S
Smith
I posted a bit ago, this thing has pissed me off so much I took a two month
break from messing with it.
AMD K-7 950
Mobo: MSI (
http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/MSI/2512592/2512592nv.shtml )
New 300W Power Supply
Got this as a barebones with everything but the drives. The PSU was bad
(burning smells) so I put a new 300W in it. So put it all together and it
worked for a bit then stopped. On the boot up right before it would no
longer boot it got to the Windows 98 screen then rebooted it self, and then
did that a second time before finally loading Windows. Now it's won't boot
at all.
The thing powers up, I took off the side panel to listen and look better.
CPU fan spins, PSU fan goes, power light in the front panel is green, hard
drive makes it's noise and then it just sits there sounding like it's on and
working fine. Does nothing, no POST beep. So I try to force a beep. I
take out all of the RAM. Start it up, still the same stuff starts but just
sits there and I get NO beeps indicating the missing RAM. To shut it off I
hold down the power button and then, you know it goes off (everything inside
stops it's spinning, no noise) BUT the green light on the power button is
still on. The damn thing is off, but the power light on the front panel is
still on green as ever. To get the button light to go out I have to unplug
it, then about 4 seconds later it goes out. So I have no beeps at all no
matter what I do to try and make it beep and a damn haunted power button.
If this was a motherboard issue why does everything start up? I've never
had a dead board before, but I would think if it was dead it wouldn't even
power up like that...I was looking at the front panel connector
(http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/MSI/2510174/251017422.shtml). Could
the wires going from that to the power button be bad? As I said the first
power supply went bad, made burning smells. I'm thinking maybe those wires
got fried too? Which might explain the green light not going off when it
should? I pulled it apart and looked at the wires connected to the power
button, wanted to see if one was loose or something, had no clue what I was
looking at but it all looked normal and secure, just some wirtes hooked to
the pins. Can get a picture if anyone wants one, maybe the wires are hooked
to the wrong pins?
I really need some help on this, it's driving me insane...
Smith
break from messing with it.
AMD K-7 950
Mobo: MSI (
http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/MSI/2512592/2512592nv.shtml )
New 300W Power Supply
Got this as a barebones with everything but the drives. The PSU was bad
(burning smells) so I put a new 300W in it. So put it all together and it
worked for a bit then stopped. On the boot up right before it would no
longer boot it got to the Windows 98 screen then rebooted it self, and then
did that a second time before finally loading Windows. Now it's won't boot
at all.
The thing powers up, I took off the side panel to listen and look better.
CPU fan spins, PSU fan goes, power light in the front panel is green, hard
drive makes it's noise and then it just sits there sounding like it's on and
working fine. Does nothing, no POST beep. So I try to force a beep. I
take out all of the RAM. Start it up, still the same stuff starts but just
sits there and I get NO beeps indicating the missing RAM. To shut it off I
hold down the power button and then, you know it goes off (everything inside
stops it's spinning, no noise) BUT the green light on the power button is
still on. The damn thing is off, but the power light on the front panel is
still on green as ever. To get the button light to go out I have to unplug
it, then about 4 seconds later it goes out. So I have no beeps at all no
matter what I do to try and make it beep and a damn haunted power button.
If this was a motherboard issue why does everything start up? I've never
had a dead board before, but I would think if it was dead it wouldn't even
power up like that...I was looking at the front panel connector
(http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/MSI/2510174/251017422.shtml). Could
the wires going from that to the power button be bad? As I said the first
power supply went bad, made burning smells. I'm thinking maybe those wires
got fried too? Which might explain the green light not going off when it
should? I pulled it apart and looked at the wires connected to the power
button, wanted to see if one was loose or something, had no clue what I was
looking at but it all looked normal and secure, just some wirtes hooked to
the pins. Can get a picture if anyone wants one, maybe the wires are hooked
to the wrong pins?
I really need some help on this, it's driving me insane...
Smith
