Brooner's Broken Computer

[CaffeinePowered]

Brooner asked me to post a topic that his PC had bit the dust and he was looking for donation parts if anyone had anything lying around.

What he needs is a new motherboard, now I'm not entirely sure what sort of processor or memory he had, but if someone had a complete set that would probably be ideal.

I have his phone number so I can get a hold of him if anyone has anything they can donate.

[Eightball]

All I really have to spare is an old ATI 4650. If he needs a low-level video card, I'd be fine with parting with it :x

[Ianki]

i have a really old pentium 4, and some ddr1 ram lying around, but that is predicated on his motherboard taking socket 775 and old ddr mem and me getting money to ship stuff.

Even then, it would be a pretty shitty build.

[KarthXLR]

Bah, wouldn't have scrapped my old PC if I had known someone could of used it.

I have some DDR2 RAM, a 250 watt power-supply, and 9800 GT lying around if he needs it.

[at0m]

I've got 2GB of DDR2 800 memory, a sketchy PCI-X GeForce 8600 GT (thermal problems, possibly bad), and a PSU (400W I think, could be 600). I've also got an AGP 8x GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (also sketchy, fan failed and it overheated, fan's been replaced but the card hasn't been used since). Any/all are free to a good home that's willing to pay shipping.

[CaffeinePowered]

He told me he still has and Athlon 64x2, RAM, and a PCI-E Card, but Im not sure if thats socket AM2 or 939...

[Kirby]

He told me he still has and Athlon 64x2, RAM, and a PCI-E Card, but Im not sure if thats socket AM2 or 939...

Have him give you the info etched on the CPU, if he's out a mobo already that means he's gonna have to pull HS/Fan off and clean the paste off anyway.

[KarthXLR]

If by-chance he needs a keyboard, I have an default hp keyboard (not particularly great condition) that I'm swapping out for a g15.

[Versus]

guys i have a parallel port gamepad, he needs one of those right

[broonor]

I've got 2GB of DDR2 800 memory, a sketchy PCI-X GeForce 8600 GT (thermal problems, possibly bad), and a PSU (400W I think, could be 600). I've also got an AGP 8x GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (also sketchy, fan failed and it overheated, fan's been replaced but the card hasn't been used since). Any/all are free to a good home that's willing to pay shipping.

That video card is what caused the demise of my board actually.

Here's my current situation: I have a donor box with everything I need, but it won't power on fully.  The board will receive power and all the fans turn on, but the LEDs on the memory sticks (good ol' corsair) won't light every time the system powers on.  I was able to get the computer to properly turn on and post once.  When I put my other power supply in (due to requirements of connectors) the board was back to its non-posting ways. 

could that be caused by a too-small power supply?  There's not a whole lot plugged in to the machine, but 450 (old ps) and 550 (was in "new" case) aren't able to consistently power on the machine. 

Have I destroyed a second motherboard?

I tried the old trick of unplugging and reseeding everything in the case.  I may be hosed again unless I want to go back to the stone ages of computer power.

[Ianki]

[quote author=at0m link=topic=4939.msg171449#msg171449 date=1283045999]
I've got 2GB of DDR2 800 memory, a sketchy PCI-X GeForce 8600 GT (thermal problems, possibly bad), and a PSU (400W I think, could be 600). I've also got an AGP 8x GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (also sketchy, fan failed and it overheated, fan's been replaced but the card hasn't been used since). Any/all are free to a good home that's willing to pay shipping.

That video card is what caused the demise of my board actually.

Here's my current situation: I have a donor box with everything I need, but it won't power on fully.  The board will receive power and all the fans turn on, but the LEDs on the memory sticks (good ol' corsair) won't light every time the system powers on.  I was able to get the computer to properly turn on and post once.  When I put my other power supply in (due to requirements of connectors) the board was back to its non-posting ways. 

could that be caused by a too-small power supply?  There's not a whole lot plugged in to the machine, but 450 (old ps) and 550 (was in "new" case) aren't able to consistently power on the machine. 

Have I destroyed a second motherboard?

I tried the old trick of unplugging and reseeding everything in the case.  I may be hosed again unless I want to go back to the stone ages of computer power.
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Ram is seated right and the cmos jumper is on normal?

[broonor]

I double check the jumper tonight, but I've reseeded the memory multiple times.  Once more couldn't hurt  b)

[CaffeinePowered]

I double check the jumper tonight, but I've reseeded the memory multiple times.  Once more couldn't hurt  b)

Try hooking up nothing except for the motherboard and video card, no HDDs, nothing, and see if you can at least get it to halt on POST when it can't find an OS to boot.

[broonor]

[quote author=broonor link=topic=4939.msg171848#msg171848 date=1283276842]
I double check the jumper tonight, but I've reseeded the memory multiple times.  Once more couldn't hurt  b)

Try hooking up nothing except for the motherboard and video card, no HDDs, nothing, and see if you can at least get it to halt on POST when it can't find an OS to boot.
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No dice.  Now I'm not getting anything when pressing the power button on the case.  Need to print out the jumper diagram from manual online and try manually starting the board.  Beginning to get frustrated.

[Kirby]

[quote author=Caffeine link=topic=4939.msg171849#msg171849 date=1283276932]
[quote author=broonor link=topic=4939.msg171848#msg171848 date=1283276842]
I double check the jumper tonight, but I've reseeded the memory multiple times.  Once more couldn't hurt  b)

Try hooking up nothing except for the motherboard and video card, no HDDs, nothing, and see if you can at least get it to halt on POST when it can't find an OS to boot.
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No dice.  Now I'm not getting anything when pressing the power button on the case.  Need to print out the jumper diagram from manual online and try manually starting the board.  Beginning to get frustrated.
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Green wire in the main bundle, short that to any of the black wires.

[broonor]

while plugged in board? or separate to test ps

[at0m]

If you try to run the PS separate from the mobo, you run the risk of damaging it, and won't be able to test it properly anyways. Plug it in.

[broonor]

do i need to strip the wire to do it? i can't force the wire out from the 24 pin unless i'm doing it wrong

[broonor]

do i need to strip the wire to do it? i can't force the wire out from the 24 pin unless i'm doing it wrong

noob bump for answer

[at0m]

power isn't on the 24-pin, he's talking about the switch header on the mobo I thought