Get Your Thinking Caps On

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Tue May 13, 2003 7:17 pm

ok here it is.

windows me computer.

amd 900 cpu 225 mbs of ram.

just put in new video card ati 8500 radeon, new cdrw memorex 52 24 52.

put the network card back in since i took the ati pci all in wonder out.

started computer.

got it on right now. it is on the boot up dos screen says it has

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award modular bios v6.00pg energy star ally
copyright award software.

w6340Ms v2.5 081500 10: 08 : 43

main processor : AMD Athlon(tn) 918MHz

press del to enter setup, esc to sk
8/15/2000

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and that is all it says it will not find any thing but the cpu? does not start the usb mouse or anything.?

what is going on does anyone know??

thanks all fans are working .

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue May 13, 2003 7:29 pm

I have no clue, maybe someone else can help you. Try removing one piece of hard ware at a time to see if it might be one thing causing it, start by the network card and work your way, or just switch video cards to see if it's actually the video card. Check the setup to make sure your hd settings are ok, maybe it reset for some reason.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Tue May 13, 2003 11:16 pm

Did you press del to enter setup? It should give you 3 startup choices, safe mode, normal or selective...if I remember correctly.

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Tue May 13, 2003 11:32 pm

It might be windows ME... hehe ( i use that). You could go in with a boot disk and look around or do what red said, you might have installed too many new things at once.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Wed May 14, 2003 12:47 am

close the thread red.

should have looked first this is just the cake. only answer i could find on the net anywhere for the trouble i had was the video card was bad.

so i did what i said in the first post and replaced it and the cdrw.

i wasted money when i did not have to. i took the so called experts words on it as being the thing that was wrong.

thats the diploma they have it aint any more then an icon.

no one on this site said it was the video card. which is good they just said they did not know.

i did not bother to scan over the system when i installed the new things i said in the first post.

i should have

my fault for taking the word of so called experts.

the trouble was not the video card. the computer was not booting and only showing the boot up screen for two seconds and shutting down for good reason. which was not the video card.

so when i changed the video card i got the error as listed in the first post in this thread.

the trouble is that a cap.. on the mb. by the amd cpu heat sink blew up.

this cap... is on the ms - 6340 VER: 1 mb. the mb also has N1996 on it in a square with a nikie check mark.

so i wonder if the they made them out of old gym shoes.

the cap.. that blew up is big and green with gold markings on it.. and there are about 10 of them on the mb. this one is in the right place for extra heat to get too it. (beside the heat sink and behind another cap.. that blocks any breeze that might cool down the cap.. that blew up.)

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Thu May 15, 2003 1:07 am

so.... not a good thing then? Did you check for compatibility beforehand?

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:41 am

fixed this also and said so in the post in one of these forums when i said i bought a new mother board, for the win me.

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