back to my p4 troubles....

got a known working chip and fitted it to the pc .. still makes that sodding 2 tone beeping noise
fugggggin thing .. so .. is it the motherboard ??? i have no idea and it now looks like i will have to get a new board to find out ...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

Well, I personally would return the board and the chip for direct replacements.

When I got my AMD Xp3200 chip, it failed, and took the board with it (unknown to me), so I bought another chip, and put it on the board (didn't work), so I sent the new chip back and the board.

New board arrived, but original chip on, and surprise surprise, no joy.

Sent both back, and received 2 new one's and all ok.

Whole process left my machien out of action for about 6 weeks

 

board is 2 years 9 months old ... think they might say piss off


oh well have to get another board then ...
fleaybay here we come


just building my new p4 3ghz but would like the old machine running ..

 

I FUCKING HATE COMPUTERS



IT WONT BASTARD BOOT UP

GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR




cant even get the bios to come up ..

asus p5p800 board ..

Pentium 4 3.0GHz Socket 775 800FSB (531)

floopppppy drive

2 x 512MB 400MHz 184Pin 512MB PC3200 DDR RAM DIMM 2.5V 3.2Gb/Sec

Novatech GeForce FX5200 128MB 8XAGP Graphics Card TV Out (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?NOV-FX2128)

sata drive

60 gig ibm deskstar ide

even with no hard drives connected it should go into bios .. if i could get it to read the bios i could upgrade the bios via floppy ...

fucking pissed off now .. never had this much hassle building a bloody pc ..

all i can guess is .. that i got the board from fleabay it might be shafted .. but i can not prove it ..

 

anyone recomend a board please ???...

im pissed of big time about this ..

needs to be similar to the p5p800 seperate video 4 ddr slots etc

 

Stop buying motherboards off e-bay

Get them from www.ebuyer.com or www.aria.co.uk or www.redstore.com or www.scan.co.uk or www.dabs.com or any other good computer componant vendor .

 

i know dan

any choice makes you can recomend ???

many thanks

 

I'd go with either gigabyte or an Asus one m8 I like A-bit as well, but they are mainly for the AMD chips.

In your case, get an ASUS board and you'll probably need a new chip. If you get them from a good vendor, any problems you have, you can get sorted out.

I think most boards have 3 years warranty with them. Maybe contact the seller off e-bay and see what he can do ? If he's a good seller, he'll be able to help you. No doubt, he buy's bit's in bulk, and flogs them on e-bay.

 

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What board was it m8 ? I've had a couple with no problems Wouldn't touch MSI tho

 

do like asus.. look good ....but there seeems to be loads of hassles with bios .. and not enought power to the memory ..
there is a few mods you can do to make it more reliable .. but why didn't they make them with these mods ???

deffo want intel chipset ..
4 gig ability
no onboard graphics

 

You should be able to find a board that suits thos spec's easy m8, main thing is to make it compatible with your cpu (which in turn, could also be fucked)

 

And please don't tell me you bought the cpu off e-bay as well.

 

ermmmmmmmmmmmm

sealed box tho and you can tell with p4's as they have pads not pins ... the socket marks the chip

 

Yes, but can you return it to the seller if it fooks up ??


Which it has



Time to leave the darkside, and join the AMD revolution my friend

 

Might make me sound like a n00b, but why are AMD's considered better than Intel chips? An Intel P4 3.2 is 3.2gHz, yet the AMD 3200 is only 2gHz?

 

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...nxp-26-mx.html

 

had only one amd system dan ... it was totally shiteeeee

kept crashing every week .. totally fuggin useless tried it on win 98 and xp pro

just could not get it stable in any way .. so gave up ...

 

With all due respect m8, based on what you've posted over the past month or so, I ain't fooking surprised

 

 

cheers dan ...
have built many systems that have been faultless...
the amd was never stable...
the p4 2.4 that died was the first that i have ever had a problem with after nearly 3 years of heavy use im not complaing...just couldn't decide if it was the chip or board ...

 

 

love you long time

 

From a Duron 850MHz, to a Duron 1100MHz, to an Athlon XP2600+, I've never had problems with any AMD's...

 

intel all the way

amd much cheaper, but what u get u pay for

 

sucess .. well of sorts ....

got one of the sods working ...

ASUS P4P800S-E turned up today .. P4 2.6 now running
just need to burn the thing in ....



just need to get the 775 one runing now

 

Another e-bay purchase ?

 

ermmmmmm duno what you mean ...

but it bloody works ...

 

PMSL

Let's hope it stay's that way

 

thanks mate ... but you know the next question ....

how do i set up wireless networking

 

Oh FFS

M8, seriously, are you anywhere near Kent

I was round Tony Turbo's house for about an hour trying to get his working

 

ha ha ha ha

 

No laughing matter m8, it was proper painfull Got it going in the end tho

 

he he .. well its still going ...