Saga of the Upgrade. Help!!!!!!

[Markdowns]

This is the saga of the upgrade. My old computer was doing some strange things. Making weird sounds and operating very slowly. I thought is was the CPU. I bought a new PIII 933Mhz/133Mhz bus. I went to install and found that it wouldn't work with my current Atrend board which has 100Mhz bus. I bought a new Asus P3C-E. This takes RDRAM, I had SDRAM, but I got a riser card to use my current SDRAM. I installed the new CPU and MB. Plugged in the power and nothing. I called a support at Asus. They said remove the board make sure it is not grounded and try it again. When I tried it again it started, but I didn't have the monitor hooked up so I tried to shutdown the unit. It wouldn't shut down so I unplugged the power cord. I hooked up the monitor and nothing. It wouldn't restart. I called Asus. They said I needed to get rid of the DIMM riser, go to RDRAM and replace my power supply which is 250 WATTS with at least 300. I replaced the RDRAM, but not the power supply. Put the board back into the case and tried to restart. Nothing again. I moved the board and the unit started. The bios came up and it was clocking nicely until I got to where it asked for the system disc. I couldn't open the disc tray. I pulled the DVD cable from EDI connector to check it. I then checked some other leads and the various cards. Noticing the lead from the DVD and thinking that it was a lead for the monster sound card I tried to plug it to the MX connection. That was the end The unit shut down and I can't restart even with the old board and old CPU. I get no power except when I went to pull out the ATX lead. I heard either the front fan or the HD cycling. Did I kill the HD, the power supply or what? The fuse in the power supply is good. As they say stupid is as stupid does.

 

[minendo]

Try removing the power cable from the PSU and let it sit for 5-10 minutes. This should reset your PSU.

Also check out the Tech Support Checklist to see if you are running into other problems.

 

[spanky]

hey... by any chance do u have a western digital hard drive? if so, RMA the drive and replace the PSU. i had that problem (at least a similar one)before... it was really strange. it started with 1 wd hd. then i put in a maxtor and everything was fine. so i had another functioning wd in another machine. pulled it and installed it to test. nothing again. so i put that once working wd back into its original system and it no longer works. put the maxtor in and its fine. so basically, it all came down to WD hs's and my psu. got the hd's rma'ed and the psu got smashed to smitherines.

 

[Markdowns]

Thanks for your reponse. The drive is infact a Western Digital. Will not even run now with the original board and CPU. Very strange.

 

[spanky]

if u an another brand hd... stick in it and see if it works. i would definitely try to rma it if possible. nd either hack the psu to death, or put it in a non-wd hd rig.