I recently bought a system with the following components:
amd 2600+
512MB pc2700 corsair cas2 ram
antec 1060 case w/ 330W psu
epox 8k9a2
Here's the story, but I'll preface it by saying I think the mobo has a short or something that is causing it to kill PSUs.
I put the system together. It posted, but hung after checking the DMI pool. So I shut it down, unplugged a HD. booted it back up and it hung on the detection of the IDE drives. I rebooted it again, and it nearly immediately played a alarm-buzzer, and did not post. rebooting in somewhat rapid succession a couple times yeilded the same thing, but when I gave it 30sec or so before powering it up again, it made it all the way back to checking the DMI pool before hanging. Then, later I was trying to boot off a floppy, and the floppy drive went POP and smoked. the power cable leading into it was unusually hot. it would not boot after that for a while. However without changing anything, it decided to boot again the next day.
So I swapped another antec PSU in (250W), and booted. I got into bios, and then shut it down to install a new floppy drive and burn a new bios update disk (because I'm not sure my bios has the 2600+ support). When I installed the floppy drive and tried to power on again, *nothing* happens. no psu fan, nothing.
I bought this all from mwave.com, and luckily they have a fairly good return policy. I'm planning on RMA'ing the PSU/case and mobo on monday, but does this assesment sound OK? can anyone else thing of other things to check or try?
TIA,
mike
UPDATE: I swapped the 250W PSU back into another (known good) box, and now that PSU is dead too. so the machine somehow killed the PSU. This supports my hypothesis... and costs me more stinkin' money! :-( Epox isn't doing much to win my favor here -- but the antec case is awesome.
amd 2600+
512MB pc2700 corsair cas2 ram
antec 1060 case w/ 330W psu
epox 8k9a2
Here's the story, but I'll preface it by saying I think the mobo has a short or something that is causing it to kill PSUs.
I put the system together. It posted, but hung after checking the DMI pool. So I shut it down, unplugged a HD. booted it back up and it hung on the detection of the IDE drives. I rebooted it again, and it nearly immediately played a alarm-buzzer, and did not post. rebooting in somewhat rapid succession a couple times yeilded the same thing, but when I gave it 30sec or so before powering it up again, it made it all the way back to checking the DMI pool before hanging. Then, later I was trying to boot off a floppy, and the floppy drive went POP and smoked. the power cable leading into it was unusually hot. it would not boot after that for a while. However without changing anything, it decided to boot again the next day.
So I swapped another antec PSU in (250W), and booted. I got into bios, and then shut it down to install a new floppy drive and burn a new bios update disk (because I'm not sure my bios has the 2600+ support). When I installed the floppy drive and tried to power on again, *nothing* happens. no psu fan, nothing.
I bought this all from mwave.com, and luckily they have a fairly good return policy. I'm planning on RMA'ing the PSU/case and mobo on monday, but does this assesment sound OK? can anyone else thing of other things to check or try?
TIA,
mike
UPDATE: I swapped the 250W PSU back into another (known good) box, and now that PSU is dead too. so the machine somehow killed the PSU. This supports my hypothesis... and costs me more stinkin' money! :-( Epox isn't doing much to win my favor here -- but the antec case is awesome.
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