Possibly sent a totally bogus power supply?

[JenniCHP]

Holy ..uh..sorry guys.. I uh.. I mean.. I forgot about the power button in the front panel. Oh man....I'm so sorry about that. Sometimes it's right under the nose. Thing was - I was doing the button in the back - never did the most obvious thing. I guess I'm just so darned nervous about screwing something up. Hahha..got fan and light activity on the supply and motherboard heat sink fan, as well as leds...I'm so sorry about wasting your time, guys =/

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: JenniCHP
The motherboard is on the case it came in - yeah. Got the ram in slots DDR 1 and DDR 2 for dual channel capabilities. Now the video card in it is my ultra old $X AGP Nvidia GeForce2 MX with 16 mb vram ..it's a darned old card...could that be why nothing is working as far as power supply goes? Once I get it working I'm going to take out the more recent - but still semi old card in the system that I'm responding in these forums with - and try that (a GeForce 4000 Verto with 64 megs DDR ram) - Didn't have enough for a major nice video card so I was going to put that in..but I was going to test things with this old card before shutting down this system, removing the card and putting it in the new system (I guess I could put the old card in this system I'm online with, which is what my plans are ultimately) - but I was hoping to avoid some clutter.

I'm not sure guys.. if it's not that the video card is pretty old, I really have no clue what could be keeping the power from turning on. I mean like - the power supply fans aren't even spinning, and the LED in the supply aren't lighting up..there's no activity at all.

I use a GeForce2 GTS-V in my work rig, which is an nForce3 board. Nothing wrong with that. Actually I just swapped it to my semi-dead Radeon 7500, another oldie. It should be fine with your GF2 MX. I also see on page 29 that the mobo has an AGP 2x warning LED that will come on if an AGP 2x card is inserted (which would be bad to fire it up that way) and a RAM LED up by the memory slots.

Did you try the direct metal-to-metal powertrip yet, to rule out a faulty case switch?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: JenniCHP
Holy ..uh..sorry guys.. I uh.. I mean.. I forgot about the power button in the front panel. Oh man....I'm so sorry about that. Sometimes it's right under the nose. Thing was - I was doing the button in the back - never did the most obvious thing. I guess I'm just so darned nervous about screwing something up. Hahha..got fan and light activity on the supply and motherboard heat sink fan, as well as leds...I'm so sorry about wasting your time, guys =/

Aha, there ya go Now just make sure not to go and catch worms when you've got Windows installed.

Here is a recommended installation order, if you want one:

1) Unplug your network cable and leave it unplugged.

2) Install WinXP and set a strong password on any and all Administrator-class accounts. This is to keep share-hopping worms from simply hacking your system using an administrative share.

3) BEFORE installing drivers, install Service Pack 2 for WinXP (best bet is to have it pre-downloaded from Microsoft and ready on a CD or something).

4) Enable the WinXP firewall unless you've got some other firewall in mind. Also enable Data Execution Prevention for all programs (Resources page for details). Security's goin' up

4) Next, install your nVidia 5.10 motherboard drivers from www.nvidia.com/drivers. Uncheck the nVidia audio drivers since your board doesn't use nVidia hardware for audio.

5) After rebooting from the mobo driver installation, install your nVidia video drivers and other drivers

6) Now fire off a Defrag session and make yourself a sandwich

7) Install your antivirus software if you have some, get it all configured, and now you can plug into your modem and get your antivirus software updated

8) Hit Windows Update for the latest security updates. If you have Office, install that and hit Office Update too.

9) I suggest making yourself and the other computer users some Limited user accounts to use for daily-driver usage. They're practically immune to all kinds of unwanted software such as spyware and adware, and will help thwart some virus/trojan/worm attacks too.

10) Install Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 1.2.1 and have it check out your security

11) Defrag some more


Have fun with the new riggie

 

[JenniCHP]

regarding worms - I have a linksys BFRSR41 or something model Router. Reason being so that my folks can have access using the same cable modem in their rooms. I'm fairly sure that the router (set on its toughest settings. Will keep wormies from getting in?

Also - regarding the boot up - When I fired the power supply up - I didn't see any Bios message..just a blank black screen..is that normal to see until I get the other little connectors plugged in, hard drive, etc? I also went ahead and put the newer video card in (Haven't tried booting up yet) - and got the sound blaster audigy card out while I was at it.

But I'm worried. Should I have seen the bios screen instead of a dark screen, or do I need to plug in more before then?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: JenniCHP
regarding worms - I have a linksys BFRSR41 or something model Router. Reason being so that my folks can have access using the same cable modem in their rooms. I'm fairly sure that the router (set on its toughest settings. Will keep wormies from getting in?

Also - regarding the boot up - When I fired the power supply up - I didn't see any Bios message..just a blank black screen..is that normal to see until I get the other little connectors plugged in, hard drive, etc? I also went ahead and put the newer video card in (Haven't tried booting up yet) - and got the sound blaster audigy card out while I was at it.

But I'm worried. Should I have seen the bios screen instead of a dark screen, or do I need to plug in more before then?

The Linksys BEFSR41 will do the job but you do want to update its firmware to eliminate a vulnerability in it. Go to Linksys.com, hit Support, Knowledge Base, and do a search for "BEFSR41" and it's at the top. Also, I would still keep the Windows firewall or ZoneAlarm free firewall installed to firewall your computers from eachother in the event of a worm infection on one of them. The Linksys firewall won't protect your PCs from an "inside job."

Your system should show a BIOS screen with just the CPU, video card and RAM. If it doesn't, maybe your Clear CMOS jumper is in the Clear position, or perhaps your motherboard is cursed. :Q Also, make sure the CPU fan is plugged into the CPU_FAN header shown on page 15.

 

[Viper96720]

lol reminded me of my brother the other day. He got a new computer with on board video. Installed the video card from the old computer into the new one. Then called me up to help. Wasn't getting any video. Ended up he forgot to plug the vga into the video card. He had it still hooked up to the onboard video.

 

[JenniCHP]

Now I'm worried, MechBgon - maybe it's just something silly like with the power, maybe I'm doing the jumpers wrong..but all I've been getting is a black/bank screen. The motherboard makes an intermittent beeep..(silence for a second or so), beeep (Silence for a second or so) beeep..repeat - etc.. No bios screen showing information or anything. The fan for the cpu's heatsink has been plugged in at all times and the fan on top spins just fine. I'm not exactly sure what's keeping the bios from showing up..Hrm.. =/

 

[mechBgon]

Sure you got your RAM fully bottomed out in the slots? If you can see the gold contacts, then it ain't all the way in. Ditto for the video card.

Also, are you positive you got the CPU into the socket in the correct orientation? On your motherboard, the gold triangle on the corner of the CPU should be at the top-right corner of the CPU socket. I've heard of a few people getting them into the sockets incorrectly! :Q

 

[JenniCHP]

Aha..ok..I tried taking out one of the ram bars and it works. It reads 1 gig of ram, I see the bios set up..a quick beep and it says pc bus 200mhz (That doesn't seem right? Isn't it supposed to be 800 or something) ..

anyhoo I can hit delete to go into bios set up...so it has to be something with the ram..I tried each one separately and each one works by itself on its own..but when I plug one into dimm section 1 and one into dimm section 2 it wont show the bios or anything...maybe I need to enable dual channel ram or something in the bios hence need to start up with only 1 stick of ram till I get that sorted out. Any clues? Everything seems good as long as I use one bar of ram. Sorry if I seem so jittery.. =) (The boot up screen also detected the FX -53 cpu so I know that's alright)

 

[rhino56]

dont mess with the 110 220 switch on the back of the powersupply. the little red one. just so you know.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: NinjaGnome
to see if the power supply works get a little paper clip or peice of metal and connect the green wire to one of the black wires on the mobo connector. If there is no activity then your power supply is dead. thats how you test a power supply without using a motherboard.

A word to the wise: do not try this without applying a resistive load to the PSU, e.g. a hard disk or CD-ROM.