- Joined
- Jun 9, 2006
- Location
- Manchester UK
Hi Guys,
I have posted on the DFI Forum about a month back (was suggested I upgrade my psu – which I did) and basically I still have the same problem, which is this:
I bought a brand new Lanparty NF3 Ultra D board and a brand new AMD 64 3500+ to replace what I thought was a fried Asus A7n8x deluxe (Socket A). The reason I came to this conclusion was that no display was showing up on my monitor. This was directly after my brother tried fitting a Pentium fan to my AMD Athlon XP cpu (while I was at work). He later told me the computer started to boot and then after 5 seconds it went off.
When I put my AMD fan back in again (which had been taken out just to test another system I was building for a friend) I stumbled across this problem I am still having now. The monitor would show no display although everything else was running fine including all fans, the hard drive and all optical drives etc.
To try and locate the problem I changed everything in the system, and I mean ‘Everything’ including all cables and power supply, either with parts from my older system or from my friends pc. Eventually it booted when I tried a very old Asus board (about 7-8 year old board). This is what made me think it was the board that was the problem.
I decided to go AMD 64 at this point and bought, as mentioned above a DFI Lanparty NF3 Ultra D board and AMD 64 3500 cpu. I assembled this, along with the parts from my best system (the former Athlon Xp Asus combo). This included a Tagan 420w psu, Geil pc3200 DDR dual channel, Western Digital SATA 160gb HDD and ATI 9800pro AGP graphics card. I was totally expecting the thing to boot but the same thing happened again, no display on the monitor but everything was running as it should, fan-wise etc.
At this point I started to troubleshoot again and this is what I have now changed and to no avail:
Swapped Tagan 420w psu for Brand New Tagan 580w psu.
Swapped AMD 64 3500+ for my friends fully working identical cpu.
Tried a friends fully working Asus A8V board almost brand new.
Tried 4 different sticks of ram. (3 sticks of Geil pc3200 and one stick hynix pc2700).
Tried 3 additional graphics cards (1 ATI and 2 GeForce).
Tried 2 additional hard drives of the older IDE type.
3 different monitors.
And all cables including power cable.
Something that defiantly seems wrong is that the system will only start up when the 20 pin ATX plug from the psu is plugged in and not the additional 4 pin ATX plug. When both the 20 and the 4 pin are plugged in, the system fans run for a mere nano second and then grind to a halt. What is this?? With just the 20 pin ATX in the pc will run until I choose to turn it off, but as I say with no display to the monitor. With all components now swapped from other working pc’s I have nothing else to try. I have even had it all out of the case just on the off chance the board was being shorted by the case or something, but still no change. Could these problems all be because of that Pentium fan being used, if so how it’s a completely different system almost (different board, cpu, psu,). I am totally lost with this now, I have asked everyone and I have quite a few decent contacts in computing and no1 seems to have heard of it before and all they have done is suggest things to try that iv tried 10 times over already.
If there is anyone who has had this (or a similar problem with this or even another board – seen as the problem continued with the Asus A8V) then please let me know I have been so close to throwing it on many occasion lol, no really I would be very grateful of any info anyone has.
If anyone has even read this far, thanks – hope you can help,
Cheers Adam.
I have posted on the DFI Forum about a month back (was suggested I upgrade my psu – which I did) and basically I still have the same problem, which is this:
I bought a brand new Lanparty NF3 Ultra D board and a brand new AMD 64 3500+ to replace what I thought was a fried Asus A7n8x deluxe (Socket A). The reason I came to this conclusion was that no display was showing up on my monitor. This was directly after my brother tried fitting a Pentium fan to my AMD Athlon XP cpu (while I was at work). He later told me the computer started to boot and then after 5 seconds it went off.
When I put my AMD fan back in again (which had been taken out just to test another system I was building for a friend) I stumbled across this problem I am still having now. The monitor would show no display although everything else was running fine including all fans, the hard drive and all optical drives etc.
To try and locate the problem I changed everything in the system, and I mean ‘Everything’ including all cables and power supply, either with parts from my older system or from my friends pc. Eventually it booted when I tried a very old Asus board (about 7-8 year old board). This is what made me think it was the board that was the problem.
I decided to go AMD 64 at this point and bought, as mentioned above a DFI Lanparty NF3 Ultra D board and AMD 64 3500 cpu. I assembled this, along with the parts from my best system (the former Athlon Xp Asus combo). This included a Tagan 420w psu, Geil pc3200 DDR dual channel, Western Digital SATA 160gb HDD and ATI 9800pro AGP graphics card. I was totally expecting the thing to boot but the same thing happened again, no display on the monitor but everything was running as it should, fan-wise etc.
At this point I started to troubleshoot again and this is what I have now changed and to no avail:
Swapped Tagan 420w psu for Brand New Tagan 580w psu.
Swapped AMD 64 3500+ for my friends fully working identical cpu.
Tried a friends fully working Asus A8V board almost brand new.
Tried 4 different sticks of ram. (3 sticks of Geil pc3200 and one stick hynix pc2700).
Tried 3 additional graphics cards (1 ATI and 2 GeForce).
Tried 2 additional hard drives of the older IDE type.
3 different monitors.
And all cables including power cable.
Something that defiantly seems wrong is that the system will only start up when the 20 pin ATX plug from the psu is plugged in and not the additional 4 pin ATX plug. When both the 20 and the 4 pin are plugged in, the system fans run for a mere nano second and then grind to a halt. What is this?? With just the 20 pin ATX in the pc will run until I choose to turn it off, but as I say with no display to the monitor. With all components now swapped from other working pc’s I have nothing else to try. I have even had it all out of the case just on the off chance the board was being shorted by the case or something, but still no change. Could these problems all be because of that Pentium fan being used, if so how it’s a completely different system almost (different board, cpu, psu,). I am totally lost with this now, I have asked everyone and I have quite a few decent contacts in computing and no1 seems to have heard of it before and all they have done is suggest things to try that iv tried 10 times over already.
If there is anyone who has had this (or a similar problem with this or even another board – seen as the problem continued with the Asus A8V) then please let me know I have been so close to throwing it on many occasion lol, no really I would be very grateful of any info anyone has.
If anyone has even read this far, thanks – hope you can help,
Cheers Adam.
