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....after first time starting PC, video card will not display
Hi,
Last night i put together a PC and when i started for first time CMOS setup come up. I started to go through and check setings. Then in about 5 minits it sudenly the last 5 lines was of letters " eeeeeeeeeee" and it frezed. So i powerd down and on, but from now on when i start nothing is displayed. I can hear that fan for power supply and CPU works, the Led light in front come up and down but nothing is displayed. I have syntax k7s746fx motherboard with socket A and AMD XP + 2600 processor. I also have installed 512 MB PC3200 NON ECC DDR DIMM RAM. The motherboard does not have build in Video interface(no port), but has AGP 3.0(8xAGP). So we installed Verto graphic card GeForce4 MX 440 8x. I wonder if anyone has ideas of what is the problem? I would appreciate any help. Thank's Margots P.S. by the way this is my first time puting PC together, so perhaps it migth be something simple. |
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won't display the desktop or won't display even the post screen? safe
mode and check the driver install if it won't display desktop. If its no post screen, I suggest a reseating of the vidcard, no results? unplug all other peripherals (HD's, USB devices, CD-ROM's) anything that's drawing power, other than the vidcard. Boot? have the post screen? then possible PSU problem. You could have it checked, however with a chance of failure and other component damage, you could plug one device in at a time and watch the results. or have a spare? HTH "Margots" wrote in message m... Hi, Last night i put together a PC and when i started for first time CMOS setup come up. I started to go through and check setings. Then in about 5 minits it sudenly the last 5 lines was of letters " eeeeeeeeeee" and it frezed. So i powerd down and on, but from now on when i start nothing is displayed. I can hear that fan for power supply and CPU works, the Led light in front come up and down but nothing is displayed. I have syntax k7s746fx motherboard with socket A and AMD XP + 2600 processor. I also have installed 512 MB PC3200 NON ECC DDR DIMM RAM. The motherboard does not have build in Video interface(no port), but has AGP 3.0(8xAGP). So we installed Verto graphic card GeForce4 MX 440 8x. I wonder if anyone has ideas of what is the problem? I would appreciate any help. Thank's Margots P.S. by the way this is my first time puting PC together, so perhaps it migth be something simple. |
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Thank's McQualude. The sink was not set properly and now it seems that
i have burn the CPU. OO well, my first time will be memorable. I am going to get another cpu and hopefull it will work this time. By the way,Is there another way to check the CPU temperature besides touching it? Thank's one more time. Margots McQualude wrote in message ... (Margots) said: Hi, Last night i put together a PC and when i started for first time CMOS setup come up. I started to go through and check setings. Then in about 5 minits it sudenly the last 5 lines was of letters " eeeeeeeeeee" and it frezed. I wonder if anyone has ideas of what is the problem? I would appreciate any help. Thank's I would first suspect that the CPU heatsink isn't seated or mounted properly. Reseat the heat sink, reseat all the cables for good measure, look around inside the case and make sure there are no screws left inside and then try it again. Check the temperature of the CPU, if it climbs rapidly, turn the machine off. Thank's McQualude. The sink was not set properly and now it seems that i have burn the CPU. OO well, my first time will be memorable. I am going to get another cpu and hopefull it will work this time. By the way,Is there another way to check the CPU temperature besides touching it? Thank's one more time Margots |
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ahh those AMD's.,,,,,,, yes there is a way of testing but in your case
by the time you got into the 'cmos setup' the CPU would have been damaged, in the setup there is a hardware monitor on most newer boards/bios. "Margots" wrote in message m... Thank's McQualude. The sink was not set properly and now it seems that i have burn the CPU. OO well, my first time will be memorable. I am going to get another cpu and hopefull it will work this time. By the way,Is there another way to check the CPU temperature besides touching it? Thank's one more time. Margots McQualude wrote in message ... (Margots) said: Hi, Last night i put together a PC and when i started for first time CMOS setup come up. I started to go through and check setings. Then in about 5 minits it sudenly the last 5 lines was of letters " eeeeeeeeeee" and it frezed. I wonder if anyone has ideas of what is the problem? I would appreciate any help. Thank's I would first suspect that the CPU heatsink isn't seated or mounted properly. Reseat the heat sink, reseat all the cables for good measure, look around inside the case and make sure there are no screws left inside and then try it again. Check the temperature of the CPU, if it climbs rapidly, turn the machine off. Thank's McQualude. The sink was not set properly and now it seems that i have burn the CPU. OO well, my first time will be memorable. I am going to get another cpu and hopefull it will work this time. By the way,Is there another way to check the CPU temperature besides touching it? Thank's one more time Margots |
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"JAD" jde said:
ahh those AMD's.,,,,,,, yes there is a way of testing but in your case by the time you got into the 'cmos setup' the CPU would have been damaged, in the setup there is a hardware monitor on most newer boards/bios. He was in the CMOS and had been for several minutes when it roasted. The heat sink was probably loose and so gave him a couple of minutes before it cooked. -- McQualude |
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