quiet mike
01-29-2005, 03:11 PM
You can find specs of the system here (http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.aspx?rigid=29511)
Wel it was a fun trip. The system is not top of the line so no benches I think...
I didn't ask much here but I read a lot so thank you for any advice you gave me unknowingly.
It was hard waiting for the system 5 weeks, knowing that by the time everything gets here I'll have no more warranties, so if it's DOA or something I'd be in trouble.
The shipment arrived at my house in Romania minutes before I got home. I am in a different city 4 days of the week for school. So I was glad to have all the 3 days I stay home to get it working.
I let everything 1 hour to warm up (some of the components were at almost 0C).
After everithing was room temperature I started building it. It took a while since I never installed a full PC. Once everything was in, I closed the case and pressed the power button. A bright flash from the Tsunami exaust fan and then silence. Second time I press the button nothing hapenes. So I close the powersupply disconect it and reconect. Again i see the bright flas on first try and nothing on the 2-20 try. So I open the case, check everything and see that the floppy is not correctly connected. Somehow I put the cable by letting 2 pins out.
I reconnect the floppy correctly and press the power button. It's 2am or so, so I have all the lights off, and the tower lights up from the fan. It's beautifull. I wait to boot up, but nothing hapenes. The monitor won't show anything (No Signal). I tried doesen reinserts of the Video card with no success. All the fans are working including the Video card one, I hear all the optical and disk drives spining, but no image on the monitor. At about 6 am I gave up. I wanted to post on the forums but I was tired so I went to sleep.
Second day I woke up, I went to the rig, and took everything out (man it's a pain to reconect those Firewhire pins for the Tsunami pannel) except the CPU and heatsink from the mob, since I heard horror stories about taking out the HSF from a A64 CPU. I started reconecting everything and try a boot after each component was inserted.
And guess wat... it's working now. I guess somwhere I had a short on the case or something.
Anyways, I'm now a happy gamer, since it tripled my scores on everything, and it looks cool while doing so.
Anyways, here are the pics. Ignore the bad wiring and picture positions.
Wel it was a fun trip. The system is not top of the line so no benches I think...
I didn't ask much here but I read a lot so thank you for any advice you gave me unknowingly.
It was hard waiting for the system 5 weeks, knowing that by the time everything gets here I'll have no more warranties, so if it's DOA or something I'd be in trouble.
The shipment arrived at my house in Romania minutes before I got home. I am in a different city 4 days of the week for school. So I was glad to have all the 3 days I stay home to get it working.
I let everything 1 hour to warm up (some of the components were at almost 0C).
After everithing was room temperature I started building it. It took a while since I never installed a full PC. Once everything was in, I closed the case and pressed the power button. A bright flash from the Tsunami exaust fan and then silence. Second time I press the button nothing hapenes. So I close the powersupply disconect it and reconect. Again i see the bright flas on first try and nothing on the 2-20 try. So I open the case, check everything and see that the floppy is not correctly connected. Somehow I put the cable by letting 2 pins out.
I reconnect the floppy correctly and press the power button. It's 2am or so, so I have all the lights off, and the tower lights up from the fan. It's beautifull. I wait to boot up, but nothing hapenes. The monitor won't show anything (No Signal). I tried doesen reinserts of the Video card with no success. All the fans are working including the Video card one, I hear all the optical and disk drives spining, but no image on the monitor. At about 6 am I gave up. I wanted to post on the forums but I was tired so I went to sleep.
Second day I woke up, I went to the rig, and took everything out (man it's a pain to reconect those Firewhire pins for the Tsunami pannel) except the CPU and heatsink from the mob, since I heard horror stories about taking out the HSF from a A64 CPU. I started reconecting everything and try a boot after each component was inserted.
And guess wat... it's working now. I guess somwhere I had a short on the case or something.
Anyways, I'm now a happy gamer, since it tripled my scores on everything, and it looks cool while doing so.
Anyways, here are the pics. Ignore the bad wiring and picture positions.