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Recent content by north6633

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    Looking for Reccomendations for a Motherboad

    Well i have pretty much dtermined teh the PSU has taken out my motherboard. Going to order a new one. My current board is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX and is no longer in stock at New Egg or Tiger Direct. I have seen it at zipzoomfly but I am a littel leary of the...
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    Testing a PSU

    Thanks its a MSI board and its been working for about a year and a half. I have had weird issue with it not starting up right away prior to this happening. It would post, then just stop. and sit there for about 3 minutes the boot up normally. If I reset it it would boot up normally. It been...
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    Testing a PSU

    No neither PSU works. The old antec does nothing at all when plugged into the board. except for when its switched off. Then the fans get a power bump. something I would guess is a bad thing. The new PSU just fires up the fans on the board. But will turn on and off with the case power switch...
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    Testing a PSU

    Bumping to see if anyone has any ideas...
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    Testing a PSU

    How do yoou know when a PSU is bad I have a Antec True Power 2.0 450. I have used a Multi meter and jumpered across the 24 pin connectot to check voltages. They all check out with tolerances. But I hook it up to the Mobo and nothing. just a high pitch squeal from the PSU. The squel was not...
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    Did my PSU kill more than just my Mobo?

    Thanks for the responses. I am not sure what I will do. Unless I got a DOA PSU I am relatively certain its not the PSU. But on never knows. what a fucking pain in the ass. This is my computer I do most of my work on and now I am limping by on our old laptop. I just want to get it working...
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    Did my PSU kill more than just my Mobo?

    The PSU I bought was new. The old PSU was an Antec Smart Power 450. It does nothing with the system. Does not turn on the fans or anything. It makes a high pitch squeal when powered up. I am pretty sure its toast. My problem is I really don't have a machine to test it in and I would hate for...
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    Did my PSU kill more than just my Mobo?

    I have been yet another unlucky owner of an Antec PSU that came with a Sonata II case. The PSU quit last week and I ordered a new PSU to replace it hoping the nothing else took a hit in the process. Well I got the new PSU and installed it and all that happened is the fans fired up. I have...
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    Lag before Windows startup

    I have searched to see if anyone else has had this problem. to no avail. What is happening is when I sturt my computer up. It goes through the BIOS and detects the drives. Then just stops and sets there for about 3 minutes. Nothing happening hthe harddrive isn't running nothing. Then all of...
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    XP HOME Start up Problem

    Just tried you suggestion Z-lite, tried it in safe mode and normal mode. Window won't let me use the /f switch. Says the drive is locked and being used by another application. Tried the do it at start up but that did not work either. Ugggh.. this is driving me crazy, I suspect it might have to...
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    XP HOME Start up Problem

    I tried doing a search to fiind out if anyone else has had similar problems, but no luck there. Here is the problem, when i first start up the computer everything boots up fine, runes through the BIOS and then it goes to start windows and nothing happens, just a blank screen, hard drives not...
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    Went with the Fujiplus FP-988D.. So far so good

    Slider No I haven't but I have not done a whole lot with it yet. Finished my build last night and installed some software this morning. I am going to do more tonight. Everything looks really good though. I have been working on a low Dell laptop for the last 2 years. When I look at the...
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    Went with the Fujiplus FP-988D.. So far so good

    Thanks to everyine who responded to my threads on selecting different monitors. I ended up going with the FP-988D. I just got it up an d running late last night after putting my computer togther. So far so good, no apparent dead pixels , the colors look great with out even attempting any...
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    FP-988D: the good and bad

    Slider, just ordered one of these from newegg... Now that you have had it a bot longer, how is it working for you? have you figured out why its darker on teh top than the bottom? Have you got teh colors dialed in? Thanks
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    FP-988D: the good and bad

    Slider would be very interested in hearing you thoughts after some more use. I am looking really hard at this monitor. Its going for a great price right now and looks liek it will meet my needs. would be interested in finding out how much fine tuning is required for to get he colors right...
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