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| Thread ID: 85647 | 2007-12-17 09:27:00 | Motherboard Problem or What? | Norseguy (12873) | Press F1 |
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| 622045 | 2007-12-18 19:08:00 | Anyone have any idea where the problem is likely to be comign from? As in could it be the video card, or cpu? | Norseguy (12873) | ||
| 622046 | 2007-12-18 20:24:00 | Is there a Diagnostic Utility for Motherboards? I know there are utilities for testing RAM and Harddisks. When Motherboards are concerned, is 'trial and error' the only way to diagnose its integrity? Replacing a MB is not a simple job like changing a RAM stick or a HDD; how do you professional computer techs go about? | bk T (215) | ||
| 622047 | 2007-12-18 21:04:00 | Yeah, I'm most likely going to have to go through the process of elimination to figure out what the problem is, and currently I don't have any extra parts that would work with this setup. | Norseguy (12873) | ||
| 622048 | 2007-12-18 21:14:00 | Anyone have any idea where the problem is likely to be comign from? As in could it be the video card, or cpu? Well the CPU isn't incompatible, maybe it's faulty? If the extra motherboard mounts were shorting out the CPU socket perhaps it killed the CPU? Same could be said for the video card. a fried CPU is more likely to stop the whole system, whereas a dead video card should allow the computer to start, but generate an error, although this is not a guarantee. Test your CPU and then video, maybe RAM too in a different computer, see what happens there, make sure they all work fine Did you connect all the correct power connectors to all the right places, extra 12v for CPU, extra power for video, + anything else it needs? not connecting these is a good way to stop an otherwise working computer from, well, working. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 622049 | 2007-12-18 21:19:00 | Is there a Diagnostic Utility for Motherboards? I know there are utilities for testing RAM and Harddisks. When Motherboards are concerned, is 'trial and error' the only way to diagnose its integrity? Replacing a MB is not a simple job like changing a RAM stick or a HDD; how do you professional computer techs go about? Well this one has a diagnostic utility inbuilt - the LED Post code display. You can also get plug-in PCI cards with this LED display on them, but I'm not sure how good they are (I bought a cheap one for a joke, it's pretty sad, there are probably much better ones available) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 622050 | 2007-12-18 22:04:00 | Have you taken out all non essential components? Graphics cards, sound cards etc? take them out entirely, or you could disable them in BIOS, just to make sure it's not them, and then test your RAM in another comp as it says above. If I were you I'd just take the free board and start again from there. Save yourself the stress. But it's really up to you. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 622051 | 2007-12-19 07:52:00 | Yeah, I'm going to get the board and try it again.. and if it still doesn't work I'm sending it back for another one. | Norseguy (12873) | ||
| 622052 | 2007-12-28 06:17:00 | I didn't send it back, instead I had a few technicians test out the parts with diagnostic machines, and all of the parts seemed fine according to them as well. Someone said that the bios is looking for a pci video card and because I have a pcie one it's causing conflict. What could be the issue if all of the parts are working? and I'm still seeing this - - on the error led which as evga customer support told me that means the motherboard isn't passing post. So I'm not sure if I should be replacing some parts or not, and it makes it difficult when I don't know what works and technians are telling me my parts are fine. |
Norseguy (12873) | ||
| 622053 | 2007-12-28 06:43:00 | I've also been told I need to have an operating system installed, when I put an os cd in nothing came up and the screen remained blank however. Other people who're not technicians but have put together computers time and time again have said that sounds strange that you'd need an os on your hardrive before you could get a signal through your monitor detecting the video card. | Norseguy (12873) | ||
| 622054 | 2007-12-28 06:52:00 | You do not need anything other than Motherboard, PSU, Video card, RAM and CPU, to get a basic idea of the setup working. When those 5 are working you would get a display and a 'No keyboard' and/or other errors on screen. Those are the 5 required items for a computer to start and pass the Power On Self Test (POST), which is hardware only and has nothing to do with your OS. You need POST to pass before you can even think about installing an OS, so that's not the problem. If all your parts are tested to work fine (and the techs should be right) then I would think incompatibility (somehow). has everything been tested? even PSU? even anything that's plugged in? (eg: a badly faulty mouse could even screw the whole thing up) |
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