03-27-2005, 06:16 PM
To sum up: Bought a new CPU, motherboard, and a 512MB stick of RAM, put it all in the computer, and now... it's not working. (I'll list the parts at the end.)
The symptoms: Nothing happens when I turn the power on, then I get a long short short short beep code, then a few seconds later it turns off. The monitor is blank throughout this.
Now, I'm not sure what BIOS I have, but the beep code indicates either "Conventional/Extended Memory" problem or something to do with the video card. My bet is it's something to do with the video card, based on the symptoms. Also, I tried taking out the video card and starting it and got the same result.
I'm confused as to why the video card wouldn't be working with this computer though. I've been using the video card (Radeon 9200se) for a while in the old computer just fine. The only thing that I think I could see being the problem is that there's a warning on the manual saying that this motherboard won't work with 3.3 volt cards, but after a search on google, I drew the conclusion that only old videocards, 2x I think, were 3.3 volts. The Radeon is a 4x/8x card.
So I'm stumped. Here are the new parts I'm using:
Athlon64 3000+ S754 512K AMD Athlon64 3000+ PIB 2.0ghz Socket 754 512K L2 800FSB (retail)
KV8 Pro VIA K8T800 AGP8X S754/800FSB DDR400 Dual-ATA133 Dual-SATA-RAID-0,1 Audio GLAN, 8USB
Samsung DDR400 512M OEM PC3200 512M DDR400 184pin OEM pack
And the videocard is a Radeon 9200se.
If you need any more information, feel free to ask, and if you know ANYTHING or have even just a tiny idea, please don't hesitate to post.
Thank you.
The symptoms: Nothing happens when I turn the power on, then I get a long short short short beep code, then a few seconds later it turns off. The monitor is blank throughout this.
Now, I'm not sure what BIOS I have, but the beep code indicates either "Conventional/Extended Memory" problem or something to do with the video card. My bet is it's something to do with the video card, based on the symptoms. Also, I tried taking out the video card and starting it and got the same result.
I'm confused as to why the video card wouldn't be working with this computer though. I've been using the video card (Radeon 9200se) for a while in the old computer just fine. The only thing that I think I could see being the problem is that there's a warning on the manual saying that this motherboard won't work with 3.3 volt cards, but after a search on google, I drew the conclusion that only old videocards, 2x I think, were 3.3 volts. The Radeon is a 4x/8x card.
So I'm stumped. Here are the new parts I'm using:
Athlon64 3000+ S754 512K AMD Athlon64 3000+ PIB 2.0ghz Socket 754 512K L2 800FSB (retail)
KV8 Pro VIA K8T800 AGP8X S754/800FSB DDR400 Dual-ATA133 Dual-SATA-RAID-0,1 Audio GLAN, 8USB
Samsung DDR400 512M OEM PC3200 512M DDR400 184pin OEM pack
And the videocard is a Radeon 9200se.
If you need any more information, feel free to ask, and if you know ANYTHING or have even just a tiny idea, please don't hesitate to post.
Thank you.