My new card arrived yesterday, Built by ATI 9800 Pro 256 MB version...I bought it off a friend, and it was working when he pulled it....I go to install it in my system, and no go...Continous short beeps...So i reset it, and its fine, but then it hangs at the AMD Athlon XP 2500+, Performance Memory Timings, Dual Channel DDR, right when its about to list the Primary, Secondary, etc. IDE devices...
So I reboot it a couple of times, and it finally goes, and I install the drivers, reboot, hangs once on the Windows XP splash screen, reboot, install the ATI CP, reboot, hangs again, and then finally it works. I run 3DMark03, get about 15500+ (not great, but suffices), and everything else runs fine. I had a match (Counter-strike), so I played in that, and everything was working beatiful. I shutdown, and go to sleep. This morning, I woke up and went to turn it on, and the woes began.
It started to freeze again, at the BIOS screen....I unplug all of my devices except my hard drive, cpu fan, and video card, and still nothing. I took out one stick of ram, nothing. Now remember, this all is working the night before beatifuly (well a few minor hitches along the way.) So I go to my friends house, get my old card (9700 Pro) that I sold him, and try it. Same thing the first time I boot it. I reboot it a second time, and it works, magically. It says floppy error (I have no floppy drive), so I enter the bios, set halt on errors to no errors, change the FSB to 166, and then save and exit. Now the computer wont boot again. I try several more times, with no luck. Finally, it won't even freeze there. It gives me post codes. First, It's a long beep, followed by another long beep, continuasly (sp?). I power down, and boot her up again, and now, nothing. No posts, not a thing. Im assuming my power supply has hit the shitter.
Well here's my system specs, so someone might be able to shed some light on this situation.
Asus A7N8X (1.06 revision) updated to the 8/xx/03 bios, (havent gotten to upgrade to the latest yet)
AMD XP 2500+
9800 Pro 256mb or 9700 Pro 128mb
Thermaltake Xaser III V1000D (7 Silent case Fans)
SLK-800A w/Thermltake Smart Case Fan II
Compaq 8X DVD-Rom Drive
Lite-on 52x24x52x CD-RW
WD 80GB 7200 rpm 8MB Cache
WD 40GB 7200 rpm 2MB Cache
Antec Tru Power 330W
I know the PSU is a little small, but now It won't even work with almost nothing attached. I'm assuming I screwed up the PSU somehow, So hopefully I can try another one tomorrow, or else I'll just have to buy a new one.
The wierdest thing in all this is that I used the computer for a good 3 hours last night without any problem (besides the small hitches).
So I reboot it a couple of times, and it finally goes, and I install the drivers, reboot, hangs once on the Windows XP splash screen, reboot, install the ATI CP, reboot, hangs again, and then finally it works. I run 3DMark03, get about 15500+ (not great, but suffices), and everything else runs fine. I had a match (Counter-strike), so I played in that, and everything was working beatiful. I shutdown, and go to sleep. This morning, I woke up and went to turn it on, and the woes began.
It started to freeze again, at the BIOS screen....I unplug all of my devices except my hard drive, cpu fan, and video card, and still nothing. I took out one stick of ram, nothing. Now remember, this all is working the night before beatifuly (well a few minor hitches along the way.) So I go to my friends house, get my old card (9700 Pro) that I sold him, and try it. Same thing the first time I boot it. I reboot it a second time, and it works, magically. It says floppy error (I have no floppy drive), so I enter the bios, set halt on errors to no errors, change the FSB to 166, and then save and exit. Now the computer wont boot again. I try several more times, with no luck. Finally, it won't even freeze there. It gives me post codes. First, It's a long beep, followed by another long beep, continuasly (sp?). I power down, and boot her up again, and now, nothing. No posts, not a thing. Im assuming my power supply has hit the shitter.
Well here's my system specs, so someone might be able to shed some light on this situation.
Asus A7N8X (1.06 revision) updated to the 8/xx/03 bios, (havent gotten to upgrade to the latest yet)
AMD XP 2500+
9800 Pro 256mb or 9700 Pro 128mb
Thermaltake Xaser III V1000D (7 Silent case Fans)
SLK-800A w/Thermltake Smart Case Fan II
Compaq 8X DVD-Rom Drive
Lite-on 52x24x52x CD-RW
WD 80GB 7200 rpm 8MB Cache
WD 40GB 7200 rpm 2MB Cache
Antec Tru Power 330W
I know the PSU is a little small, but now It won't even work with almost nothing attached. I'm assuming I screwed up the PSU somehow, So hopefully I can try another one tomorrow, or else I'll just have to buy a new one.
The wierdest thing in all this is that I used the computer for a good 3 hours last night without any problem (besides the small hitches).
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