I recently bought an Asus A7M266-D, and threw on 2 1800 MP's.. Well.. It turns out that my Swifttech MCX462's that I had bought ($70 a piece!) won't fit on this motherboard. So I took off one CPU, and put a stock HSF unit on ont of the 1800+'s. It got my 1800 XP down to about 90F, so I figured an MP might be around the same..
Well, that's just my rant about me wasting $140 on some HSF's that I can't use, and since I have no more money, I can't go buy more and run my dual CPU's, only one.. Well.. sort of..
When I put the mobo in, and the one CPU, my GF3, the usb 2.0 card, and the firewire card, I left everything else unplugged, I just wanted a test boot. Even without the case wires plugged into the mobo, like power switch and stuff, when I flip the PSU switch, the computer powers on for a few seconds. No video comes up, it just comes on, the fans spin, then it shuts off...
I am useing a 300w power supply, and I am not sure of the amperage and all that, but I am hoping my problem is the power supply? Right? I am also going to be powering a 40 GB, a 60 GB, a 32X burner, and a DVD-ROM. Possibly an Asus iPanel at a later date...
So is that a PSU problem? I don't know if I have the money to upgrade the PSU right now, and after I bought all that, it would really suck if the only reason I couldn't run it is cuz of a PSU...
Well, that's just my rant about me wasting $140 on some HSF's that I can't use, and since I have no more money, I can't go buy more and run my dual CPU's, only one.. Well.. sort of..
When I put the mobo in, and the one CPU, my GF3, the usb 2.0 card, and the firewire card, I left everything else unplugged, I just wanted a test boot. Even without the case wires plugged into the mobo, like power switch and stuff, when I flip the PSU switch, the computer powers on for a few seconds. No video comes up, it just comes on, the fans spin, then it shuts off...
I am useing a 300w power supply, and I am not sure of the amperage and all that, but I am hoping my problem is the power supply? Right? I am also going to be powering a 40 GB, a 60 GB, a 32X burner, and a DVD-ROM. Possibly an Asus iPanel at a later date...
So is that a PSU problem? I don't know if I have the money to upgrade the PSU right now, and after I bought all that, it would really suck if the only reason I couldn't run it is cuz of a PSU...