Andrew
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wow 
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Chump
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Originally posted by willay
Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Midi Tower - With 450W SmartPower2.0 PSU
good choice of case. i use these to build machines at work and they're very good. nice and quiet too 
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Russ
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james, why not get opteron rather than A64? 146 = 1mb L2 compared to 512 and is just as fast and usualy fster..
[Edited on 31-01-2006 by Russ]
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James
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I changed my spec since then Russ.
I went for the 3700+ San Diego which has a 1mb L2 Cache.
New spec is as follows:
- Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
- GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5
- AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939)
- Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache
- LG GSA-4167BRL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
- Leadtek GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express)
- Coolermaster Wavemaster Case
- OCZ ModStream 450w ATX2.2 Power Supply
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James
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Well mines built Willay, hows yours going?
I'm gunna sanity check it tomorrow before I power it up because im half asleep at the mo
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willay
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Mines built but needs an operating system.. 
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James
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Ditto, thank god for MSDN subscriptions 
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willay
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Well got an operating system on there (well repaired my existing installation) and at about 9pm there was a cracky type pop! sound from the motherboard. Think I'm going to be RMAing some stuff. 
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James
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Mines all good, I thoroughly recommend XP Media Center edition
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willay
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RMA called up, spoke to some people in my office and think its the CPU gone as the motherboard isnt POSTing (only spins fans )
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willay
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CPU and motherboard going back today, also found out one of my hard disks fried so I think its a PSU issue.
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dave17
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oooooooops
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Cybermonkey
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Willay i bet you its HDD failure, try a new one, i bet you your machine will fire up first time. like i said, this happened to a works machine last week. HDD fried and wouldnt even let mobo boot to bios
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Reedy
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
RMA called up, spoke to some people in my office and think its the CPU gone as the motherboard isnt POSTing (only spins fans )
When a machine doesnt POST( Power on Self Test ), usually means a couple of things:
1: CPU faulty
2: Ram faulty
3: PSU dead
4: Mobo faulty
Ive never seen a hard drive stop a machine from POST'ing.
Also If you can, i would ask for a different processor.
RUSS knows what hes talking about, Opteron 146, best freaking processor out mate. I got a standard one with a standard cooler running at 2.8ghz and still running at around 33 degrees.
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willay
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Dont think I said the hard drive stopped it mate, its obviously not posting because the memory/cpu/mobo/gpu has been fired.
The fact that the hard disk attached at the time is fried kinda makes me think everything else went up in flames too.
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willay
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also CPU and motherboard have been sent back today to get back to ebuyer on monday. Going to take my 7800GT to somewhere local to see if they can test that for faults.
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Reedy
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Yeah, The Pc would POST if the graphics card was dead.
Just because the screen doesnt come on doesnt mean the system isnt posting.
Good luck with Ebuyer, alot of my customers have had lots of problems with them taking so long to sort stuff out
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willay
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OK, ebuyer received my mobo and cpu which i reported as DOA  and they have confirmed it doesnt work and will send me a replacement 
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gianluigi
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This thread might aswell be in a foreign language. Im trying to understand whats going on, but i give up all i can make of it is that Willay has built a computer and its gone wrong   
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--Dave--
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I built a new system recently as well, well pleased with it...
Opteron 146 @ 2.5ghz
Asus A8N SLI Premium NF4
2x512mb Corsair XMS 4400
POV 7800GT @ 465/1130
Plays Battlefield 2 like a dream
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willay
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Well done for not blowing it up Dave
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willay
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UPDATE:
Spoke to the local computer shop who tried the graphics card, they confirmed it worked.
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
Willay i bet you its HDD failure, try a new one, i bet you your machine will fire up first time. like i said, this happened to a works machine last week. HDD fried and wouldnt even let mobo boot to bios
Thats odd.
The machine would normally Still post under normal circumstances
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John
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If you think its the harddrive just unplug it.
Will still post.
My graphics card chucked it last week and comp wouldn't post.
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
Willay i bet you its HDD failure, try a new one, i bet you your machine will fire up first time. like i said, this happened to a works machine last week. HDD fried and wouldnt even let mobo boot to bios
Thats odd.
The machine would normally Still post under normal circumstances
yeah, removal of the HDD allows the machine to post, so it is possible that HDD failure can cause it. very odd though
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