Curse

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 03:41 AM // 03:41

ARG!!!!

Guild Wars fried my power supply, which fried my video card. Then when I switched to Integrated video for about five to ten minutes, it (the bad power supply) fried my motherboard.

SO.

I have a new power supply. Good quality 350 watt.

New video card. 256 MB DDR Ram on the video card...

Still no signal from the computer to the monitor. I've done everything I know. Now I'm shopping for a new motherboard. I hate my life. This thing's only five months old. Curse me for building my own computer.

So....i don't remember what kind of processor I have.

It's completely dead and no way of booting...well, there is, but you can't see anything to do anything.

I have an AMD Athlon processor, about 90% sure it's an AMD Athlon XP but I don't know if it's Duron or Sempron or what. I've got 512 DDR RAM and a 120-gig hard drive.

Um...yeah.

R A C · Feb 07, 2006, 03:53 AM // 03:53

You built your own rig 5 months and can't remember the processor? Got receipts or confirmation email (if it was online store)? Should say on there. I hope you learned that it never hurts to spend a bit extra on getting a good psu. Are you sure the new vid card is seated right? Just checking just in case, sounds like it's time for a new mobo IMO. Hopefully the cpu is all right.

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 04:04 AM // 04:04

A friend got most of the parts from a magazine order type thing. He had the power supply spare (which i now realize is what caused everything...) but ordered all the parts and everything for me. I was just there when he put it together, and started learning from there.

First...

There was a glitch on the screen and a loud, sustained beep. I shut the computer down. I remarked that it started up faster than it has in the past month. Ten minutes later, it turns off - as though someone had unplugged it. I couldn't get it to start.

We cleaned and got it to start. But nothing was sending to the monitor from the video card. So I swiched over to the integraded video, and it worked. Very horribly, but it worked. For five minutes.

Then it shut down again abruptly, and the same thing happened. Fans on and stuff, but nothing sending to the monitor. Then I would get a spurt of power, and then nothing. I got a new power supply from the tech guys, and it worked...but nothing going to the monitor.

So I bought a new AGP vid card and power supply. We're back to "nothing going to the monitor". The monitor is good, we checked that. It's not the video card. Only thing left is the motherboard.

:: sigh ::

Da Immortal King · Feb 07, 2006, 04:30 AM // 04:30

When i switched my new vid card nothing showed up on the monitor except after a few reboots.

EternalTempest · Feb 07, 2006, 07:30 AM // 07:30

Or the power supply good of fried B, C, D, E, F components

and re-zapped replaced parts before the power supply was replaced.

I have a friend that had a pc that the powersupply fried just about everything on his cutom built pc. Kinda worked for a bit then stopped and kept redamaging new parts until we figured out it was the power supply.

It changed the way I build PC. Top of the line memory, mother board, and powers supply as the base. Build from there.

What it really sounds like you have two hardware problems making it very hard to pinpoint, or a damage component damaged an replaced component.

SaucE · Feb 07, 2006, 12:17 PM // 12:17

If you got the parts 5 months ago, RMA them.

PS> Power supply is the most important part of your computer.

PSS> A 256MB Video card isn't always better than one with 128MB. Its all about the GPU.

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 05:13 PM // 17:13

Well, I figure that a Radeon 9550 is a pretty good video card. Just couldn't remember the name last night.

I got a new power supply in there before i put the new vid card in. The remaining components to check is basically the RAM, the motherboard, and the hard drive.

:: groan ::

Loviatar · Feb 07, 2006, 05:21 PM // 17:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shantel Span

I got a new power supply in there before i put the new vid card in. The remaining components to check is basically the RAM, the motherboard, and the hard drive.

:: groan ::

what brand is the power supply? (and price and how much does it weigh)?

if you got the store *this is our super duper best we got power supply* it still may be a dog

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 05:24 PM // 17:24

It's a very heavy 350 watt Antec SmartPower 2.0 I got at Best Buy for $60.

Loviatar · Feb 07, 2006, 05:27 PM // 17:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shantel Span

It's a very heavy 350 watt Antec SmartPower 2.0 I got at Best Buy for $60.

good

a fast learner.

i have older Antec True Power in both pc i built (380w and 430 w)

both have given years of perfect service so far

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 05:30 PM // 17:30

Good to hear. I'm NOT building another PC with shoddy parts that will fry out on me in five months.

Still might be needing a motherboard.

I heard that newegg.com gives some good stuff but i was looking on there and i hardly recognized any of the brands.

EiS · Feb 07, 2006, 08:03 PM // 20:03

if you looking for motherboards i would go with ASUS MSI is pretty good to and also i found i have never had a problem with gigabyte motherboards eather if you not looking for any Overclocking functions gigabyte is good but if you want decent OCing options and stability then go ASUS

Loviatar · Feb 07, 2006, 08:13 PM // 20:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shantel Span

Good to hear. I'm NOT building another PC with shoddy parts that will fry out on me in five months.

Still might be needing a motherboard.

I heard that newegg.com gives some good stuff but i was looking on there and i hardly recognized any of the brands.

i have been getting my parts from Newegg.com for years.

absolutely dependable with good prices/shipping costs

Josh · Feb 07, 2006, 08:54 PM // 20:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loviatar

i have been getting my parts from Newegg.com for years.

absolutely dependable with good prices/shipping costs

So are the products from what I hear.

Too bad I'm in England.

Rayea · Feb 07, 2006, 09:10 PM // 21:10

ok..when you boot up (or try to) do you get the single quick Beep noise from the pc?

if not, its ethe the chip or the board, or both..., sorry, man.

if you bought about 5 months ago, you *might* still have a athlon, but i think its more likely to be an amd sempron...we havent been able to buy athlon chips (like amd athlon1700) for over a year, and only a single type and brand of mainboard for said type of chip.

might be worth bighting the bullet and moving up to athlon64 in the socket 939 type...i did the same when my north and south briges blew my board, vid card and hdd..

however, since my gaming is lower end (ie, no fps or high end style mod games lol, just good old GW and Maple and AO) it should last me about 2-3 years....

we mainly use gigabyte, asus and a-bit mainboards as staples, but the boss has begun to buy items like thermaltake *finally, after much twining from me*
so were not too bad hehe.

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 10:08 PM // 22:08

No beeps.

My friend called his uncle who is good with computers, i guess, and says that if the motherboard has power (the fans spin, but there aren't any LEDs on the motherboard or CMOS) then it might be the processor...

/sigh...looking at new motherboards + processors. This is a whole friggin' rebuild process...

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 10:21 PM // 22:21

What do you guys think of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131535

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...239&CatId=1181

Rayea · Feb 07, 2006, 10:30 PM // 22:30

aye, it can be frustraiting.....
try swaping mainboard out, then replacing psu, then another chip, then another different chip...lastly, poping the original mainboard and psu back into case with a working chip, all in the space of 1 hour..^^ exhasting lol
especialy when it could have been just swaping for the working chip after 5 mins with heatsinc off.....but then, im just a girl

(sarcasme) what would i know whn i can get one rol per day, per machine natural 20 on resurection:dead pc

asus are a good brand, we use them (v8 i think and v8 delux) mainly for athlon64 builds...delux is nice, has lots of extras compared to the normal one..its just getting peeps to pay for a more expensive board lol....i swear, everyone i build ends up going to boot sales to sell bootleg dvd *kidding*

Josh · Feb 07, 2006, 10:36 PM // 22:36

Not that mobo, it only has AGP.

Try one with PCI-E?

Shantel Span · Feb 07, 2006, 10:39 PM // 22:39

Either I get the Biostar and keep my vid card...or get the Asus one and return the vid card...i looked closer and the Asus doesn't have an AGP slot but instead has a PCI Express x16 slot. Which i don't have anything to go in there.

Thanks a ton for your advice!