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So my friend dropped off a rig from around 2005 that he said died and he wasn't about to fix.
Specs:
Mobo: DFI NF4-DAGF (Nforce-4 Vanilla)
Ram: 512MB (Corsair XMS) 512 MB (Ultra [?], not inserted)
Case/PSU: RaidMax Cobra
Optical: [Some IDE combo drive]
HD: [Some IDE drive]
Floppy: [Some generic drive]
GPU: none, told me he sold it to a friend a while back, I have a spare 6600GT
Using my Logitech USB Mouse, IBM PS/2 Keyboard, and Dell DVI monitor.
After this thread working out the 20 to 24 pin power issue, flogge so nicely mailed me a 20-24 pin adapter. I plugged it in and pressed the power button. After some beeps (the kind that you might hear on a perfectly functional system), everything received power and I heard some hard drive activity. The problem was that nothing appeared on screen. A little too comfortable with this system already, I opened the case while it was on and put some pressure on my 6600GT. Nothing. So I turn it off, take out the card, and carefully reseat it. Reseat being a relative term, as his back panel has been more or less mutilated, and I had to bend away the metal dividers to get it to seat in the first place. The second time, it seemed as though all the pins were in the PCI-e slot, but still nothing on screen. I turned it off and tried pushing in the card a little more, and this is when I freaked out. Stupidly, I was putting pressure on the heatsink, and I felt the thermal contact break. In a hurry I got a pair of pliers and took off the heatsink, I hadn't crushed the die. When I get home I'm going to reseat the heatsink with some arctic silver, I really hope I havent ruined my faithful 66GT.
In any case, or I should say, In any other case, I think this hardware would work. My current plan is to run the mobo next to the case like a testbed, to see if I can push the video card in all the way. I also need to acquire a PCI video card to see if the slot is dead. I also have the feeling that I should look up beep codes for this mobo, but they really do sound pretty normal.
What does [H] think about this situation?
Specs:
Mobo: DFI NF4-DAGF (Nforce-4 Vanilla)
Ram: 512MB (Corsair XMS) 512 MB (Ultra [?], not inserted)
Case/PSU: RaidMax Cobra
Optical: [Some IDE combo drive]
HD: [Some IDE drive]
Floppy: [Some generic drive]
GPU: none, told me he sold it to a friend a while back, I have a spare 6600GT
Using my Logitech USB Mouse, IBM PS/2 Keyboard, and Dell DVI monitor.
After this thread working out the 20 to 24 pin power issue, flogge so nicely mailed me a 20-24 pin adapter. I plugged it in and pressed the power button. After some beeps (the kind that you might hear on a perfectly functional system), everything received power and I heard some hard drive activity. The problem was that nothing appeared on screen. A little too comfortable with this system already, I opened the case while it was on and put some pressure on my 6600GT. Nothing. So I turn it off, take out the card, and carefully reseat it. Reseat being a relative term, as his back panel has been more or less mutilated, and I had to bend away the metal dividers to get it to seat in the first place. The second time, it seemed as though all the pins were in the PCI-e slot, but still nothing on screen. I turned it off and tried pushing in the card a little more, and this is when I freaked out. Stupidly, I was putting pressure on the heatsink, and I felt the thermal contact break. In a hurry I got a pair of pliers and took off the heatsink, I hadn't crushed the die. When I get home I'm going to reseat the heatsink with some arctic silver, I really hope I havent ruined my faithful 66GT.
In any case, or I should say, In any other case, I think this hardware would work. My current plan is to run the mobo next to the case like a testbed, to see if I can push the video card in all the way. I also need to acquire a PCI video card to see if the slot is dead. I also have the feeling that I should look up beep codes for this mobo, but they really do sound pretty normal.
What does [H] think about this situation?
