Die!! Frankie. DIE!!!

[FZfile]

Ok
Now I'm starting to get a little bit pissed at this Franken-piece-o-crap project of mine.

I went back to the baord, so to speak, after getting a "floppy failed (40)" error message and took the drives out and started from (almost) scratch.

I have an AMD K6-2 533 but it was only reading 233 (besides the floppy error).
I was asked if I had set the jumpers for the buss speed and voltage (NO!!) and if the light on the front of the floppy STAYED on (YES!!).
I was told to flip the floppy cable around so that the red stripe was on pin 1 and to set the jumpers.

....which I did.

I also made sure all of the device (drive) jumpers were set correctly and rearranged the placement of everything so it was more logical and neat in the case.

Put it back together......plug it in.......N O T H I N G ! ! ! ! !


What the f*#&???

the power supply now does nothing.
Well....the screen makes a very faint flicker.....and then nothing.
It just worked (incorrectly) last night.

I thought it was a short in the switch, played with that, nothing.
Tried different power cabel.
tried plugging it into a different socket (in another room)

NADA
ZIP
Completely stumped.

Its not that I absolutely WONT buy a new PS but the freaking thing JUST worked and all I did was unplug it and change some jumpers on the mother board.


H E L P !!!!

Also there is a setting for 112mHz CPU buss clock and 112mHz SDRAM clock speed (as well as 100/100 and below).
What is that about????

The ratio settings are up through 5.0x and 5.5x so the could set the chip to run at 616???????????

I set it for 100/100 at a 5.5x ratio so I guess i would be overclocking by 17mHz (at 550). I assume that is no big deal. I have a burly hs/fan (new one).

...that is, no big deal if the frigging thing had any juice.

Is there some kind of tripper or internal breaker that might have triped?????

Somebody please shoot me.
I just want to make pretty looking sounds.

-mike

 

[drstawl]

If i were concerned about the PS I'd get a voltmeter and just check what the bad boy was putting out.

Don't get bogged down giving up on a set of variables until you have really done the testing. I Believe you when you say you are frustrated but:

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[Stealthtech]

Would you say its possible he has fried the PS !!
Terrible thing to be digging around in there with the possibility of static discharge.
Constant light on Floppy usually means incorrect connection.
CPU settings are setup in the BIOS. Manual if jumper free or auto detect.

 

[Brad]

This may sound really simple, but give it a try:

Make sure your video card is fully seated. This happened to me once when I was messing with the guts of my machine. I swore up and down that I never even touched my video card, so how could I have knocked it out of whack. But that is what it was. And the fact that it wasn't seated all the way was causing the thing not to power up. I don't fully understand why that is, but it made since when my IT buddy told me why.

So, even though it may sound stupid, check your video card.


Brad

 

[FZfile]

Thanks guys

DRSTAWL,

That is a hillarious and inspiring little cartoon. Thanks.
You are right. I unplugged the power leads to all of the drives and board and got real close to the box and hit the switch.

It did make a little tiny buzzing noise, very faint, but the fan did not kick on. I went and got my old power supply from our first computer and that dont work either so I just went to Comp USA on my lunch hour and got a generic 250W new and now.....

I have power.
I have a CPU recognised at 550 and 262mb memory
and Award Plug and play BIOS Extention v1.0A


....and now thats as far as it boots.

I see the keyboard light up and the bottom of the screen says
_____"Press DEL to enter SETUP"....but DEL does nothing.

?????????? Now what???????????

I notice that none of the lights on the drives light up.

I have them now set to :

2.5G = master on IDE controller 1 (boot drive)
40G = master on IDE 2
CD Rom = slave IDE 2

None of them are set to CABLE SELECT. Does any of this make a difference?????

BTW
Thanks also STEALTHTECH and Brad.

Stealth, I think I must have fried it....but dont know how. I have been fairly careful about static.
Switching the jumpers seems to have worked, haven't gotten to the BIOS yet.

Brad, it doesnt sound stupid to try the card except.....I dont have a card, just the onboard video.


Well, at least I'm one step closer.
I am kind of glad to get the new PS anyway because the old one was only 150W any way.

I appreciate the input.

-Mike