Cant power up (start up) my computer...
Hey I have a problem. I cant for some reason power up my computer. I've been building one. My thought is that the motherboard may be messed up, but the thing is there are lights coming from the LAN jacks in the back when I get ready to power up my system? If not than I don't know. Nothing is wrong with the PSU. Can some one help me. Oh a question that I have is, how can you tell if your motherboard is messed up?
THANK YOU
Well you have to dismount everything from the case and outside gather a pile of newspaper put the motherboard on top and start mounting from scratch outside the case, first reseat the processor, have thermal paste at hand, clean both the processor and the HSF of the remain of old paste, be carefull with processor pins, the in slot 1 put one stick of memory, insert gfx then connect the PSU both 24 & 4 pin plugs connect the power cable to the PSU turn it on and with a screwdriver short the 2 pins of the power button, see if it starts....
Quote from: Amatureboi on 22-July-05, 06:52:35
I haven't tried that RAM thing yet. But can you connect SATA 150 drives to the motherboard's SATA II?
Yes you can, is backward compatible.
Be well....
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