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Valius Altmer
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Posted - 2006.01.06 07:32:00 -
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ok i have just finished, or at least thought i finished, building my new machine...so far it has done nothing but cause trouble. First here is my setup:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
2gb Dual-Channel Kingston RAM (2 x 1gb)
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro video card
Maxtor 250gb 7200RPM SATA2 HDD
Maxtor 80gb 7200 RPM IDE HDD (boot drive)
Maxtor 30gb 5400 RPM IDE HDD (plugged into power but left unformatted for time being)
ASPIRE 500w powersupply (with 20-pin to 24-pin adapter as i took this out of my last tower)
and a dvd-rom drive, FDD, and cd-rw drive roommate gave me to use
After putting it all together it booted up fine. Installed windows xp pro, graphics driver and drivers from the MoBo's driver cd all ok. After installing EVE, battlefield 2, and DOOM 3 on it to test it out everything ran fine with grpahics all maxed out. Then right away it started crashing, freezing up so everything on screen just stopped even though tower never shutoff or rebooted (fans still turned and LEDs stayed lit). I've removed some of the hardware i didn't need so now i have plugged in:
Mobo, vid card, ram, cd-rw drive, and sata drive. (unplugged both IDE HDDs and FDD from mobo and PS)
Reinstalled windows on the SATA drive on a fresh partition. Windows installed fine (or so i thought). reinstalled BF2 (few files hung for a while though before installing), downled BF2 update..but windows kept failing to run teh partition..so i rebooted. Upon reboot computer froze trying to load windows. on next reboot bios no longer read a SATA drive conneced to it even though it was still plugged in to both mobo and PS. I've been asking around but stil have't gotten any answers other than bad PS or video card. at first we thought it was the mobo but not sure. Any ideas?
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Zakalwe
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Posted - 2006.01.06 12:46:00 -
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ATI
Hmmm...
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ShipOholic
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Posted - 2006.01.06 12:49:00 -
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If it only happends when you start gaming it surely is either soundcard, graphiccard or your drivers to these.
You could check your virtual memory so it isnt too low aswell.
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Eewec Ourbyni
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Posted - 2006.01.06 12:53:00 -
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500w powersupply may seem like enough for that lot.. but you might find that one or more rails are overloaded.. try balancing the connections across the rails and see what happens.
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Wuuf Bika
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Posted - 2006.01.06 12:55:00 -
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Hey Valius,
I had the same problem, well similar, built new machine, ASUS mobo (A8V deluxe)
and ATI9800 pro, seems the ASUS mobo has issues with certain ATI cards, I swapped the ATI for a GF 6800 and no more problems. My bro had exactly the same machine built but with a ATI X800, he had no problems, so you may wanna try a m8s Geforce card before buying another card...
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Nurmana
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Posted - 2006.01.06 12:56:00 -
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power down your system; restart it and next step should be to check if the HDD is being recognized in bios of the mainboard. if not => hdd defect. also go to the maxtor homepage and download the diagnostic software from them and let it check the drive. thats what i would do if my drive disappears and windows canŠt access it. I had enough maxtor drives seen failing in the recent time so this maybe the issue here.
hope this helps.
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Shinboner
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Posted - 2006.01.06 12:58:00 -
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I would say it's the PSU man.. i had the same problem when i upgraded to a 4200 Dual core and a gigabtye 7800gtx, i used a 500 watt powersupply from my old tower. Everything installed fine but as soon i would start gaming i got random errors..
have purchesed a new power supply 620 watt SLI certified and smooth sailing so far :)
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Valius Altmer
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Posted - 2006.01.07 08:45:00 -
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 Originally by: Eewec Ourbyni
500w powersupply may seem like enough for that lot.. but you might find that one or more rails are overloaded.. try balancing the connections across the rails and see what happens.
ok rereading the manual i found that if you are using a PSU with only a 20-pin main connector, then i gotta plug one of the P4 connectors into the "ASUS EZ_PLuG" which sits on the mobo by the vid card...so did that gonna see what happens. i als read that a common problem is that SLI boards usually require a minimum of 30A from the 12V connector..and that most PSUs only give 15...so you need to get a PSU with multiple 12V connectors...well my board only have 1 12v connector on it and specs on my PSU itself say its max is 34A.
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