Recent content by vashnlol

True, hopefully I dont take out a friends board in the name of testing

I'll have to take it somewhere to find a new am2/2+ mobo to try, ill gladly trash this mobo because of the small form factor really makes it difficult to do anything to it, where normal mobos have 3 screws on the side, this one has 4 total. The only annoying part is that my os is oem so I have...

He's not home ATM so I have to wait until tomorrow for his insight, but I reset the bios by pulling the battery and still nothing on screen I took off the CPU heatsink and felt it to check if it warmed up, and it did, but Is there any other way to check the CPU for lively ness? My mobo only...

Ok I just tried every stick of ram I had, in every slot. Than 1 ram in slot closest to CPU slot, swapped the video card twice still nothing on screen, how would I go about resetting bios without seeing the screen?

I'll try this in the morning, it's 5 15 am and I found a friend of my dads that builds computers and will look at it for me my mobo or case has no speaker built in so I guess I'm gonna have to just try everything until video shows, ram sounds like a good starting point question though, if the...

Are you sure it's the screw your looking for? Pictures would help I could recommend a high power magnet grabber and try to turn it out, like those used in auto repair ( you can find them at menards) but I'm not very experienced and the magnet would prolly mess up something, so don't try it...

I've tried moving it back to old psu case and vide card, still no go so it would be apparent I messed something up in the transfer I really don't know what I messed up though, my mobo has no 4 pin power slot, the psu is 20 pin as is the mobo the mobos CPU fan spins which leads me to beleive...

I have a 500gig hitachi, my only hdd and it holds my os I moved my mobo from a small form factor case and upgraded the video card and psu so I hooked everything up, turned it on, and all the LEDs and front panels work, CPU fan is working plugged into the mobo, so I think that's ok. The psu...

MSI announced the low profile 5670 releasing "soon" i'm pumped http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/msi-releases-low-profile-ati-radeon-hd-5670-20100721/ edit: 61 watts TDP, it's gonna be pushing even those with the upgraded sparkles it seems

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102874&cm_re=5570_low_profile-_-14-102-874-_-Product is a monster, but you need atleast 200 watt to use it under load. heres the anandtech review, it's 3x as good as the 4550, from a price standpoint it'd be crazy to get the 4550 being...

it's the fan looking directly through the dvd drive, you'll see it directly through it if your disc drive is taken out. it's on the far back i cleaned the dust off it when i removed the dvd drive, ima open it up right now and see if it is unplugged somewhere. it has to be that or it's just...

Another super edit: i think i'm done with this slimline case. The only cards that i could ugprade to even with the slightly better psu's are still pretty bad for todays games (albeit the 9800 is pretty beast). Im just gonna gut the case and move it all to a medium sized case, order the psu...