First time building Comp problem MS-6390

Hey its my first time building a computer and i need help. I got everythin working , Led , fans , lights , and all but it wont boot anything up just a black screen.
Im useing
MS-6390 KM266 Motherbaord
Radeon 9200 SE
Kbytes DDR PC 2700 333MHZ 256 MB ram stick
450 W Power Supply
Sound Blaster PCI Sound Card
AMD 1700+ Socket A
Maxtors 120 GB HD @ 7200 RPM
everythin is plugged in but just a black screen boots up can anyone help me?

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Originally posted by Richard T
This board does have the 4-pin ATX power socket.
First thing is to remove all unessential add-ons... specifically the sound board and videocard.
Are you getting a beeps at all?
Beeps can be de-coded at the BIOS manufactures website and should lead you to the problem.
Next I'd start working back removing the more essential items... start with CD-ROMs, DVD drives and floppy drives then HDD, then RAM.
All cables need to be double and triple checked for securness. Poorly seated video card is a common culprit.
Final possibility is you may have a faulty or have fried your cpu... I did once.
Hey thats not bad of an idea maybe it will work and our systems are almost the same hehe so i guess ill try it. =P

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I will take the advice on bios and leave well alone at this stage.
Will reformat tonight and install Windows XP and see how it goes.
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Current plan on my new PC is to initially use the 160gb SATA as 20 gb combined partition for OS and apps and the balance for data. Or are there really benefits for keeping the operating system separate from apps? Using Partititon Magic fast to set up although currently it is only seeing 132 GB although the bios is correctly reporting 160GB. Presumably this is something I need to adjust in Windows once fully installed.
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The whole thing is extremely straightforward and towards the end everything became very logical. All the parts I used seem extremely well designed and easy to use. The only part where I had doubts was pushing down the plastic lever on the AMD retail heat sink. I wondered whether I had understood it correctly and whether it was going to snap.

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Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Unbeatable Gaming Case
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Stu,
Looks like you have done a lot of work for this to be your first pass here as a build list; there is a lot more that looks right than wrong.
Regarding how is this system for your workflow? This PC would certainly do what you want it to do.
Regarding cooling, RAM and PSU will be fine.
Regarding is anything missing, yes a Blu-ray burner.
You did not state whether you want to A) build this and leave it alone for years, or B) make some upgrades in the future. If B), I only have a suggestion for your RAM choice. If A), I do have some suggested tweaks to how you spend your budget for this build.
You've heard it here before, but it is so true that Adobe has mastered the ability to tax just about all of your PC components (cpu, RAM, bus, drives, and video card) with Premiere Pro CS5 and above in order to make HD editing fast and fun. This makes balance important and in some ways a system is only as strong as its weakest link.
Your current plans strike me as:
CPU = A+, RAM = A+++ on paper, but possibly a bad idea, Drives = B-, GPU = A-.
My only strong suggestion is to go for 32GB of 1600 RAM. You want to do a moderately strong OC on the CPU and the memory controller of the 3930k is not strong enough to pull this off.
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Edit: Also Here are some photos of whats going on, in case that helps diagnose the problem.
http://imgur.com/a/yO00s#aTsnU

Quote from: HU16E on 03-October-11, 06:09:20
Give this a try. OS HDD in SATA 1 port, 2nd HDD in SATA port 2. ODD & front case can be left as is. What controller mode was the OS installed with in the other system? With a new system, it is almost never a smooth transition with a HDD that has a previous OS on it. All the chipset drivers & other drivers will be wrong for the new system. A new fresh install is always the only sure-fire way to go.
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Quote from: kenkenni on 27-March-09, 01:24:51
Helll and I am happy to be here. I just built my first computer using the X58 Platinum. The problem is that when I turn it on the computer
will run for like a minute, turn off for like 5 seconds, and then turn itself on again. It does this until I just turn it off and unplug it. I have
connected everthing and checked them according to all the manufactures' direction. It runs fine with no error beeps,no smoking, no nothing.
I don't have a clue what to do next except take it down to Micro Center where I bought all the parts and let them figure it out,but there
will be no feeling of accomplishment for me. Here is what I have built.
Antec TwelveHundred case.
Intel i7 Processor.
750 watt power supply.
Baracuda 1.5 TB Sata hardrive.
Sony Blu Ray/DVD/CD Rom.
Diamond Radeon 4870 1 Gigabyte Graphics Card.
3 0CZG Triple Channel 2GB Memory cards 1600
I have double and triple checked every plug and connection. The Processor and fan is secured and powered. Nothing gets hot or overheated.
I plug my monitor into the graphic card hoping to see the BIOS screen but no Bios images on screen. I am stumped now and can't think of
anything else I can do. Don't have an OS on the new hardrive yet,but that was going to be after I viewed and setup whatever in the Bios.
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Boot Sequence – CD-ROM, USB-FDD, Hard Disk, Disabled
JMB361 MODE – Disabled
SATA Mode – AHCI
CPU – 266MHz v.1.25
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Spread spectrum – Disabled
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SATA SLOT 4 – NONE
SATA SLOT 3 – Hard Drive
SATA SLOT 2 – NONE
SATA SLOT 1 – Hard Drive
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Jack the Newbie
no i did not do it " not sure how to slipstream never did it " . where can i get them and can i still load windows install them. however i did look in to the device manager and see the controller in there for AHCI " took about 5 minutes to reach
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1000w Power Supply - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171056
500Gig Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769
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500Gig Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769
1Terabyte Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339
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OS/PROGRAMS DRIVE: G.SKILL Phoenix Series FM-25S2S-60GBP1 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
$130.00
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(Lacking Windows 7 Pro, Monitor(s), but I will deal with those later)
Thanks!

Gigabyte motherboard, i7-950 CPU, overclock -> absolutely!
Bumping it up to 3.6 or 3.7GHz should not be too dificult and the gains for Premiere Pro CS5 are definitely there; check out the PPBM5 benchmark scores (PPBM5.com) and look at similar CPUs running at different clock speeds. Also, with Intel's current CPUs the chip slows way down until the work gets tough and then the clock speed raises to get the work done more quickly.
Jim

First Time JDB user - Problems already

I get the error when I try to run my app... (I am in the folder D:/Projects/EdsApp when I start JDB)
run D:/Projects/EdsApp/EdsApp
Exception occurred: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException (uncaught)"thread=main", java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(), line=198 bci=72
Any ideas? When I exit JDB, I get this...
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: D:/Projects/EdsApp/EdsApp
Exception in thread "main"
I've even added the folder D:/Projects/EdsApp/ to the CLASSPATH.
Thanks in advance,
--Ed

It's not finding the class you're giving it.
under the linux version, you give it the classpath then then class name
like:
jdb /myclasspath/ myclass.class
I haven't used it under windows, but it's probably the same.

First build, having problems

Second day scanning this board a bit, trying to get this system to work. This is my first time building my own computer... and so far it's been giving me insane ammounts of trouble.
What I can tell you:
MSI Neo 2 939 socket motherboard
AMD 64 3000+
Two 512 RAM, 400 mhz
200 gig maxtor hard drive
Liteon DVD writer
Couple other details... don't really know what you need to know.
I've replaced the power source 2 times, using 3 different power sources. I read in many places that the problem was there was simply not enough power. I'm now using a power source that is 34 amps in the 12v line, god i hope it doesn't need to be higher.
Yes, I have both of the power lines connected into the motherboard.
What happens upon each attempt to turn it on is, the power flashes on for just a second, LED light's lighting up and fans spinning for probably no more than a second. Then the power simply dies, everything stops and there is no signal. I have tried replacing a number of wires, though i honestly can't quite tell which part of a lot of these wires is the actual signal wire and the grounding wire.
Any clues, any tips would be wonderful, cause I have no idea where to go from here.

Dillius,
is your hard drive the maxtor 10 with 16mb cache, if so there have been some issues with these drives see Maxtor 16Mb Cache HDDs & Neo2 Problems
Quote
Slipstream to make a new Windows 2000 install disc
- good idea
Suggestions:-
1) Plug maxtor into Sata 4 socket
2) unplug the spare optical drive until install is finished.
3) Install floppy & upgrade bios to v1.4 - this may help your maxtor see K8N Neo2 Platinum v1.4 & follow this guide carefully Flashing the BIOS for Users using NON FAT file system
4) continue running with 1 memory module in green slot 1, memory seems to be an issue , (even running in the right slots 1 Green 2 Purple ). Once install is complete need to run memtest & get manufacturers timings.
good luck

Problem first time round with DAQmxWriteDigitalLines

Hello,
Please can any one help with the code below?
(start task)
(create channel)
DAQmxWriteDigitalLines(m_taskHandle, 1, 1, -1#, DAQmx_Val_GroupByChannel, m_writeArray(0), m_sampsPerChanWritten, 0)
(stop task)
m_writeArray is 2 bytes long.
When I first run the task I get a buffer overflow error. When I run it a second time it works fine? The DAQmxGetWriteDigitalLinesBytesPerChan always gives 2 bytes per channel (strange? or expected?) - I tired increasing the m_writeArray size but it size exhibits the same behaviour. Anyone know?
Cheers,
Daniel

Thanks Jeff,
I tried your code in C and it worked as you said. First time around, no problems. I'm calling these functions with VBA (from within Excel,) and for some reason first time round I still get an error. It's curious, and I don't understand it. The problem is runtime error 6, "overflow." Interestingly enough if I step through the code, and pause for a second or so between making the channel and calling the write lines function I don't have a problem. I really dont understand since the C program works well. I've included the class I used to control the lines below, any ideas?
Best Regards,
Daniel
Option Explicit
Private m_sampsPerChanWritten As Long
Private m_TaskHandle As Long
Private m_writeArray(0 To 3) As Byte
Private m_bytesPerWriteDigitalLines As Long
Private Const c_digitalLineHIGH As Long = 1
Private Const c_digitalLineLOW As Long = 0
Private Const c_terminalAddress As String = "Dev1/port0/line0:1"
Private Sub Class_Initialize()
' Create the DAQmx task.
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxCreateTask("", m_TaskHandle)
' Add a digital output channel to the task.
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxCreateDOChan(m_TaskHandle, c_terminalAddress, "", DAQmx_Val_ChanForAllLines)
'Check the number of bytes per channel
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxGetWriteDigitalLinesBytesPerChan(m_TaskHandle, m_bytesPerWriteDigitalLines)
If m_bytesPerWriteDigitalLines <> 2 Then
MsgBox ("Error. Expecting 2 bytes per channel.")
End If
'Verify the task
'DAQmxErrChk DAQmxTaskControl(m_taskHandle, DAQmx_Val_Task_Verify)
'Reserve and Commit the resources for the task
'DAQmxErrChk DAQmxTaskControl(m_taskHandle, DAQmx_Val_Task_Commit)
'Start the task
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxStartTask(m_TaskHandle)
End Sub
Private Sub Class_Terminate()
'stop the task
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxStopTask(m_TaskHandle)
' terminate the task
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxClearTask(m_TaskHandle)
End Sub
Public Sub Inflate()
m_writeArray(0) = c_digitalLineLOW
m_writeArray(1) = c_digitalLineHIGH
'write the array to the digital lines
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxWriteDigitalLines(m_TaskHandle, 1, 1, -1#, DAQmx_Val_GroupByChannel, m_writeArray(0), m_sampsPerChanWritten, 0)
End Sub
Public Sub Deflate()
m_writeArray(0) = c_digitalLineHIGH
m_writeArray(1) = c_digitalLineLOW
'write the array to the digital lines
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxWriteDigitalLines(m_TaskHandle, 1, 1, -1#, DAQmx_Val_GroupByChannel, m_writeArray(0), m_sampsPerChanWritten, 0)
End Sub
Public Sub StopAir()
m_writeArray(0) = c_digitalLineLOW
m_writeArray(1) = c_digitalLineLOW
'write the array to the digital lines
DAQmxErrChk DAQmxWriteDigitalLines(m_TaskHandle, 1, 1, -1#, DAQmx_Val_GroupByChannel, m_writeArray(0), m_sampsPerChanWritten, 0)
End Sub

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