These are the components which make up the system that I can’t get to work:
MSI K7N2 Delta-L motherboard
AMD XP 2600+ processor with heatsink
512mb DDR PC 2700 Ram - Generic I believe
Chaintech gForce MX440 64mb Videocard
Western Digital 80gb Hard Drive
Lite-On 52x CD-RW
52x CD-Rom
Sony 1.44 Floppy
2 case fans
Turbo Case 350watt ATX
Windows XP
Ok here is my problem - It’s going to be long and detailed so everyone knows what I have gone through:
I first built the system and powered it on. The screen read what it was supposed to such as XP 2600+. It took a very long time to detect all of the devices. Then it would throw a floppy drive fail (40) error. I went through the BIOS and selected boot from CD-ROM first so I could boot up WinXP and let it do it’s thing. It took a very long time to do this. Then it told me that the drive wasn’t partitioned and that it couldn’t install the OS. Then I went through the BIOS and selectd boot from floppy but that was failiing so that didn’t work. Keep in mind that on each start-up the processor would change what it was - for example it did not say XP 2600+ anymore but rather 1057gzh or something like that.
So then I take it to a computer shop in my college town to ask him what’s wrong. He screwed around with the BIOS and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t reading the processor right. I think he overclocked it and really messed it up. When I took it home that day I could only get it to turn on and not read any video. I tried clearing the CMOS but it didn’t work how it should. Still I had no video. Then all of a sudden my computer would only boot up for like 5 seconds and then shut right back down. It would not stay on for more than 30 seconds probably.
I then take my computer to my neighbor back home. He has never seen anythign like it. We try every possibility. We tried booting it without anything hooked up. We tried switing the RAM. We tried a new video card. Nothing. Then we figure that it is a bad motherboard. So I go to the local computer shop adn buy the exact motherboard.
I get home and install all of the components but only have 1 CD-Rom hooked up. When I booted it up it went very fast and read it as a XP 2600+ but it threw the floppy error again. I then went through the BIOS to have it boot from CD. I throw the XP cd in and it gets pretty far. It detected the hardware and installed some drivers. The blue screen for XP install was on for about 3-4 mins. Then all of a sudden it completely shut down.
Then when I booted the machine back up it read the processor as some 2.?ghz. I then went through the BIOS with my neighbor and we shut down all of the onboard devices such as the LAN, USB, adn all that junk. We also had 3 devices on one IRQ number so we changed that (I heard you can only have 2 - is this right?). Then we re-booted adn it again said that the processor was some different number - like 1.453 ghz or something. It would throw an error. Then we re-booted the machine again and it read another number for the processor I believe.
We then checked the floppy cable and flipped it around b/c it was backwards (I didn’t think it could be backwards b/c the notches matched up). We stuck a bootable floppy in but no go. I put 3 new floppys in to see if that was the problem - NO! Then out of nowhere on the next boot-up we got no video? We tried a new video card but no dice. Then I reseated the video card along with taking the CPU out and reseating that. I started it back up but just a blank screen. It won’t read video now. I can’t do anything with the computer. I tried clearing the CMOS with the jumper and battery and everything but still nothing.
Could this possibly be something with incompatibility with my hardware? Could it be a bad power supply? Could the processor be bad? Memory? ANY IDEAS?? I am so frustrated and lost that I don’t know what to do. My other computer is an AMD XP and I never ran into any problems such as this. None of the people I have asked have seen this either. HELP ME PLEASE!!!
Chad
MSI K7N2 Delta-L motherboard
AMD XP 2600+ processor with heatsink
512mb DDR PC 2700 Ram - Generic I believe
Chaintech gForce MX440 64mb Videocard
Western Digital 80gb Hard Drive
Lite-On 52x CD-RW
52x CD-Rom
Sony 1.44 Floppy
2 case fans
Turbo Case 350watt ATX
Windows XP
Ok here is my problem - It’s going to be long and detailed so everyone knows what I have gone through:
I first built the system and powered it on. The screen read what it was supposed to such as XP 2600+. It took a very long time to detect all of the devices. Then it would throw a floppy drive fail (40) error. I went through the BIOS and selected boot from CD-ROM first so I could boot up WinXP and let it do it’s thing. It took a very long time to do this. Then it told me that the drive wasn’t partitioned and that it couldn’t install the OS. Then I went through the BIOS and selectd boot from floppy but that was failiing so that didn’t work. Keep in mind that on each start-up the processor would change what it was - for example it did not say XP 2600+ anymore but rather 1057gzh or something like that.
So then I take it to a computer shop in my college town to ask him what’s wrong. He screwed around with the BIOS and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t reading the processor right. I think he overclocked it and really messed it up. When I took it home that day I could only get it to turn on and not read any video. I tried clearing the CMOS but it didn’t work how it should. Still I had no video. Then all of a sudden my computer would only boot up for like 5 seconds and then shut right back down. It would not stay on for more than 30 seconds probably.
I then take my computer to my neighbor back home. He has never seen anythign like it. We try every possibility. We tried booting it without anything hooked up. We tried switing the RAM. We tried a new video card. Nothing. Then we figure that it is a bad motherboard. So I go to the local computer shop adn buy the exact motherboard.
I get home and install all of the components but only have 1 CD-Rom hooked up. When I booted it up it went very fast and read it as a XP 2600+ but it threw the floppy error again. I then went through the BIOS to have it boot from CD. I throw the XP cd in and it gets pretty far. It detected the hardware and installed some drivers. The blue screen for XP install was on for about 3-4 mins. Then all of a sudden it completely shut down.
Then when I booted the machine back up it read the processor as some 2.?ghz. I then went through the BIOS with my neighbor and we shut down all of the onboard devices such as the LAN, USB, adn all that junk. We also had 3 devices on one IRQ number so we changed that (I heard you can only have 2 - is this right?). Then we re-booted adn it again said that the processor was some different number - like 1.453 ghz or something. It would throw an error. Then we re-booted the machine again and it read another number for the processor I believe.
We then checked the floppy cable and flipped it around b/c it was backwards (I didn’t think it could be backwards b/c the notches matched up). We stuck a bootable floppy in but no go. I put 3 new floppys in to see if that was the problem - NO! Then out of nowhere on the next boot-up we got no video? We tried a new video card but no dice. Then I reseated the video card along with taking the CPU out and reseating that. I started it back up but just a blank screen. It won’t read video now. I can’t do anything with the computer. I tried clearing the CMOS with the jumper and battery and everything but still nothing.
Could this possibly be something with incompatibility with my hardware? Could it be a bad power supply? Could the processor be bad? Memory? ANY IDEAS?? I am so frustrated and lost that I don’t know what to do. My other computer is an AMD XP and I never ran into any problems such as this. None of the people I have asked have seen this either. HELP ME PLEASE!!!
Chad