Trying to fix a friend's new build

[DJsRed]

A friend of mine upgraded their old system with the following items:

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
AMD 3000+ (939)
2x512 Corsair Value RAM 2.5 CAS

All of her other components are the same as in her old machine. They are:

WD 40 gig HDD
Pioneer 16x DL DVD burner
ASUS Radeon 9600 (CORRECTION: It's an x600, i'm thinking of her old card, which was not kept.)
450 watt Coolmax PS

When assembled, the computer went from not detecting her drives, to hanging and not letting us in the bios, to not turning on. We checked all cables and connections, and the older components are known good stuff. We are totally stumped as a variety of internet searches have turned up nothing. Any help you can provide is appreciated.

 

[Venomous]

Part of the problem might be trying to use a AGP video card in a PCI-E board? No?

 

[Yanagi]

Sounds really strange. Are you using an PCI or PCI-E Card in the system atm? Have you tried reseating or rebuild it from ground up? Tested the components again in a new system? Have you testeed the ram DIMMS on another machine? Try testing both the CPU and RAM in a different machine if possile. Also try clearing the BIOS.

 

[SrGuapo]

That card is AGP, that board is PCI-e. Will an AGP card even fit in a PCI-e slot?

 

[Venomous]

Originally posted by: SrGuapo
That card is AGP, that board is PCI-e. Will an AGP card even fit in a PCI-e slot?

Ive seen people do some crazy sh*t.. Thats why i asked...

 

[DJsRed]

ok, i'm kind of retarded for not realizing that she got an x600 to replace her old video card. She's been using that, NOT the agp card. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[SrGuapo]

OK, that makes more sense ... Have you tried just using the bare minimum cmponents (mobo, CPU, RAM, video)? No extra PCI cards, DVD drive, etc. You want to remove as many variables as possible.

 

[DJsRed]

Thanks for the help everyone. I'm still not entirely sure what the problem was, but it's up and running now, and seems stable. We took it out of the case, and powered up with the mobo/chip/ram. Then we added components one by one, and it worked just fine. It's running WinXP now like nothing was ever wrong. My only guess is that either the board was grounding out in the case cause we didn't mount it correctly, or we didn't connect the cables properly. As my friend said, "This is an Id10t error." Anyway, thanks again.

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: Venomous

Originally posted by: SrGuapo
That card is AGP, that board is PCI-e. Will an AGP card even fit in a PCI-e slot?

Ive seen people do some crazy sh*t.. Thats why i asked...

i have seen this in the forums a guy got a agp 6800gt and had a pci-e board everyone was stumped he had pictures but than i looked at it closer and i saw that the card was agp and he needed to get a pci-e card.

 

[boomerang]

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[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Sounds like a possible mounting issue or heat issue in the case. Make sure no case mounts are touching the motherboard where they aren't supposed too. I did that once. Shakes head in shame (first build though and pretty noob at it)