[pchelpers] Round one goes to the computer.

Well my new board came in.
I place the 3700 cpu in and it fired right up.
Surprised me that XP didn't complain or anything.
Didn't have to re-activate.
I let it run for about an hour, and then I ran the Network
setup to try to get it connected to the internet again.
It had me to re-boot and then that was all she wrote.

The computer would power-up. (fans all start to spin)
But it would not Post.

After a while I found that the HD was not spinning up.
I removed the IDE cable and then the HD would spin up.
replace the cable and no spin.

I got the MB out of the case with nothing but memory, cpu,
and a vidcard. Still no Post.

I even clear the cmos as I had turned on a bunch of stuff
just before it stopped.

I then took the 3700 out and place it in my internet server.
It started fine.
I took the 3000 cpu from the internet server and put it in the
new board and still no Post.

I must have gotten a bad board. What can I expect for going cheap.
Winfast (foxconn)NF4SK8AA-8KRS NF4SLI 939 $79

I have given up, I went and bought all new parts

*AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Processor Model 
ADO3600CUBOX - Retail 
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103760>

* *EVGA 122-M2-NF59-TR Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD 
Motherboard - Retail 
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188016>

* *WINTEC AMPO 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 
Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 3AMD2800-1G1K-R - Retail 
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820161067>

*PS575XBK -- Logisys 575W 20+4-pin Dual Fan ATX Power Supply SLI Ready! 
<http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PS575XBK>

Everything came to around $275

Cheap when compared to the headaches the old system was giving me.

I moved the old 600W power supply, the 3700 cpu and the 2 gig of memory 
over to the internet server..
Now it is running twice as fast and I have a spare 3000 cpu if this one 
goes bad.

I kept the old CPU fan from the 3000 to use on the 3700.

I'm not sure about the fan that I was using on the 3700. It is a 64 
freezer Pro.
I don't like the design. I notice that I had to put a lot of downward 
pressure to get
the clips to hook in place. And then when I moved the lever to lock it, 
it took a lot
of force. It almost looked like it was warping the board or cpu socket. 
I wonder if this
could have been my problem with these two boards.

My son took the first MB, the one that wouldn't power-up.
He has it now with just a power supply hooked to it and nothing else.
The chipset fan is running showing us that now it is powering up.
In a few days he is going to install a cpu and fan and mem and sees what 
happens.

Pc




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