I just built my first computer, little problem =) UPDATE; WILLING TO PAY MONEY FOR HELP

[Jtardiou]

Originally posted by: mAsk
Do you have the EUropean/US Voltage switch on the power supply set correctly? Just curious? If so did you try swapping power supplies with another system? I would try to rule that out before I went elsewhere.



mAsk

hrmm! good call, im gonna test the new PSU on my current system. and yes the PSU is set correctly. thanks again, ill be back w/ results <3

 

[Jtardiou]

ok yeah, the 400W powersupply on the NEW PC works fine w/ my current machine =(

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Jtardiou
ok yeah, the 400W powersupply on the NEW PC works fine w/ my current machine =(

excellent..now about

only problem i had was the heastink, since its an LGA775 i had to push down the little bolts and one of them went a little hard...

you going to adjust that..?

 

[Jtardiou]

OK GUYS LISTEN UP!

i adjusted the heatsink a little bit and just kind of randomly slaw the mem and moved it a slot down. restarted it, and bam it works -_- i dunno which it was

ok but now i got an error in the bootup it said -

unworkable CPU - load cpu menu or something along those lines, so i reset the CMOS and now im getting hte blue screen of death, am i supposed to do something in the BIOS beforehand?

 

[Jtardiou]

By thte way im checking the temps --

CPU - 63-64
SYS - 33
PWM - 46

aren't those a little high?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Jtardiou
OK GUYS LISTEN UP!

i adjusted the heatsink a little bit and just kind of randomly slaw the mem and moved it a slot down. restarted it, and bam it works -_- i dunno which it was

ok but now i got an error in the bootup it said -

unworkable CPU - load cpu menu or something along those lines, so i reset the CMOS and now im getting hte blue screen of death, am i supposed to do something in the BIOS beforehand?

glad you making prrogress again..yank the pwr cord..pull the CMOS' battery..to clear..wait about 1-2 minutes replace the battery..upon connecting power up..start tapping F8 before flipping/pushing pwr button..
above..nm..

Originally posted by: Jtardiou
By thte way im checking the temps --

CPU - 63-64
SYS - 33
PWM - 46

aren't those a little high?

775 is Tejas..almost all new Pentium run warm..guess you in the bios then..

 

[Jtardiou]

ok this is weird, it smells like something is burning, i turned it off ASAP.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Jtardiou
ok this is weird, it smells like something is burning, i turned it off ASAP.

was the smell coming from

ok yeah, the 400W powersupply on the NEW PC works fine w/ my current machine

or ..?

 

[Jtardiou]

i think its coming from my current computer, im not sure the smell faded, maybe its this 15" monitor i pulled out of the garage that hasnt been turned on in like 4 years.

btw -- how do u take off the CMOS battery -- i pmed u about this -- i dont wnat to break anything

 

[ScrapSilicon]

pm replied to

 

[Jtardiou]

ok thx got it

 

[Jtardiou]

ok now it says

CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded

i can either go to setup or f1 which continues to..

the blue screen

i reboot after the blue screen of death and now it says

CPU is unworkable or has been changed. Please recheck - CPU SOFT MENU

? confused

 

[Jtardiou]

What is the CPU SOFT MENU? I was reading a forum and some guy said he preceeded by going to the CPU SOFT MENU after getting that error.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Jtardiou
ok now it says

CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded

i can either go to setup or f1 which continues to..

the blue screen

i reboot after the blue screen of death and now it says

CPU is unworkable or has been changed. Please recheck - CPU SOFT MENU

? confused

is this BSOD under XP or still in the BIOS..? if XP ..well I'd already said something about that earlier in the thread..

 

[bcoupland]

Hi. Why don't you try putting the hard drive back in your previous computer, reformatting it, and not installing Win XP. I think that you can do that. Then put it in your new system to make a fresh install. Make sure to copy important files on to CD's if you have any. Hope this helps.

 

[bcoupland]

Originally posted by: Jtardiou
CPU is unworkable or has been changed.

My thoughts are that when windows says or has been changed, it is looking for an Athlon XP or whatever AMD proc. you had before. You know when you go into my computer/view system information, it says what proc./ram/hdd you have? maybe windows is looking for an amd proc. so it cannot recognise your new one. Also, are you using a new vidcard? the drivers may be screwing it up. hope this helps.

 

[Jtardiou]

Originally posted by: bcoupland
Hi. Why don't you try putting the hard drive back in your previous computer, reformatting it, and not installing Win XP. I think that you can do that. Then put it in your new system to make a fresh install. Make sure to copy important files on to CD's if you have any. Hope this helps.

Yes it does. Can I get a second opinion on this? I have a lot of stuff on my HDD and I would hate to do this and find it not working.

Thanks in advance crew.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Jtardiou

Originally posted by: bcoupland
Hi. Why don't you try putting the hard drive back in your previous computer, reformatting it, and not installing Win XP. I think that you can do that. Then put it in your new system to make a fresh install. Make sure to copy important files on to CD's if you have any. Hope this helps.

Yes it does. Can I get a second opinion on this? I have a lot of stuff on my HDD and I would hate to do this and find it not working.

Thanks in advance crew.

sorry was busy with knoppixlive on cd ..your best situation is another harddrive..if you are in France I definitely don't know where you can get one..

 

[Jtardiou]

current status:

i told it to boot from cdrom and it just sits there at boot from CD :

this one time it said i press any key to boot it so i did, and it gave me an error that some file was corrupted?

is this just a screwed up CD anyhow that belongs in the trash, its pretty old and it shows from the back.

thanks again crew

 

[Bozo Galora]

you are almost home free

first of all, LGA cpu have no pins, but the socket on the motherboard does, and are apparently prone to bending and breaking on multiple installs, if one is not careful in removing chip straight up or down.

secondly, you must set manually in bios the multiplier and FSB for your chip 14 X 200 (2.8) since its dif from AMD, AFTER setting failsafe defaults while you are at it. (F10 save changes - Yes)

your prob is that your HDD O/S install has chipset/IDE drivers for AMD on it.

you cant run a chevy with a toyota motor

you must set boot order in bios to CDROM first, load XP PRO CD., boot to it, it will see an O/S already installed and ask if you want to repair. The first "R" choice is recovery console, which you dont want, and say "NO" to repair using the console and then to repair instead of install on the next screen, two different types of repair. The "repair over install" will check all your devices and load working generic drivers for your new mobo. You will lose no apps or data - I have done it many times. Do not allow any formatting or FAT32 or NTFS changes.

 

[Jtardiou]

hrm actually my brother gave me his windows ME CD and said he'd never have any problems w/ it. even tho its not fresh, it should still work =[

but the same thing.. sits there at "Boot from CD :"

 

[Bozo Galora]

If you are running Win ME and not XP, I cant help you.

Buy another cheap HDD, set as slave in your old box, suck off what you need from this HDD (master), format this HDD, start from scratch in new box, attatch cheap HDD with data as slave.

 

[Toastedlightly]

so, to get this up to speed. You sucessfully post, with no errors, and the computer then tries to boot? Is it registering your CPU right, the RAM right, everything correctly?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Bozo Galora
you are almost home free


you cant run a chevy with a toyota motor

you sure

 

[Jtardiou]

Ok boys, I think that was the end of it.

the computer just blew up, im running all these things in my room w/ transformers (sp) (those things that change from 110W->220W because im in europe). I don't know what happened, i just heard 2 loud bangs and saw a white flash come from my PSU. Something definitly got cooked. I don't know what I should do, im too scared to even touch it. haha i dont even care anymore, baby jesus obviously never wanted to have someone get that computer since day 1, ive been having problems ever since the parts came in the mail and now it just blew up..

what a great life