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Old May 22nd 04, 10:14 PM
Margots
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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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Old May 23rd 04, 05:41 PM
JAD
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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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Old May 23rd 04, 11:41 PM
JAD
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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

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(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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Old May 24th 04, 04:35 AM
McQualude
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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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