Here’s what happened, i emptied my pc case of the old parts and then screwed in the new motherboard, placed the cpu in its socket, applied thermal paste and heatsink etc etc! Now in the past I’ve had many computer problems so i figure the best way to do this is to start off with the bare minimum parts needed, so in goes the AGP card but as I’m doing so i notice the slot isn’t the normal AGP slot, its an AGP Pro slot which is about 2cms longer. I soon realised my card would fit in anyway and did a quick bit of research to make sure the voltages etc were all gona be ok. Next i put in my old GB of RAM which is non ECC registered hence my new 2gb of ECC hasn’t arrived yet!
So after all of that i plugged it in and ill all started up (fans running but the CPU fan that came with the cpu is a [bleep] wind blower and its louder than anything vie heard so at the current time i cant tell if the system is POSTing or not! The problem lies with getting no visual output onto the monitor and not being able to hear the POST beeps if they are there. I’ve tried an old PCI GeForce 4 and a different monitor but the same problem. I’ve tried clearing the CMOS also and tried a more powerful PSU even though mine is 400w and is surely powerful enough?
Until my new ECC reg DRR arrives i have no way of telling if it could be this at fault but i don’t see how it can if the system is turning on.... doesn’t a system need some RAM to power up?
Hoping that someone can come up with something to help me out! Spent a lot of money as I’m sure you already know the FX51 isn’t the cheapest CPU out there and all because I want to play FEAR on full graphics
next comes the new GPU when i next get paid. Cheers for any help that you guys can offer and apologies for the essay! (my system specs are listed in my member profile)
Jim
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