My last upgrade was almost 3 year ago when I bought an Athlon 2500 (Barton) and overclocked it to 3000+. I had purchased an Epox 8RDA+ (or something like that) motherboard that I think has an NVidia Nforce2 chipset. It's served me well for 3 years now and since I don't game any longer I've been perfectly content to avoid the upgrade plague. Consequintly I've lost touch with much of the computer technology that's came about over the last 3 years.
A few nights ago I turned on my PC and it wouldn't boot. During the initial post several of the voltage and fan speed indicators were in RED instead of the normal white. It would eventually get past the initial post but would hang on the very next screen. My first thought was that my fans were dusted out and needed a good cleaning. I took the case outside and blasted the fans with compressed air and cleaned everything up really well. I even took the CPU cooler off and reapplied my thermal compund and remounted the CPU. This did not fix the problem. So my next thought was that my Power supply was going bad and was not supplying the proper current to my MoBo. I picked up a new Antec from Best Buy and that did not fix it either. So the only other thing I can think of is the motherboard itself being bad. Maybe a faulty voltage regulator or something. So I need to replace it.
I want to keep the same CPU, Video Card, memory, ATA hard drives, etc so I need a motherboard that is compatable with my current gear. The CPU is a socket A 2500 barton, the video is an ATI 9700 AGP card. The memory is 1 GB of Kingston HyperX but I'm can't remember what speed it was. Whatever kind of memory the Epox board required.
I went to NewEgg to shop for a new board and I don't recognise any of the chipsets I'm seeing for socket A processors. There is a SIS chipset, a VIA chipset, and an Nforce 400 or something like that. I need a recommendation on a board that will work for my needs and be stable at the same time.
Anyone?
A few nights ago I turned on my PC and it wouldn't boot. During the initial post several of the voltage and fan speed indicators were in RED instead of the normal white. It would eventually get past the initial post but would hang on the very next screen. My first thought was that my fans were dusted out and needed a good cleaning. I took the case outside and blasted the fans with compressed air and cleaned everything up really well. I even took the CPU cooler off and reapplied my thermal compund and remounted the CPU. This did not fix the problem. So my next thought was that my Power supply was going bad and was not supplying the proper current to my MoBo. I picked up a new Antec from Best Buy and that did not fix it either. So the only other thing I can think of is the motherboard itself being bad. Maybe a faulty voltage regulator or something. So I need to replace it.
I want to keep the same CPU, Video Card, memory, ATA hard drives, etc so I need a motherboard that is compatable with my current gear. The CPU is a socket A 2500 barton, the video is an ATI 9700 AGP card. The memory is 1 GB of Kingston HyperX but I'm can't remember what speed it was. Whatever kind of memory the Epox board required.
I went to NewEgg to shop for a new board and I don't recognise any of the chipsets I'm seeing for socket A processors. There is a SIS chipset, a VIA chipset, and an Nforce 400 or something like that. I need a recommendation on a board that will work for my needs and be stable at the same time.
Anyone?
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