System upgrade nightmare

[PCMarine]

Ugh, I'm so pissed / worn out.

So I ordered a Biostar TF560 A2+ motherboard, athlon x2 3800+, 2 gb of corsair RAM from newegg last week as an upgrade from my single core 939 setup.

It finally came today and I swapped out the components, made sure everything was plugged in and A-okay. Of course when I go to turn the PC on, the case lights up for a moment then everything turns off. I proceed to take things out, put things back in, reseat the mobo half a dozen times each and the PC will turn on under seemingly random conditions.

When it finally boots it says it can't find any IDE devices, when my DVD drive (necessary to install vista) is CLEARLY plugged in. What a disaster.

So I figure the board is completely fvcked, and pop back in my old components... of course those work on the first try no problem.


And the real problem is that I need this upgrade to work this week, preferably tonight... It seems like I will have to RMA the biostar board with newegg, but I can't wait for the two way shipping. I'm sure newegg will gig me the shipping charges, and probably charge me for next day shipping...

This sucks

 

[LightningRider]

That's frustrating. I've never known Biostar to be a good motherboard company though.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

It sounds like you swapped the cpu,mobo, and ram but kept the same hard drive and didn't format it and do a fresh install of windows?

If this is the case, then you most likely have chipset driver problems. Different motherboards have different chipset drivers, you can try uninstalling your current mobo drivers and installing the drivers for the new mobo but this doesn't always work completely.

The easiest and surest fix is to reformat the drive and install windows, or buy a second hard drive and do a fresh install on it and clean your current drive up afterwards.

 

[gwai lo]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
It sounds like you swapped the cpu,mobo, and ram but kept the same hard drive and didn't format it and do a fresh install of windows?

If this is the case, then you most likely have chipset driver problems. Different motherboards have different chipset drivers, you can try uninstalling your current mobo drivers and installing the drivers for the new mobo but this doesn't always work completely.

The easiest and surest fix is to reformat the drive and install windows, or buy a second hard drive and do a fresh install on it and clean your current drive up afterwards.

That doesn't answer the initial power issues though ><

For some reason, I'm thinking shorting...have you tried booting the system outside of a case?

 

[PCMarine]

Originally posted by: gwai lo

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
It sounds like you swapped the cpu,mobo, and ram but kept the same hard drive and didn't format it and do a fresh install of windows?

If this is the case, then you most likely have chipset driver problems. Different motherboards have different chipset drivers, you can try uninstalling your current mobo drivers and installing the drivers for the new mobo but this doesn't always work completely.

The easiest and surest fix is to reformat the drive and install windows, or buy a second hard drive and do a fresh install on it and clean your current drive up afterwards.

That doesn't answer the initial power issues though ><

For some reason, I'm thinking shorting...have you tried booting the system outside of a case?

I thought it was shorting (hence reseating the mobo). However, even when I can get the PC to post, it is saying that it cannot find my IDE drives (despite them working just fine in my old setup).

As to the poster above, I am trying to format but I can't since the mobo won't recognize the DVD drive so that I can install vista.