915G combo strangness

I have put together a 915G combo at work for a customer funny thing is when i move all his stuff back over to his store and plug it it won't work, i bring it back to the shop it boots 1st try.
Then i tried plugging it in all over the store no go , i bring it back to store change power supply bring it back it still won't post?.
Bring it back to my shop it boots 1st try then i shut it down and booted it cold over a dozen times, brought in an electician he was just puzzled anyone have any ideas to why it wont work at his place but works perfect at my shop?.

His store may have "Dirty Power" whereby inadequate power running the store.

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[915 Series] 915G-Combo with OCZ-DDR2-533/4200 no post - help!

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Thanks... I tried that.... still no go...
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They were very apologetic about it, and from what I can tell I don't think this happens a lot with OCZ ram...
So that hopefully will be the solution to my problem.. I'm processing an RMA with them right now.. will let you know how it goes.. it's a 'relief' to find out that it most likely isn't my MSI-915G board's fault after all...
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915G combo blank screen & LED indicator show 3 red & 1 green..

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Quote from: devilangel on 20-November-06, 17:22:17
thank you, BOSSKILLER, tonite , i will try
and 1 more question , why my computer always got this problem ,
it happened twice a years,
WHY ah, izzit this board not good enough.
Anyways , thousand thank you again for you help BossKiller.
you are welcome mate.
well suggest you to read Moan Guide and to explain better what problem you got in a new thread. keep us updated.

915G Combo And Double-Wide Card...

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I have a 915G Combo motherboard with an X800XT video card, but want to upgrade to the X1900XTX. However, the X1900XTX is classed as a 'double-wide' card. Is the 915G able to acccomodate it?
Regards,
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Naw, a Pentium-D does not necessarily mean better 3D performance.
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Quote from: Assaf on 02-April-05, 00:01:42
It is.
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Can someone help? I've just bought a new mobo and can't get the system to boot up. The BIOS shows that I've got my harddisks installed on to the third Master/Slave instead of on the Primary IDE - I've confirm that I've connected to IDE1. Anyone has any ideas what is wrong?
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I cant see that how can i fix graphic memory in bios.
How can I configure or arrange graphic memory? For example; how can i
fixed 64 MB? Which program have to be used?
Aperture size option in the bios arranges how much graphic memory reserved from the all system memory. I dont ask that. My problem is how can i fix some memory part in the aperture size memory.
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to Wonkanoby
All of the bottom from the 30262304.pdf in http://www.intel.com
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