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HELP!!! Did I fry my new system?!?

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agrall

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Hey folks...

I just received all my parts today of my new system and put them together. At first it posted fine and I set some BIOS settings, but it said it couldn't detect the floppy. No problem... I figured I just hooked up a cable wrong... I was going to fix it, install Windows and go to bed.

But in the process, I hooked up the power cable to the floppy with it missing a pin... When I rebooted, I heard a spark and smelled that burnt smell. I fried my floppy drive... No biggie... I had a spare old one... But now my system won't post at all! The video card doesn't initialize, and it seems to be stuck... The power supply runs and the fans run... but otherwise it is stuck...

What did I do?!? Did I fry the motherboard? Did I fry the processor? The memory? Did I kill the whole damned thing?

HELP!!!

Here are my components:
  • case + PS: Antec PLUS660 (plus an extra fan)
  • processor: P4 1.6a
  • motherboardEpox 4BDA2+
  • memory: Samsung 512 MB PC2700
  • hard drive: 60 GB Maxtor ATA-133 7200 RPM
  • video card: GF4 4400
  • CPU fan: Arkua 8568
  • mouse: MS Optical Intellimouse
  • keyboard: MS Internet Keyboard
  • scsi card: Tekram PCI
  • thermal paste: Arctic silver
  • sound card: SB Live
  • OS: Win XP Pro Upgrade Academic

I tried switching power supplies... That didn't help. I tested the video card in another system, and it worked... The hard drive wouldn't be recognized in my other system...
 
the HDD has Win2k on it which probably is formatted using NTFS instead of Fat32 file system. That's why the HDD isn't recognized in the other system or looks blank. Well... assuming you installed it with correct jumper settings. 🙂

Anyway, what happens when you try the memory in the other system? Does your other system support DDR? Also, is the motherboard beeping at all -or do the fans start up and nothing else happen?

nik
 
The new drive should be blank... I run Win2k NTFS on the other system...

The system doesn't beep at all. It just attempts to run drive lights and cycles that way...
 
Try POSTing with just the RAM and the processor, no video card. If it beeps (the no video card beep code), then your mobo isn't dead. If it doesn't, it might be dead, or it might be shorted out on the case, but since it was posting before in the same position, I can't say. Check your cabling on the new floppy, unplug the floppy and see if it boots, remount the entire thing to make sure there are no shorts, and last but not least, try booting outside the case.
 
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