-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Trying to building a P4 PC - unsuccessfully!
- From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:09:54 -0400
I have a friend trying to talk me into building my own computer.
I laughed at him!!!
I really hope you get it going - I am envious of the knowlege
to be able to do this!
crisS
----- Original Message -----
From: Foxhillers@xxxxxxx
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 12:50 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Trying to building a P4 PC - unsuccessfully!
Jeff
Did your motherboard come with a manual? Check what processor speed it
will take and also what RAM chip speed it will take.
Also, try with just one RAM chip in Bank 0.
Have fun! I just went through a week of misery on a mere upgrade.
mjh
In a message dated 9/13/03 6:00:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jeff.fleet@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 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?
>
> Jeff
>
MJH
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