Nitemare
Lifer
I have been having roughly 2-3 power spikes a month that are sufficient enough to reset all my clocks for me as well as restart my computers. I guess one of the computers got tired of it and blew a capaciter.
The power supply definitely died and I was hoping that was the end of it. Unfotunately, I don't think that is the case. I received a new power supply and hooked it up to my mb---Nada, no fans no nothing. It was an old motherboard(MSI K7T Turbo) so I figure it needed to be replaced anyway. So I got a Chaintech 7NJL1 APOGEE from one of the members in FS-FT. I hooked it up according to the manuals and fire it up...I'm thinking yes..I hear the whirr of many happy fans and then I notice hey the monitor isn't coming on. So there is no signal to monitor. I reseat the vid card a couple of times and no change. I exchange the video card with a known working one...no change. I also know that the dvd and internal ls-120 lights come on and stay on. The cbox2 gives the error message FF - which basically means Hey your system isn't working, it could be the MB, add on cards, bios or anything else.
I yank out my TV tuner, TB Santa Cruz....no change.
I disconnect all the extra add ons that chaintech included...no change
I disconnect the secondary ide ribbon..same story.
I changed the onboard FSB from 133/166 to 100 and back again.
I know the RAM is good because I took it from my main rig: 256 pc2700 and 256 pc2100
Processor is old..an AMD 900 100FSB
My main rig will only support 133/166 processors so I can't really drop it in to test it.
The only thing I can think of is a bad cpu, mb or something weird I'm not doing right on the mb. I'm personally leaning towards the CPU.
The power supply definitely died and I was hoping that was the end of it. Unfotunately, I don't think that is the case. I received a new power supply and hooked it up to my mb---Nada, no fans no nothing. It was an old motherboard(MSI K7T Turbo) so I figure it needed to be replaced anyway. So I got a Chaintech 7NJL1 APOGEE from one of the members in FS-FT. I hooked it up according to the manuals and fire it up...I'm thinking yes..I hear the whirr of many happy fans and then I notice hey the monitor isn't coming on. So there is no signal to monitor. I reseat the vid card a couple of times and no change. I exchange the video card with a known working one...no change. I also know that the dvd and internal ls-120 lights come on and stay on. The cbox2 gives the error message FF - which basically means Hey your system isn't working, it could be the MB, add on cards, bios or anything else.
I yank out my TV tuner, TB Santa Cruz....no change.
I disconnect all the extra add ons that chaintech included...no change
I disconnect the secondary ide ribbon..same story.
I changed the onboard FSB from 133/166 to 100 and back again.
I know the RAM is good because I took it from my main rig: 256 pc2700 and 256 pc2100
Processor is old..an AMD 900 100FSB
My main rig will only support 133/166 processors so I can't really drop it in to test it.
The only thing I can think of is a bad cpu, mb or something weird I'm not doing right on the mb. I'm personally leaning towards the CPU.
