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Never could get that board boot off a flash drive, had to find a installation DVD in my old scrap box.

Update: I let the board sit for some days without battery. Did the reboot procedures as suggested... and sata controller is back. All working again. Except for the 2 week old SSD, that's toast. Sent it back, got my refund. Can a bad SSD temporarily disable sata controllers ? Well anyways...

Can't get past BIOS setting

Still letting the board sit clearing the BIOS. See what happens.

Yes. I used knowingly working hdd to test. Even an old sata DVD . I tested different psu , same problem.

Nice idea, gonna try that. Using igpu.

a picture of BIOS

well the thing is its brand new hardware (yeah they selling that old stuff here in Asia) so i would like to know what to send back for replacement. Just 2 weeks old.

i have a brand new A68 fm2+ chipset board with an A8 7670k . Sata SSD as drive. Worked fine for 2 weeks then it just turned off ,rebooted in BIOS settings (UEFI) and no more sata drives detected. Tried all 4 sata ports and different cables , different HDD , nothing. No sata device detected. Mobo...

Damn im really out of the business for a long time...

Video card only requires a 6 pin connector, wondering why since it's supposed to be a 70w card only, I guess the 2 fans need it.

I know I have been out of the business for a long time, but had to upgrade after over 10 years. New build, a320 chipset mobo, ryzen 5 2600, 2x 8gb ram, gtx 1050ti, 1 ssd, 3x 2.5" 5400rpm hdd, an old swifttech water pump (the small one, forgot the number) and a couple of fans. Would a 350w...

I have the same gpu cooler together with an apogee for my cpu. Sitting unused in a box for almost 10 years now. Together with the other parts. Was thinking about using them again, just not sure if they are still trust worthy cause of the rubber gaskets.

thanks, gonna give it a try when the time comes. Meanwhile i testet skype on Lubuntu in VB and again on Debian with PA instead of alsa. Works fine on Debian with PA. On Lubuntu it doesnt work out of the box either even though i installed it from their repos. Works if i switch to PA. I found a...

really not much goin on in the browser market. Was trying out maxthon, opera, palemoon compared to firefox....other than the GUI not much difference at all. Nothin loads faster or slower in any of them. Can as well stay with firefox.

thanks so far. Just read that skype as of version 4.3 dropped support for alsa. Older versions like 4.2 with alsa support dont let you login anymore. :( My netbook hardware got problems with PA, thats why i switched to pure alsa. Another reason to ban MS out of my house, really gettin...

Ok here the details. im trying to install skype on Debian Jessie 32bit and Debian Testing 64bit. Im following the guide in the Debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/skype). The 32bit Debian version is on my netbook. Pekwm as WM, no DM no DE. Alsa audio driver. The 64bit Debian version is on...

yep one of the visualC++ runtimes is missing. Trying to get it.

really ? maybe you can give me a hint. We need it for cross-world chatting, since its the only way for them to see their grandkids. Switched to skype a year ago, so dont know what it looked like before.

Good to hear that. LM is for sure a fine distro not to mention their outstanding customer support. Everything really works right out of the box. Well but the Debian world is a little bit different. Many things that work or are easily available in Ubuntu based distros can be a pain in the ... to...

yeah i know that one...dillo is lightweight but not something really up to date anymore. Too limited with an outdated UI.

anybody with some input to opera ? light doesnt work...some dll file is missing...

thanks for the input so far. Vivaldi sounds interesting but since its still under development...better wait and see where it goes. Need something reliable for daily use now. Light is only half the download size of the other browsers, looks like it lost a lot of fat. Might be worth a try...

i know skype is available for linux. Thanks for the link though. But its only available for 32bit and not for 64bit OS. I was trying to install it on 64bit Debian, needed to pull a mountain of dependencies and never really got it to work. Did another try on a 32bit Debian. This time install went...

did you ever try to do a clean install on your new harddrives ? Or did you always clone your data to the new drives ?

any recommendations for a lightweight browser ? Been using mostly firefox till now but since the recent updates im not really happy with it anymore. Kinda gettin bloated, slow and resource hungry lately. Not to mention annoying huge updates all the time. Not very usefull for people with a...

hope so. But who knows what comes after that...freedom and privacy ? I seriously doubt it. Wondering what can be worth a dime on all that BS that most people post in FB anyways.:confused:

well BOOnie he is over 70 years old now, he used windows98 on my old machine before. Got him a new laptop 3 years ago with windows7 on it. As long as its still working hes gonna stick to it, specially since there is no real alternative for skype on linux yet. But basically i agree with you that...

well i guess you didnt get the point. I really dont see any sense to pay for an not exactly cheap OS and then have to go thru all the hassle to get rid of the bloat. Then have to install drivers and buy again mountains of software to keep it clean and running. Not to mention that i have to...

wish i could get my old man to use Linux. But well, his laptop came with windows7 preinstalled...

kinda easier to install and customize arch then get rid of windows bloat....:rolleyes:

tinycore is pretty tiny. Kinda less than 20mb if i remember it right. They should have firefox in their repositories.

so what you mean is that maybe the switch is adding too much resistance to the switching circuit on the mobo. While just holding together the 2 wire endings still let enough voltage pass to trigger the start. Since i used 3 different PSU on that same board in the last month and still got the...

second guess was that either the switch connector or the pins on the mobo was bad. Switch works fine with another mobo. So connector must be fine. Right now i got a connector plugged in with 2 wires hanging out of the back of my case. Got tired of opening the case every time i want to start up...

sorry cant do no recording, got no mic. It sounds similar to the clicking of a relay. But since i havent found any inside of the psu... Its not really a loud clicking, you have to get really close to hear it. I already disconnected the fan to rule that out.

bad switch was my first guess too. I connected that switch to another mobo and its working just fine. I got like 30 spare switches in a bag and trying most of them always gives me the same problem. Yes i used different wiring too. That mobo really "doesnt like" any switch...never seen...

got some strange issue with my biostar G31 mobo. I will not start if i connect the regular switch to the mobo. But it starts perfectly fine if i shorten the 2 pins with a screwdriver. A connector with 2 loose wires works fine too with only short contact. If i connect any switch to it it will not...

i got some clicking noise coming out of my PSU and no its not the fan. I disconnected the fan and that clicking noise continues. PSU is a Corsair HX620. I used it lightly for the rig in my sig over 4 years ago for not more than installing OS and a couple of games. Since then its been sitting in...

kinda :(

well its not that hard to offer a different GUI for each kind of user group upfront. Like they got their profesional, home and ultimate edition. Its possible to do the same with GUIs. So each user can decide upfront which one suits his needs. Of course its nice if you can change GUI afterwards...