Hey guys, ive been running a stable system for the last 6 months, i have a crappy 300watt PSU, a dvd writer, a dvd reader, nvidia 6600le gfx card, an intake fan, and outtake fan, an Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 motherboard, 2 x 512mb sticks of corsair value select ddr ram, a Sempron 2800 socket 754 CPU running at its core speed of 1.6ghz, and 2 x Serial ATA 2 80gb samsung hard drives, running in a raid 0 configuration.
Now yesterday i got a hold of a Sempron 3100 754 @1.8ghz from work, and started installing it last night, now the cpu hsf i have is a ****** to get out as its extremly close to my RAM, PSU, and mobo power connector, so i decided i would take apart my whole system, clear some cables away, and install the cpu, so the only hardware change would still be the cpu.
Now, i started this proccess, but by the time it came to put it all back in, it was about 12:30 at night, and my mum was yellin at me to go to bed, i had no argument so indeed off i went, i woke up about 7 this morning, and started the building proccess at about 8:30, after i had found my thermal paste and got everything back together in a nice neat way it was already 10:00, [must have spent longer than i thought looking for the thermal paste] so i plugged in my computer, switched on the PSU, and pressed the power button...
"click" .... silence, my computer hadnt turned on, i made sure the cable was connected to the mains, and tried again, that is when i noticed that the little green power led was on, so i held in the power bottun untill my computer turned itself off.
I assumed that my PSU was struggling to handle all the components after a whole 6 months, so i unplugged different components untill it would successfully power up, now i was running my computer as usual, but without the intake/outtake fans and with only the dvd writer.
My computer was finally on, so i went into the bios, and set the fsb back to the default, as i didnt want to overclock the cpu just yet, this is when i ran into troubles, after my computer booting up, it then was telling me i had an error in my raid configuration, so i went into it, and it showed me 1 hdd, but not the other, so i powered down the computer, and switched the hdds power connectors, booted up again, and same error, so i changed around the SATA cables, smae problem again, changed the the rails at which it was connected to, still only 1 drive showing, so i disabled raid in the bios, and booted up again, this time it detected 2 samsung 80gb hdd's, but obviosly because it wasnt enabled in raid it couldnt go any further, so i changed it back to enable raid, and decided to put my old cpu back in.
a few minutes later i booted up the system now with my original 2800 installed, but, it still was showing up with a error with the raid, now at this point i decided to feel the hdds to check if they were both spinning and both getting warm, which they were, so i doubted it that one hdd had failed, as my computer could also still detect both drives were conected when raid was disabled in the bios.
So i started changing around the power conections again, after a few times of booting up my PSU decided it was now capable of running both dvd drives again, [cant wait to get a new hiper PSU] but the same problems were still happening, then, after another change over my computer didnt want to boot when one molex - sata power connector was connected to a certain hdd and 1 molex power connection, so i thought maybe it woud be that cable playing up, i changed some cabling around once again, but soon enough that cable decided to work fine in that same hdd and same molex plug, my computer must have been playing games with me, as one second it works with some thing, next second it doesnt, then it works again.
So anyways, i had fiddled with everything i could think of changing, and went and made lunch, [fixing computers all day makes you hungry suprisingly] soon enough it was 3:00 in the arvo and my computer still wasnt working, i finaly nagged my sister to get off the computer and on i got, after doing the normal ****** i logged into Ananadtech and decided to ask for some help, so here I am people, please help, feel free to ask any questions, as i dont think i covered everything you might want to know, but any help is appreciated, i cant afford to loose some of my work, alot of the stuff i have on random dvds around the place, but i havnt made a backup for a while now, so i cant really afford to loose my data, and i just really want my computer to boot into windows so i can back everything up and reformat the drives.
HELP ME!
Thanks
TK
Now yesterday i got a hold of a Sempron 3100 754 @1.8ghz from work, and started installing it last night, now the cpu hsf i have is a ****** to get out as its extremly close to my RAM, PSU, and mobo power connector, so i decided i would take apart my whole system, clear some cables away, and install the cpu, so the only hardware change would still be the cpu.
Now, i started this proccess, but by the time it came to put it all back in, it was about 12:30 at night, and my mum was yellin at me to go to bed, i had no argument so indeed off i went, i woke up about 7 this morning, and started the building proccess at about 8:30, after i had found my thermal paste and got everything back together in a nice neat way it was already 10:00, [must have spent longer than i thought looking for the thermal paste] so i plugged in my computer, switched on the PSU, and pressed the power button...
"click" .... silence, my computer hadnt turned on, i made sure the cable was connected to the mains, and tried again, that is when i noticed that the little green power led was on, so i held in the power bottun untill my computer turned itself off.
I assumed that my PSU was struggling to handle all the components after a whole 6 months, so i unplugged different components untill it would successfully power up, now i was running my computer as usual, but without the intake/outtake fans and with only the dvd writer.
My computer was finally on, so i went into the bios, and set the fsb back to the default, as i didnt want to overclock the cpu just yet, this is when i ran into troubles, after my computer booting up, it then was telling me i had an error in my raid configuration, so i went into it, and it showed me 1 hdd, but not the other, so i powered down the computer, and switched the hdds power connectors, booted up again, and same error, so i changed around the SATA cables, smae problem again, changed the the rails at which it was connected to, still only 1 drive showing, so i disabled raid in the bios, and booted up again, this time it detected 2 samsung 80gb hdd's, but obviosly because it wasnt enabled in raid it couldnt go any further, so i changed it back to enable raid, and decided to put my old cpu back in.
a few minutes later i booted up the system now with my original 2800 installed, but, it still was showing up with a error with the raid, now at this point i decided to feel the hdds to check if they were both spinning and both getting warm, which they were, so i doubted it that one hdd had failed, as my computer could also still detect both drives were conected when raid was disabled in the bios.
So i started changing around the power conections again, after a few times of booting up my PSU decided it was now capable of running both dvd drives again, [cant wait to get a new hiper PSU] but the same problems were still happening, then, after another change over my computer didnt want to boot when one molex - sata power connector was connected to a certain hdd and 1 molex power connection, so i thought maybe it woud be that cable playing up, i changed some cabling around once again, but soon enough that cable decided to work fine in that same hdd and same molex plug, my computer must have been playing games with me, as one second it works with some thing, next second it doesnt, then it works again.
So anyways, i had fiddled with everything i could think of changing, and went and made lunch, [fixing computers all day makes you hungry suprisingly] soon enough it was 3:00 in the arvo and my computer still wasnt working, i finaly nagged my sister to get off the computer and on i got, after doing the normal ****** i logged into Ananadtech and decided to ask for some help, so here I am people, please help, feel free to ask any questions, as i dont think i covered everything you might want to know, but any help is appreciated, i cant afford to loose some of my work, alot of the stuff i have on random dvds around the place, but i havnt made a backup for a while now, so i cant really afford to loose my data, and i just really want my computer to boot into windows so i can back everything up and reformat the drives.
HELP ME!
Thanks
TK