Help Please

OK, I'm trying to run an ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE motherboard with a AMD Athlon XP 3200+...they don't like each other very mich... AMD says that ut wull work with the A7N8X DELUXE...although they don't make that....ASUS says that the board will handle a 3200+.

After I set everything up, I hit the power button and everything starts up except there's no POST and nothing on screen....

Help me if you can please

I had post issues like this and it was 2 years before I figured out I made some little g00fs when attaching the little slide-on connectors for the front panel: PWR/HDLED/RST/SPKR/ ....etc. Put just one jumper on the wrong pin and the computer may still work, but you're gonna get neverending.....here it comes.....


FUNKINESS

uhh I am running the exact same combo...there is nothing wrong with chip board relations. Infact its one of the best especially for overclocking. First of all do you have your vid card seated properly, if it turns on and nothing is on the screen this is most likely what I would blame. If not look at the panel connectors, another thing it could be is a bad agp bus, which i highly doubt.

I know a solution .... pack all that stuff back into its box's ... send it all back ... and buy yourself a MAC ......

Min

^^^No, just no, Apple is too expensive, over at xfn we did a price comparison of the new imac g5 comapred to a custom built PC, custom built way cheaper and with how much they cost you can build a much faster computer. Yes building computer can be quiete stressful, I would know, bought a nice premod case for $75 used old used parts, (bought a new cpu at least and psu) but never got that damn thing stable so I reverted to 0 and started all over, and soon enough I will have $1000 saved up for new rig. But possible problems are, fried cpu, fried mb, or shorting out in the back of the mb with the tray, check make sure non of the sides are touching and that they are supported with plastic stand offs. Or you can pull the computer out of the case and see if it works, just have to use the power button.

Use Mandrake 10 or suSE instead of windows, a lot less stressful, but make sure to save a little spot on your hdd for windows, so you can run winbolo ;)

H SJ, can I just buy those off you? $300...hmm? hmm?

Also Suicide Jockey, is there an actual beep from the internal speaker or is there that voice thing that tells you stuff? I'm talking about the first time you fired it up...

Anything special I should know?

and Wanna sell me that board and proc? $300...

there is a beep, and a seksi voice telling you wtf is up....but she can be turned off. and hmm that price is rather tempting...

I know...you'd earn money....now just send it to me and I'll send you the money...and Min, I would get and apple if I was rich...

when me and my buds were younger, we had a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. take a mac, one of those little ones with the built in screen, and partition the HD so we can keep OSX or w/e and windows... now that i think about it, it would be good, a computer that is compact, small, and a great LAN party maching (maybe a few tweaks needed for performance) does ANYONE know if this would work?

Jason#8

Jason#8 wrote:

when me and my buds were younger, we had a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. take a mac, one of those little ones with the built in screen, and partition the HD so we can keep OSX or w/e and windows... now that i think about it, it would be good, a computer that is compact, small, and a great LAN party maching (maybe a few tweaks needed for performance) does ANYONE know if this would work?

Jason#8

Yes it will work and i'm planning to do it, but theres more work then you could imagine, ok take the mac way, you would have to find a small enough mac motherboard to fit (the imac cube) and put that in there, then you have to carefully remove the crt monitor, (can kill you if you don't know what you are doing) then buy a color 9" crt ($350) or get a monochrome one(crap) or take a 9" or 10" lcd screen ($300-350). Lets see this mod would cost over $700, now if you want the windows way (mac hardware doesn't work with windows and vice versa) Get a mini-itx board cost around $100 the rest of the hardware, ends up $350 for a semi good rig, the monitor again $350 so thats over $700. So its not worth it, and if you want to use a color classic (values $100-250) and use its color screen your not going to get much out of it, hence it won't be good for gaming. So its won't be good gaming machine (maybe semi-good if you dump $1000 into it). So no go for gaming, unless of course its for winbolo, so if you take the mono crt route it will still cost around $300+price of a old mac. Heres a link to teh idea,
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/mac-itx/
Now I'm going to be doing this mod for Winbolo, and it will cost me around $400-500, I have a Mac SE and Color Classic already, but I'm not stripping them, they are special to me, since I collect them, tthats another reason why I will do this mod, for the love of the mac. So if you know what your doing when handling a crt monitor and have alot of cash to blow then go for it.

oh veng there is no way in fuck I am sending that before i see money so go buy your own. Oh and Jason regarding yours.....you can repartition it but windows won't run on the mac hardware.....some linux flavors will.

Min wrote:

... and buy yourself a MAC ......

Yeah, MAC addresses are pretty cheap now a days.

~suicide~ wrote:

^^^No, just no, Apple is too expensive, over at xfn we did a price comparison of the new imac g5 comapred to a custom built PC, custom built way cheaper and with how much they cost you can build a much faster computer.

How can you make an accurate comparison when you don't compare two like things? A G5 iMac isn't a gaming machine, for one. Did you take into account the weight of the iMac and it's design? It's superior operating system, etc? I consider $1199, which is the student price, a decent value for the 17 inch model.

Well ok then, the Imac G5 is great for the computer impared, but if want performance and don't care about size then a person would go for a much better system for the same price. Yes i agree Mac osX is superior then Windows, but I think linux flavors are better, mainly because of hardware compability.

If you want performance and don't care about the size then you would be comparing your PC to the 2.5ghz G5 Powermac, not the iMac. That is my point.

Yes that is a really powerful machine, but I think you can still build a amd64 rig better then that for cheaper, but don't hold me to that, since I haven't checked on prices. Yeah now i see what your getting at. Imac G5 owns in its own category, but doubtful of g5 powermac owning in its category.

I'm not a mac fan or anything .... but nemo isn't exactly the first person I could chose to argue about mac's with, considering I'm sure he knows more about them then alot of us here.

Well i don't know a whole lot about new mcs but more of classic macs I do, well whats to know about them?

I'm not saying you should buy a Mac, and yes, the Powermac is expensive. I was just trying to make you realize that your comparison was garbage. And btw you know you can run your linux on any Mac right?

Yeah I knew that you can run linux on a mac, yes I realize that my comparison was unfair between the imac and a custom built rig.