Thanks for the suggestions, I may try to get him to let me do that, but he really just wanted to get the thing together as quickly as possible..if it were mine, I'd have everything as cool and silent as possible with all the wires tucked...
You should be able to look at the pics now..I'll try to get over to his house and run some benchmarks, but he may not let me use it for a day or two because he just bought HL2..
Thanks, we got it working..I put in a 512 MB stick of Kingmax RAM and it posted just fine. I don't know why the Pqi RAM won't work..it works in my Athlon XP machine just fine..
Quote:
Originally Posted by Melodis
I'm assuming you mean you can't get the system to POST, not boot. Are you hearing any beep codes? Did your mainboard come with an onboard video card?
Yeah, sorry, I meant...
I put it all together last night, but it won't boot. The case fan, cpu fan, and video card fan come on, and the hard drive and cd-rom drives also have power, but the LCD does not get a video signal. I am going to try different RAM...
I am ordering these components right now from zipzoomfly.com:
Sapphire 9800 Pro - $199.99
A64 3000+ Skt939 - $152.90
MSI K8TNeo2-F - $104.00
And this RAM from newegg.com:
Pqi TURBO PC3200 256x2 - $74.00 after $10 rebate...
Quote:
Originally Posted by NovaShine
Keep us posted. Before/After benchmarks? Pics?
Definitely, we should be ordering everything tonight/tomorrow, however, my friend just kind of changed his mind and upped his...
