bit scared....

Hi all,

I have just brought pretty much a new system which includes:

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe.
Antec Truepower 480w PSU
1gb Coursair Value Select Ram
9600XT Radeon

I wired it all up last night, went to switch it on and the PSU blew
with a cloud of smoke, fearing the worst i used an old Qtec Psu i had
laying around to test everything worked....

However, when i switch my machine on, it freezes at the Bios boot
screen, around the time of the RAM check and recognisind the hard
drives. It varies from time to time.

This leads me to think that all is not lost, as the motherboard powers
on and starts it process, the ram seems ok as i tried with some other
Ram with still the same results.

Does anyone know of a problem that could cause this, or do you think
that some is fried in my system?

Thanks

Rex (a concerned user... :-s )

Have you tried different RAM Chips , may be possible that one of them was
affected when the PSU blew

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"Rex Mundi" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have just brought pretty much a new system which includes:

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe.
Antec Truepower 480w PSU
1gb Coursair Value Select Ram
9600XT Radeon

I wired it all up last night, went to switch it on and the PSU blew
with a cloud of smoke, fearing the worst i used an old Qtec Psu i had
laying around to test everything worked....

However, when i switch my machine on, it freezes at the Bios boot
screen, around the time of the RAM check and recognisind the hard
drives. It varies from time to time.

This leads me to think that all is not lost, as the motherboard powers
on and starts it process, the ram seems ok as i tried with some other
Ram with still the same results.

Does anyone know of a problem that could cause this, or do you think
that some is fried in my system?

Thanks

Rex (a concerned user... :-s )

Have you tried different RAM Chips , may be possible that one of them was
affected when the PSU blew

That's what he said. Not that I can come up with anything more
constructive, but he did say that he'd tried that...

CK

On 2 Mar 2005 07:16:32 -0500,
lid (Rex Mundi)
wrote:

Hi all,

I have just brought pretty much a new system which includes:

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe.
Antec Truepower 480w PSU
1gb Coursair Value Select Ram
9600XT Radeon

I wired it all up last night, went to switch it on and the PSU blew
with a cloud of smoke, fearing the worst i used an old Qtec Psu i had
laying around to test everything worked....

So the PSU was brand new, that is, had never been turned on
by you before? I'm wondering if it was just a
manufacturer's defect or you had it set to wrong voltage?

Regardless, an "old Qtec" may not be so useful, as it might
easily be insufficient capacity for the system. In fact I
would assume it was insufficient and recommend replacing it
even if it had worked.


However, when i switch my machine on, it freezes at the Bios boot
screen, around the time of the RAM check and recognisind the hard
drives. It varies from time to time.

Clear CMOS. Try booting without changing any bios settings.
Strip system down to minimal components. Remove all but 1
memory module, unplug drives, etc, and see if it'll boot to
a DOS floppy.


This leads me to think that all is not lost, as the motherboard powers
on and starts it process, the ram seems ok as i tried with some other
Ram with still the same results.

If it'll boot to DOS, then make a memtest86 boot floppy on
another system and run that to test memory.



Does anyone know of a problem that could cause this, or do you think
that some is fried in my system?

Only video card, 1 memory module, CPU and heatsink/fan is
needed to post the system. Attach a keyboard to get into
bios and check the health monitor screen. Note temperature,
voltage. Take this a step at a time starting out with a
simplest bare configuration and adding back parts one at a
time.