 AM

Okay so I'm building my new computer and I had a big problem. Abit NF7-S, Barton 2500+, thermalright heatsink, Antec true 430 PSU, Geil gold dragon DDR 3200, Geforce FX5700.

It never POST'ed correctly, the first time my Barton 2500+ posted as an 1100 mhz and the Gig of Geil ram was detected at 980KB? After that the keyboard wouldn't detect and on the third try I got really crazy characters on the monitor. The characters were things like diamonds and such that I had seen since early DOS games and they were 8 different colors, then VGA wouldn't show when I rebooted and tried again.

The motherboard would start screeching when I started the computer, eventhough I had on a massive heatsink/fan/thermal grease. I then reapplied grease and the screeching stopped, unfortunatly it wouldn't beep at all after that. I tried another video card (PCI) on the motherboard and VGA wouldn't work then either.

I RMA'ed the motherboard thinking it was bad and I'm really worried that multiple components might be shot (video card, ram ect)

Edit: Upon inspected the chip I noticed one of the corners, on the core, has a tiny, tiny bit missing, is that what fucked my entire system ?

02-14-2004, 10:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
nanofever Huzzah for Welcome Week, Much beer shall I imbibe. Location: UCSB	Computer building help Okay so I'm building my new computer and I had a big problem. Abit NF7-S, Barton 2500+, thermalright heatsink, Antec true 430 PSU, Geil gold dragon DDR 3200, Geforce FX5700. It never POST'ed correctly, the first time my Barton 2500+ posted as an 1100 mhz and the Gig of Geil ram was detected at 980KB? After that the keyboard wouldn't detect and on the third try I got really crazy characters on the monitor. The characters were things like diamonds and such that I had seen since early DOS games and they were 8 different colors, then VGA wouldn't show when I rebooted and tried again. The motherboard would start screeching when I started the computer, eventhough I had on a massive heatsink/fan/thermal grease. I then reapplied grease and the screeching stopped, unfortunatly it wouldn't beep at all after that. I tried another video card (PCI) on the motherboard and VGA wouldn't work then either. I RMA'ed the motherboard thinking it was bad and I'm really worried that multiple components might be shot (video card, ram ect) Edit: Upon inspected the chip I noticed one of the corners, on the core, has a tiny, tiny bit missing, is that what fucked my entire system ? __________________ I'm leaving for the University of California: Santa Barbara in 5 hours, give me your best college advice - things I need, good ideas, bad ideas, nooky, ect. Originally Posted by Norseman on another forum: "Yeah, the problem with the world is the stupid people are all cocksure of themselves and the intellectuals are full of doubt." Last edited by nanofever; 02-14-2004 at 10:43 AM..