Came home from work & my PC had locked up. Rebooted & little life in it. Wouldnt even post :-( then wouldnt even power on.
Ive tried more Ram & another video card but it still wont power up, unless I unplug the VGA Cable!!! - Plug it in & it powers off, so it looks like a short somwhere.
Old Rig AMD 64 3000 (the earlier socket of the 2!), 512mb Ram (had 1gb but I spilt coke inside by accident & fried a Stick & my video Card), AGP 7600GT. - I tried the ram in another machine & neither stick work now.. Hoping the Video Card & CPU are good - any Idea how much they are worth? Video card is only 6months old tops.
Anyway.. Hows the New rig looking? :-
1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3GHz) Socket AM2 L2 2MB (2 x 1MB) Cache OEM Processor
£97.83
1 x Coolermaster Eclipse (RR-CCB-WLU1- GP) CPU cooler Ultra Silent Intel LGA775 and AMD (754/939/940/AM2/F)
£26.99
1 x Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe WIFI-AP AM2 Sound 2 x GigaLan 1394 USB 2.0 WIFI-G ESATA ATX
£78.95
1 x Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-12) Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty
£55.74
1 x Extra Value 20 to 24pin Power Supply Converter
£2.12
1 x MSI 8600GTS 256MB Overclocked version DVI HDTV HDCP PCI-E 126981 Allocated
£114.84
1 x Samsung SH-S183 SATA 18x DVD±RW/RAM Black - Bare Drive OEM
17.43
Was a toss up between the Intel & AMD, but most of the work I do needs raw power, reading reviews & looking at benchmarks, meant the AMD just edged it.
any good or not then?
Those power supply converters are pointless, either the board will work with an old psu (leaving the last 4 pins on the mobo unconnected)(most do) or get a new psu. The converter means that youre effectively trying to draw 2 lines of 12v power down 1 line, not really a good thing.
Also you say you spilled coke into your old pc. Make sure you clean any bits you want to keep using very thoroughly, as coke has a habit of literally eating through circuit boards (might explain some of the problems with your old system).
I spilt the coke months ago. Stripped everything down straight away & used distilled water to clean & used some pure alchol to get in the nooks & crannies.
Its been working fine since the spill 6 months ago.
My rig was PCI/AGP, so theres nothing being ported over to the new rig.
I have a huge case & my drives are nowhere near the mobo :-)
My budget couldnt stretch to a new PSU as I would go full hog & get somthing better than I have atm (tagem 700w) - otherwise whats the point in upgrading? :lol:
Do you need the SLI motherboard, or is it just because you want a full size ATX board?