Quick Update
Sunday 23rd January, 2005 01:38 Comments: 0
Movie night went well on Friday. We had loads of pizza, snack food, lots of different things to drink, and I even managed to borrow my parents' big widescreen TV (I still have it now, will return it tomorrow). We watched Heat, I hadn't seen it in ages, it's supposed to be a cool action film (and it is), but Maria made us laugh because she thought Al Pacino and Robert De Niro were brothers.
My new motherboard was finally delivered on Friday, and I finally got around to putting it all together this evening. It didn't post. I tried using a spare PSU, spare processor, spare graphics card, with and without memory, I've tried pretty much everything. There's still a few things I can do to rule stuff out as working, but I suspect my new motherboard is dead and will require an RMA (which will cost money and probably mean I have to take more time off work) I'm very pissed off about this, because I've been without my main PC for two weeks now. Even worse, I still don't know if my 2800+ works (I may still have to buy a new CPU, would probably pick up either a cheap 2400+ Sempron as a temporary fix or maybe look on eBay for a bargain). I really hope it does work, as it's a week 7 CPU so it's multiplier unlocked, so I can probably run it at 10.5 x 200MHz with the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe if I ever get it up and running. Why can't things go smoothly?
I've not had much luck with Socket A boards, my K7S5A died on me after just over a year, then my 8RDA+ died on me after about 7 months, then the replacement 8RDA+ appears to have died after about another 18 months, and this A7N8X-E Deluxe doesn't seem to be working.
My new motherboard was finally delivered on Friday, and I finally got around to putting it all together this evening. It didn't post. I tried using a spare PSU, spare processor, spare graphics card, with and without memory, I've tried pretty much everything. There's still a few things I can do to rule stuff out as working, but I suspect my new motherboard is dead and will require an RMA (which will cost money and probably mean I have to take more time off work) I'm very pissed off about this, because I've been without my main PC for two weeks now. Even worse, I still don't know if my 2800+ works (I may still have to buy a new CPU, would probably pick up either a cheap 2400+ Sempron as a temporary fix or maybe look on eBay for a bargain). I really hope it does work, as it's a week 7 CPU so it's multiplier unlocked, so I can probably run it at 10.5 x 200MHz with the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe if I ever get it up and running. Why can't things go smoothly?
I've not had much luck with Socket A boards, my K7S5A died on me after just over a year, then my 8RDA+ died on me after about 7 months, then the replacement 8RDA+ appears to have died after about another 18 months, and this A7N8X-E Deluxe doesn't seem to be working.