ShunNakamura
07-29-2005, 10:59 PM
Anyone who has been paying attention to this forum has prolly realized.. some comp trouble I have been having. I can usually fix them up fine.. but I have had several curves thrown my way as of late. Mainly that if something goes wrong with hardware I don't have spares to check.. and if it is a newer comp I am fixing parts from mine won't be compatable.
However the 2 questions deal with my friends computer that I have been trying to fix. First I finally got a chip I could test in it. My dad's new server will be a bit till it is up so I took a chip from it and put it in my friends. The long beeps I didn't hear any of.. but I don't generally with his chip nowadays anyways. However, even with the new chip his comp is touchy as can be. Walk past it and you can lock it up.. actually it locks up randomly quite often. I just figured it had to do with why the ram chip keeps randomly doing the long beeps. But since it has mostly quit that(completely as far as I have see with the other chip) it is obviousally not the ram chip.
So now I am left looking at the mother board. Not a good thing. My friend is tired of putting money in it. they got 300$(or so) in it now(or thereabouts.. AMD Athlone 2400+ processor, 512 2700pc ram, AOpen mother board, a g-force card(have to double check think it was 64 megs of video ram though), Cobra sound card, DVD player(duals as a cd player/burner/ripper), some lights for it's inside etc. Power supply is a 300W(I have been eyeing it wondering if it could be the problem).
Anyways What all could make a comp touchy like that? I am going to try resetting the mother board. Perhaps try another case If I can find one.. this one they use now ain't the best(the pulled it out of someones trash :rolleyes2).
Problem 2: Friend wants 98 on it(he had it on it originally) however anytime I get 98 on it(a difficult task when the slightest bump can shut it down) I end up with windows protection fault. Grr... the new chip didn't help that at all(both new and old get the fault). I played in the safemode settings and nothing seems to help. Dad tells me he had a similar problem with AMD processors before and using ME was what he resorted to. However my friend hates ME nearly as much as I do. And I don't think I could talk them into getting XP for 200-300$ how much ever it is in my area at the moment.
So do some AMD processors fluke with win98 SE(I have heard some say so.. but first time I have seen it first hand)?
Thanks in advance... will have to play with it later tonight when I get some free table space.
p.s. in regard to those who wonder... that was my dads response to the broken old server(the dead power supply one) go out and by a new one... while we wait till he gets a good deal on a power supply. He was going to let me play with the new one after the old is back up.. but I don't wanna play with it... that thing is made to annoy anyone foolish enough to try and change anything in it.. tight, cramped the power supply is mounted on the side.. Basically microsized tower(close anyways) with an ATX form mother board... bad bad bad ... it does have some nice ram that I could find useful though... processor ain't uggly either but the cass... :cry:
However the 2 questions deal with my friends computer that I have been trying to fix. First I finally got a chip I could test in it. My dad's new server will be a bit till it is up so I took a chip from it and put it in my friends. The long beeps I didn't hear any of.. but I don't generally with his chip nowadays anyways. However, even with the new chip his comp is touchy as can be. Walk past it and you can lock it up.. actually it locks up randomly quite often. I just figured it had to do with why the ram chip keeps randomly doing the long beeps. But since it has mostly quit that(completely as far as I have see with the other chip) it is obviousally not the ram chip.
So now I am left looking at the mother board. Not a good thing. My friend is tired of putting money in it. they got 300$(or so) in it now(or thereabouts.. AMD Athlone 2400+ processor, 512 2700pc ram, AOpen mother board, a g-force card(have to double check think it was 64 megs of video ram though), Cobra sound card, DVD player(duals as a cd player/burner/ripper), some lights for it's inside etc. Power supply is a 300W(I have been eyeing it wondering if it could be the problem).
Anyways What all could make a comp touchy like that? I am going to try resetting the mother board. Perhaps try another case If I can find one.. this one they use now ain't the best(the pulled it out of someones trash :rolleyes2).
Problem 2: Friend wants 98 on it(he had it on it originally) however anytime I get 98 on it(a difficult task when the slightest bump can shut it down) I end up with windows protection fault. Grr... the new chip didn't help that at all(both new and old get the fault). I played in the safemode settings and nothing seems to help. Dad tells me he had a similar problem with AMD processors before and using ME was what he resorted to. However my friend hates ME nearly as much as I do. And I don't think I could talk them into getting XP for 200-300$ how much ever it is in my area at the moment.
So do some AMD processors fluke with win98 SE(I have heard some say so.. but first time I have seen it first hand)?
Thanks in advance... will have to play with it later tonight when I get some free table space.
p.s. in regard to those who wonder... that was my dads response to the broken old server(the dead power supply one) go out and by a new one... while we wait till he gets a good deal on a power supply. He was going to let me play with the new one after the old is back up.. but I don't wanna play with it... that thing is made to annoy anyone foolish enough to try and change anything in it.. tight, cramped the power supply is mounted on the side.. Basically microsized tower(close anyways) with an ATX form mother board... bad bad bad ... it does have some nice ram that I could find useful though... processor ain't uggly either but the cass... :cry: