-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Trying to building a P4 PC - unsuccessfully!
- From: "suzanne" <lailoken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:27:27 -0500
hey there Jeff... I recently had such an experience after my pIII board
flipped a widget... spent many hours searching for all the right
[affordable] parts to build my new machine. I've got it back, mostly... but
it can get quite frustrating!
one thing to check is your floppy drive... if the cable isn't properly lined
up with pin one, I have found that several boards will not fire up.
just my immediate thought... this is very hard to diagnose thru email.... if
you can test the various pieces partses on another system, that may narrow
it down for you... just don't give up!
~s
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Fleet"
> Hello all,
> Please let me tell you this tale of woe & I ask if anyone can offer any
> suggestions. I decided to build a computer from scratch. I decided to
> purchase my components from ebay. I purchased at D850GB motherboard to
take
> a socket 423 Pentium 4 processor, then 2 x 512mb of PC800 SDRAM,
soundcard,
> tower c/w power supply, 64mb PCI graphics card, 80gb HDD, DVD/CDROM and a
CD
> re-writer. Finally, I purchased a "pulled non-tested" 1.9GHZ CPU. However,
> when the seller came to dispatch the item, she discovered that it was only
> 1.7GHZ & so sent me that along with another 1.4GHZ free of charge. After
> building the machine, on my first boot, the motherboard lit up with its
> LED's & heat sink came on & no warning bleeps, but nothing came on screen
at
> all. So I swapped the 1.7GHZ for the 1.4GHZ but gain nothing. I stripped
the
> machine so that the other drives etc were not connected, but nothing on
> screen again. A friend was able to test the memory & that worked fine. I
> defiantly had the two continuous RIMMS in the right place & even swapped
> them around, but the problem was not there. Ok, I thought, I must have a
> faulty motherboard, so I purchased another - again nothing but a blank
> screen. I tried a friends AGP card instead of my PCI graphics card. I am
> totally dumfounded as what to do next apart from buying another CPU,
> possibly with a 423 pin to 478 pin converter on it. Can anybody suggest
> anything else or have any ideas?
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