marcel29 0 Posted June 9, 2003 Hello you all. Can someone help me? I recently bought a new mainboard (k7vta3 version 5.0), a cpu (athlon XP +2400) and 512 ddr ram (pc2100/266mh). Iput this in my Aopen bigtower with my pine geforce2 mx400 64mb sdram excalibur. Guess what?.. it doesn`t work! The pc starts up.. but the display turns in its powersave mode. 2 secs after that the pc halts. I was thinking about the memory, but am sure now that that isn`t the case. Do you have any other suggestions what could be wrong.. and how to fix it? greetz, Marcel Share this post Link to post
AndyFair 0 Posted June 9, 2003 Could be badly seated graphics card, memory, faulty processor or dead motherboard. Does the motherboard give any POST error beeps? Do the fans and hard drives spin up when you turn the power on? Can you hear it start to boot Windows (single POST beep, hard drives chugging etc.)? Try reseating everything and try again. Are you able to check with your old CPU? Just a couple of thoughts Rgds AndyF Share this post Link to post
mezron 0 Posted June 9, 2003 Try any video card other than a GeForce. I've seen problems with that chipset with GeForce 2,3,4,and MX. Mostly what I've seen is the computer will run fine for anywhere from 3-30 minutes then the screen just goes black and the monitor shuts off after a few seconds. Hard restart is all that will reset it after that. Jim Share this post Link to post
marcel29 0 Posted June 10, 2003 Ive checked the videocard, but I`m sure its ok. It can be put in in 1 way. Its agp. ehm.. the proc. is ok too. I`ve checked that. So I only am left with a possible bad mainboard or a bad ddr memory. The ddr is hard to check.. its my 1st pc with ddr. ehm.. about the beeps and so. No beeps, nothing. When I start the pc, it sounds like he stops during the count of the memory, in the beginning. But still.. that shou`ldn`t be a problem with the display.When the memory is bad there would be a system stop.. but the display should work. Its spooky... Share this post Link to post
