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Right, I flashed the BIOS, all is well on the BIOS reading front, I can format and install all the windows files, but, after it gets to 100%, the screen goes black, then the blue error screen appears :dry: :dry: :dry:
This time it's telling me that the HDD might have viruses and to run check disk :ermm:
If it was me, I might try repartitioning it, and I'd also have a look in bios to see that it's detected correctly and all that.
Take a look at the LBA mode thing http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showt...light=LBA+mode
But seeing as how I was so much help before, the answer is prolly something else :P
Right, tried installing again (this time will a smaller partition) and this time, our old friend Mr. Blue Screen said "Check With Your Vender For Any Hardware Updates, Disable BIOS Memory Options Such As Caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to..." and so on :frusty:
been at this for awhile now, I'll be back tomorrow morning if anyone would like to leave a suitable solution :naughty: ebuyer, btw, have already RMA'd it and asked for it to be sent :01:
SnnY, just saw your post, I'll look into that in the morning thnx :01:
Morning Gents http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...der/hat3mk.gif
Just looked through all of the BIOS and didn't see an option for LBA anywhere :unsure:
I seriously think it's the BIOS chip, somehow :unsure: The blue screen messages are varied and suggest options that can only be done with Windows installed (Like running in Safe Mode).
But, on the POST screen, everything checks out since flashing the BIOS, but that's not to say the chip still isn't damaged right?
(I've only got today left to work on this :ermm: )
If possible you should really test the drive (and maybe the sticks) in another machine.
It's frikkin hard to rule things out when you don't know if the stuff worked to begin with.
I don't suppose you have a knoppix-disk lying around, btw? If so you could boot from that and see if you get any hardware errors.
there's no other machine that the sticks could be tested in :no: someones bringing over an old base unit later on, so the CD/HDD can be tested.
Linux you say? haven't got any distros to hand, but i'll d/l a copy of Kanotix and give it ago :01:
http://www.knoppix.org/
^my favourite.
I've used it before on buggered machines.
If the hd is working, and the partition is good it'll pop up in knoppix.
If you get any errors during bootup those could tell you something about your hardware. It's worth trying imo.
Bah, I'm calling it a day - it's too fecking hot :no: It'll be two or three weeks till I can fit the new mobo, so until then... :ermm:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...er/quality.jpg
for no reason other than there was a webcam near by, and it looks fecking hawt, a pic of the current set-up :01:
Well the new motherboard came, I installed it and big fucking suprise it doesn't fucking work! :angry:
Everything but the CPU has been tested, from all this, does it sound like the CPU could cause it all? :ermm:
Did you flash the new one too?
yeah i flashed it real nice :dry:
And I suppose you've still got no other processor to try? :unsure:
Sucky situation you've got there.
could it be the processor? :mellow:
do you really think it's worth sending the processor back? i've got limited experience with processor problems and wouldn't know what the symptoms would be :unsure:
Feck knows, I've never had one fail on me.
In fact I've never had a machine work as badly as hers does, from the get-go.
Ones I put together usually (always, really) work, at least until I get experimental.
(see other thread for examples of me getting experimental)
It had to be something other than the mobo as it keeps doing it, that much is certain.
Unless those PCchips mobos are so crap that they can't handle what they are supposed to. You could call the people you ordered it from and ask them what they think.
Also, I'd have thought they tested the mobo before they sent you a new one. That's how my supplier does regarding RMAs.
Just saw this review for teh mobo, could the graphics card be messing everything up?Quote:
“Beware that the SiS748 chipset does not support AGP 1x and 2x graphics cards which require 3.3V. Only the 1.5V cards can be used. I only discovered this after I bought a motherboard with this chipset and then discovered my graphics card runs at 3.3V, although this information is not easy to find.”
We have Radeon 7000 64MB AGP DDR TV-Out, can't find teh voltage anywhere :unsure:
http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/...atibility.html
^re: agp cards.
That tells you the voltage, but the best way to make sure that it has nothing to do with your graphics card is to try another one, of course.
Your card....
We recently dealt with a new build that exhibited behaviour similar to yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Radeon
After replacing the board AND processor, the tech finally swapped out the vid card (which had already POSTed in a different PC) and the problem was solved.
My first NF3 DFI LanParty motherboard refused to POST with a ATI 9600XT installed...a card which still lives on in my father's machine.
The point being that yes, video cards can seriously screw up your diagnostics.
Your best and easiest next move might be to install an old PCI vid card and see what happens.
That way you have bypassed the AGP bus altogether and can go from there.
The graphics card is sounding more and more like the culprit, the blue screens occur in safe mode just before the logon screen, after the text commands have gone, and in normal mode, almost instantly, which is right before the graphic windows boot screen appears
sounds about right, does it not? Cos all the blue screen messages have never once mentioned teh graphics?
Oh, if only I had remembered this earlier.
Now that you've mentioned the potential graphics card compatibility problem I remember having almost exactly the same problems just about 2½ years ago.
I spent about 2 weeks taking motherboards back to my supplier, and eventually got a different mobo. About a week later they announced an incompatibility between the mobo and the graphics card. I think that particular card was an 8500, but the incompatibility they announced was different. I think just about any Radeon card caused problems with that mobo, so you may find the same thing.
Clocker and Lynx's stories have got me convinced it's the graphics card, We've just ordered a Inno3D GF2 MX400 64mb to replace the 7000 AGP, it will work :)
I admire your optimism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder
Hope it is warrented.
didn't work :)
Bummer, dude.
What now?
i'm going to scoop out Scully's insides and use them :sadwalk:
It was the graphics card(s), I had gotten two broken cards in a row :)
:lol: Shit luck.
So everything is finally up and running? :)
Yeah all original parts plus the new card are up and running, i had to take it into a shop to find this out, came to £20 which I suppose isn't too bad compared to most places :ermm: bought a card of them for £40 too, so it's all sorted :01:
SOmetimes that is easier, since they have extra parts to test with. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder
Oh yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossco
People calling for (free) telephone tech support always get pissed when I tell them to "swap out the PSU (or whatever the suspect part may be)" to see if that solves the problem.
"But...but, I don't have a spare power supply to stick in there!?"
"Gee.
Sucks to be you, hey?"