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I have just upgraded my system or at least i tried to but sommit aint right!
I bought the Jetway M2A692-GHG-PB AMD 690G with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200 2.20GH + Corsair 2GB PC2-6400 XMS2 (2x1GB) and a 700W ATX SurgeControl Power Supply. I beleave these things will work together.
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+AM2+%28AMD%29/Jetway+M2A692-GHG-PB+AMD+690G+-+Socket+AM2+?productId=28462
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CPUs+%2F+Processors/AMD/Athlon+64+X2+Socket+AM2/AMD+Athlon+64+X2+Dual+Core+4200%2B+2.20GHz+%28Reta il+AM2%29+?productId=22853
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR2/DDR2+800+%28PC6400%29/Corsair+2GB+PC2-6400+XMS2+%282x1GB%29+?productId=27405
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/500w+%2B/700W+ATX+SurgeControl+Power+SUpply?productId=29000
problem is i cant get the moniter to switch on :( i 1st thought the moniter mite be broke so i used another that i know works but it wont switch on either :( i have no idea wat the problem is can anyone give me a clue??
CMOS reset? are all the power connectors connected?
yer i reset the cmos and all connectors for connected.
well if you tried 2 computers and you have check all cables are in properly then im guessing it only leaves 1 option, stick it in the bin and buy a new one or if it still has warranty send it back from where you got it from.
i got it fae aria (well my sis did) 2 days ago i only just got round to building it today
ok which monitor was it she bought from Aria 2 days ago?
Also check again to make sure its even plugged in and its connected upto the pc.
When you turn the Monitor on do you not get a green or red light on the front of the monitor or anything?
she bought the pc hardware, mobo,cpu,ram and psu. my moniter has a flashing green light when in stand by, and when i turn the pc on the fans start to spin like its working but the moniter dont do anything ive tried 2 moniters now and a HD tv that works like a moniter but no joy. 1 think i have noticed is that when i run it with no ram installed it does not beep, am sure that when i had an older system and i ran it without ram the mobo would beep to let me know theres a problem, should this system beep also if theres no ram?
ok right well at leaste where gettign somwhere now and we know its not the monitor thats not working?
how are you plugging the monitor in? motherboard graphics or you got a graphics card?
i dont have a graphics card yet so im using the onboard one at the mo, and yer the moniter works just fine.
IF no onboard speaker is connected it cannot beep. Also, have you tried any old gfx card just to check in the settings the onboard is default?
i have connected the speaker and i cant try a graphics card as all i have is AGP and this system takes PCI-E. i feel stuck between a rock and a hard place :'(
I assume you have another pc available as you said you tried another working monitor?
You could atleast try the psu in that pc, this will at least prove that works. (please upgrade that £17 psu at the first opportunity, i would only trust it as a paper weight tbh)
As mentioned you should get beeps when no ram is installed, have you definately got a speaker / beeper connected to the mobo or fitted to the mobo?
If you don't have anyway of checking individual parts the only options you have is to either buy cheap replacements ie single stick of memory @ £10 etc or send each part back for aria to test, the very long winded way of doing it.
i have tried another 2 psu's but still have the same problem. i also took the speaker frpm my pc to try and theres still no sound, ive taken it to the local pc repair shop for them to look at and test parts to work out wat part/parts mite not be working.
Did you / could you try the psu from the non working new pc in another pc?
yer i tried the psu form this working pc in the non working one and vice verse
well then its got to be the motherbaord, either the VGA on the motherboard is not working or the settings on the motherboard are not correct.
File an RMA request on the motherboard and ask it to be replaced.
ok ill wait to see wat the pc shop says about it on tuesday and if its the mobo ill get another fae em.
lol why you taking it to a pc repair shop thats going to cost you like £25 which is near enough the price you paid for your motherboard.
The only other option micky is to rma it one bit at a time, which could take months and you still have to pay pnp etc. It could be a dead cpu its not necessarily a given that its a dead mobo.
hmmm true but if it was the CPU then it would bleep to tell you somthing is up.
How could it if the cpu isn't running? Or the cpu is locking the system up.
because its the motherboard that checks everything. IE even if a CPU isnt installed on a motherboard if someone stupid forgot ti put one in it would bleep.
So by your definition if the mobo is working the system should beep regardless of ANY situation?
Thats pretty much what you implied in your previous post.
its the motherboard that checks everything
The point is this chaps mobo might not be dead, it could be the cpu, it could be the mobo, it could be any number of things.
When C2D was in its infancy scores of people where having issues with systems not posting or beeping and in the vast majority of cases it was down to the fact the mobo's bioses weren't detecting the ram settings properly and weren't setting the correct voltage / timings and all it took to fix was inserting some cheapo stick of memory to get it to post and to manually set the correct settings for the other memory. This is now not so much of a problem as the bioses in todays mobo's have been sorted out.
I have had a couple of situations where i have been working on one of my pcs and have done something and the pc didn't post or beep, turns out i must have disturbed something as when i checked all the parts in another pc they were fine and when i reassembled the "faulty" pc it worked, most frustrating. I'm not sure what i disturbed but it wouldn't take much to lock a pc solid, a gfx / pci card / memory stick inserted wonky shorting out an address or data bus a partially inserted sata cable maybe, missing power connector on mobo it could be almost anything.
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