Recent content by Phatswalla

I think the board might be a bad one. I've stuck in ram, video card and PSU from my other machine that I know works fine. Heh, I've also taken the cpu out and put it back several times. This one has me stumped, I can't think of anything else to do. The beeping is also starting to sound...

yeah CMOS is in the normal position I just took it out from the case and now it stays on but it still won't post It's now stuck on the code "04" which wondefully is also not in the manual and beeps at regular intervals, but at least it's staying powered up.

Yes the ATX12V cable is plugged in, but it does the same thing whether it is plugged in or not. I just tried the power switch thing and it doesn't start up when I first plug it in. I can have nothing but the ATX Power plug plugged in or everything plugged in and it'll do the same thing.

I'm putting together a new system and am having a lot of trouble getting it to post. Hopefully some of you will have some ideas. The system consists of: Abit KV8 Pro (K8T800 Pro chipset) AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1 MB L2 Cache ATI 9700 Pro 2x 512meg Kingston PC3200 Antec 400watt PSU The...

I'm currently running a Palomino 1700+ on a Soyo SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! (266a chipset). According to this, the board only supports Palominos and not Thoroughbreds. However, looking over the newest BIOS updates, it states that the newest fix is "Enable support for AMD Low power CPU." Is this...

Hmm I plugged in my friend's enermax and everything works perfectly and my antec doesn't work in his so I guess it's dead. =( Is something like this covered under warranty?

Hmm I hadn't thought of trying that. I was going to try and borrow a friend's power supply tomorrow, I can try mine in his system while I'm at it. How do you tell what the prerequisite amp is?

Hi everyone, I came home today and tried to turn on my computer but all the fans turn on for a 1/10th of a second and then nothing else happens. The fans won't even do that a second time unless I flip the power switch on the PSU off and on again. I tried changing the power cable and using a...

I would go for a PIII700. I've built 2 athlon systems for friends and those things run HOT at default voltage/speed. For the most part PIIIs are more expensive, but the 700 is quite the steal. I hit a gig with mine and am quite pleases by the results.

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PIII700@1008 1.85v Montac Arctic Circle Asus P3V4X 2x Corsair128 PC133 Cas2 Hercules Geforce2 GTS 32meg 239/380 WD 20.4 7200rpm 16x Pioneer DVD Yamaha 8x/4x/24x Scsi2 Panasonic 52x Tekram 390U2W CL Live! MP3+ Netgear 10/100 NIC 4x 80mm, 1x 92mm, 2x 120mm

PIII 450s are SECC2s, which means that the side that faces the heatsink should be bare. The core should come in direct contact with the heatsink for better cooling. Make sure you get an appropriate heatsink/fan setup for it.

However, the PIII core does have it's limits and it hovers around 1Gig. I think a 933mhz speed is a safer bet than 1Gig or 1.06Gigs. If you buy a higher multiplier cpu there'll be the same risks as going with a cheaper and lower clocked cpu.

Um, that's 11mhz or 33% over specs, chances are it won't

What cpu cooler are you using? Chances are, it isn't mounted correctly. Take your slocket out, mount the cpu and heatsink on it and check for a space between the core and the heatsink and make sure it isn't slanted. Make sure you use some sort of thermal transfer material between the two.