Recent content by wetnose

It works now!!! Plugged in the 24 pin connector & the 4 pin into the motherboard and she booted up with no problems at all!!! Thanks to all!!!!

ooops, shoulda read the replies....yes, so I will plug the 24 pin and the 4 pin in. Will give that a try and report back. Man, I'm sure new at this. Thanks once again.

Thanks for all the replies. I'm using the stock AMD heatsink. I'm going to go back and try all your suggestions. Thanks a lot!!!! I was thinking that not plugging the 4 pin might be the cause, but when I plugged the 4 pin into the 4 pin socket and the 20 pin into the 24 pin, it wouldn't...

Hi, I just got all my components in place so I assembled them all on the Friday. When I switched on the power, the MSI board (K8N Neo 4) told me (it has this groovy USB card that also has 4 colored lights that tell you what's going on) that the processor was faulty. I'm hoping it's...

by lazn: But if you are building a new system from scratch, why limit yourself to AGP, when PCIe is not significantly more money, and will let you keep your system current for that much longer? It would be like buying the very last of the fastest and best Horse and Buggy, after the Model T had...

Power supply would be a 420 w from Enermax. But at least 420, right?

Certainly very well thought out answers. I appreciate what you guys said about the upgrade path...I wonder what's the performance difference betwee a PCI express card & AGP card?

Hi, Man, I haven't done this for years! My last build was a P266, so it's been a long time. I'm amazed at how far AMD has come - the 3200 is about a third of the price of the Intel 3.8 GHz and performs slightly better. (anantech) Amazing. Anyways, I'll be using my build for 60% strategy...