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Old 25th January 2008, 19:58   #21 (permalink)
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Nate, just a thought, does your video card require separate power source like some video cards do? I had few which needed to be connected to one of the power cables from power supply, others I have get the power from the motherboard...
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Old 26th January 2008, 14:53   #22 (permalink)
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Hi, LG

My card gets all its juice from the mobo
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Old 29th January 2008, 03:39   #23 (permalink)
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W00t SUCCESS !!!!!!

RUNNING!!!

Thanks for the tips.

Yeah, my wife told me I should assemble it out of the case.
I did, it worked. When I plug in the "LCD Poster" (the manual doesn't say what that does anyway) it goes back to nothing at all at post, and the led for cpu voltage goes to crazy... without the lcd poster, the system runs fine so far. I haven't set up anything or installed software, just OS (for now, Win xp)

The fan is a bit of a problem, the 4-pin click-ins don't want to so I have to figure out something else... maybe another fan.

Sure was sweating getting this baby running... what a relief!

I had nightmares of a bad mobo, cpu, etc... YIKES!

THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR VERY KIND HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT
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Old 29th January 2008, 07:22   #24 (permalink)
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Well done ! Which fan is a problem ? The are lots of fans in this case ?
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Old 29th January 2008, 07:24   #25 (permalink)
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Some times malformed computer cases will cause an unintentional ground.

Make sure the walls of the computer case are free of all parts, except for those intended to be attached.

Poorly constructed cutouts on computer cases some times do not match the slots in the back.

More than once I've had graphics card unseated because the slots that were misaligned cause the card to unseat.
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Old 29th January 2008, 14:06   #26 (permalink)
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Well done ! Which fan is a problem ? The are lots of fans in this case ?
The cpu fan is a 4-pin connect system. The fan sits atop the cpu and has 4 plastic pins that go through the matching holes in the mobo, when you push down on the black plunger running down the center of these pins it is supposed to push the pin through the hole, then expand the little barbed end of the pin once it is through the hole and secure the fan to mobo and make it snug to the cpu (so heat sink is in contact with the thermal paste and surface of the cpu).

It is a mickey-mouse setup - some of the pins will not snap at all and others go in but then pop loose. I've tried adjusting the pins - some are in and some out, so for the time being I have the rig laying on its side with the mobo and fan facing up instead of in their normal position which would be sideways when the case is in its upright position. Using gravity to keep things where they belong until I can fix this annoyingingly simple and stupid problem.
Most of the 775 fans use this pin system... my fan is a Thermaltake 775D with heat pipes on the side. Seems like a good fan except for dorky hardware.

This has been a long and hair raising process of building this system... all along the "LCD Poster" - a little thing that looks like a tiny digital clock with a wire that connects to the mobo - was apparently the culprit. Connected I get no post, not even a beep - take it out and all is well. So far I haven't found a word in the manual that tells what this dingus is supposed to tell you. So far I've resisted the urge to smash the demonic doo-dad to smitherines.

Thanks again for the support and help to all-a-y'all (pardon the southern dialect)
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Old 29th January 2008, 15:19   #27 (permalink)
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hum i have an Asus mobo (P5k premium blahblah) and the same computer case than you but i made my computer build by the hardware vendor and i just had to finalize the installation of the CPU fan because it's so heavy that it could travel to my house being in place...
This said it was done by professionals, but this tiny LCD screen (normaly it's using a floppy disk place in the box) you've mentioned was not setup in my system while it's mentionned in the mobo's doc... regarding what you've said, maybe it's a piece of crap ???

For the southern dialect i can just understand 38 special, Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd because i can read their song
hum maybe it's just southern accent not dialect BTW
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Old 10th February 2008, 19:45   #28 (permalink)
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W00t ZOOOM-ZOONM-ZOOOOOMMM!!!

WOW!

I installed Carrara on the new system... The quad core processor smokes and I haven't even installed the big graphics card yet (one I'm using is 128 megs, will move my 512 to this box soon).

Installing apps and drivers now... plus handling the work stuff... but I'm getting there. Super relieved this system is coming together
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Old 25th February 2008, 19:26   #29 (permalink)
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I had a Chaintech mobo that gave me the no video no POST headache several years ago. In that case, it turned out that it did not like the NEC DVD burner, which was good. I am still using that DVD burner, on an ECS mobo.
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