- Aug 25, 2001
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I built this PC for the friend.
It has an Abit IP35 board, MSI Twin Frozer GTX460 768MB OC card, Q8200 quad-core, 4x1GB DDR2-667, a 1TB SATA HD with Windows 7, and a 250GB IDE HD with XP, and a IDE DVD drive. PSU is a fairly recent Antec Neo Eco 620W PSU, that was put in when the video card was put in.
He said he has previously had issues booting it up, and had to wiggle the cable in the back. I think he mean the monitor cable.
Today he told me that the computer shut down on him, and said that in order to boot the computer, he had to take the side off, and push/pull up on the video card.
Sounds like the video card is loose, except, I remember when I rebuilt his machine with the quad-core, I'm pretty sure I used both screws, it's a double-wide video card.
So I'm not sure what to think. I've offered him one of my machines if he needs it, but I would like to figure out what's wrong, whether it's the mobo, video card, or PSU.
Note that these issues were not present, immediately after I re-built the computer. They only developed a few months ago.
It has an Abit IP35 board, MSI Twin Frozer GTX460 768MB OC card, Q8200 quad-core, 4x1GB DDR2-667, a 1TB SATA HD with Windows 7, and a 250GB IDE HD with XP, and a IDE DVD drive. PSU is a fairly recent Antec Neo Eco 620W PSU, that was put in when the video card was put in.
He said he has previously had issues booting it up, and had to wiggle the cable in the back. I think he mean the monitor cable.
Today he told me that the computer shut down on him, and said that in order to boot the computer, he had to take the side off, and push/pull up on the video card.
Sounds like the video card is loose, except, I remember when I rebuilt his machine with the quad-core, I'm pretty sure I used both screws, it's a double-wide video card.
So I'm not sure what to think. I've offered him one of my machines if he needs it, but I would like to figure out what's wrong, whether it's the mobo, video card, or PSU.
Note that these issues were not present, immediately after I re-built the computer. They only developed a few months ago.