Just recently built a SFF pc and it's been giving me a lot of heartburn & making my damn hair fall out... During the course of this ordeal I've found out that the 512mb stick of kingston value pc2700 I got for it is faulty (put it in my main rig and couldn't even test it, as it made the system too unstable to boot). This is the second bad stick of Kingston value I've gotten out of 3 tries. No more Kingston for me. I also had trouble with the Lite-on dvd-rom drive - if it looks like it's scratching your cd's, and sounds like it's scratching your cd's... :roll: Even if it didn't scratch them though, in the process being roughly as loud as a freight train, it's only recognized by windows half the time and when it is, it only recognizes if a cd is in it half the time... Also tested it in my main rig. So I know these are faulty and it's not the system I tried using them in to blame
So I set up RMAs for those parts, put in working spares, and finally windows installs without a hitch. Great, I think. No, now Windows is completely freezing up at random intervals. When I say completely, I mean I can't ctrl-alt-del, move my mouse, or anything. Win XP pro, btw. When I turn the pc off, it at times turns itself on. When it does work, which is no more than a few minutes before locking up, my internet connection through its onboard lan is very flaky, topping out at about 30KBps using a known good cable. It's like this f*cking thing is posessed :| The chip isn't overheating; it idles at just under 50c (not all that hot considering the SFF case and use of heatpipes instead of typical HSF), and at any rate it has locked up on me within a minute of turning it on. I'm thinking a bad motherboard, but anyone have any other guesses? The 'spare' ram in it now is a 512mb dimm from my main rig, the same kingston value pc2700, and the optical is an ancient 8x4x32x cdr/rw I had in a drawer, everything else is what's listed in the profile in my sig. I flashed the bios and it did nothing. I have also installed the newest chipset drivers - again, nothing.
So I set up RMAs for those parts, put in working spares, and finally windows installs without a hitch. Great, I think. No, now Windows is completely freezing up at random intervals. When I say completely, I mean I can't ctrl-alt-del, move my mouse, or anything. Win XP pro, btw. When I turn the pc off, it at times turns itself on. When it does work, which is no more than a few minutes before locking up, my internet connection through its onboard lan is very flaky, topping out at about 30KBps using a known good cable. It's like this f*cking thing is posessed :| The chip isn't overheating; it idles at just under 50c (not all that hot considering the SFF case and use of heatpipes instead of typical HSF), and at any rate it has locked up on me within a minute of turning it on. I'm thinking a bad motherboard, but anyone have any other guesses? The 'spare' ram in it now is a 512mb dimm from my main rig, the same kingston value pc2700, and the optical is an ancient 8x4x32x cdr/rw I had in a drawer, everything else is what's listed in the profile in my sig. I flashed the bios and it did nothing. I have also installed the newest chipset drivers - again, nothing.
And what's the power supply's ratings like?
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