Hey, my gaming machine has a couple of quirks that I need some help with.
First:
EVGA 590 AM2 socket board
AMD 5000+ 64 X2 Dual 2.6 GHz
EVGA 7950 GT KO 512 MB
Sound Blaster 7.1 card
2x 1GB Crucial DDR2 PC 800
Liteon DVD+/-RW
OLD WD 80 GB hd ATA 133
new WD 500 GB HD SATA
Rosewill 500w powersupply
Background:
The machine was built into an old case, worked fine, had transfered it into the new Antec 900 gaming case (black with a lot of fans) for Christmas and worked even better. So I went to upgrade the powersupply because I don't trust the Rosewill one, and that is where the problems start. I bought an Antec Cool Master Real Power Pro 750w powersupply and went to install it, well I wasn't getting anything out of it and during all of the frustration and testing and moving of the powersupplies one of the screws managed to work its way up underneath the motherboard and fry it. It took the CPU with it, but I managed to RMA both so those are back brand new and fine. Exchanged the 750w Antec PS because I don't want the PS on there that my Machine fried with, originally thought that the PS had fried it. Everything else tested out fine, no problems but I didn't conduct the test, Geek Squad did because I was leaving for two weeks for vacation and they could do it for me. So:
Motherboard RMA New
CPU RMA New
HD's tested fine
DVD tested fine
Memory tested fine
sound Card tested fine
Video Card tested fine
Power Supplies are fine
1st problem:
I have an Antec Cool Master Real Power Pro 750w powersupply that will not power my system. Everything runs though at least all of the fans turn on, CPU, GPU, Case, the dvd drive opens and closes, etc. But there's nothing going to the Monitor and appears to be no HD activity (the light doesn't blink). Why does a 500w Rosewill (not as realiable brandname as antec). This is the second identical powersupply so it's not the actual Antec power supply being faultly but not being the right frequencies maybe?
2nd problem:
The PC is up and running with the 500, but now it spontanously freezes, the longest it lasted was maybe 2-3 hours usually not more then 30 minutes, shortest was I didn't even make it past the welcome screen when XP is booting up. All parts are still spinning, but I have no idea what is causing this. I want to say power is an issue but the computer was working fine before with the 500. I also put in a Linksys wireless N (the one with the cable that runs up to the funny looking antenna) and it cannot be next to the Sound Blaster Card or else it won't work. So I switched to on board audio and disabled the sound card, and it still locks up.
My thought is that it is the old ATA 133 hard drive just giving up the ghost slowly but surely. I would just say forget it and take it out but it has the windows on there and not on the 500 GB harddrive. And there are too many other things that are making me think it is something else. The Wireless card having troubles running next to another PCI card is a first.
First:
EVGA 590 AM2 socket board
AMD 5000+ 64 X2 Dual 2.6 GHz
EVGA 7950 GT KO 512 MB
Sound Blaster 7.1 card
2x 1GB Crucial DDR2 PC 800
Liteon DVD+/-RW
OLD WD 80 GB hd ATA 133
new WD 500 GB HD SATA
Rosewill 500w powersupply
Background:
The machine was built into an old case, worked fine, had transfered it into the new Antec 900 gaming case (black with a lot of fans) for Christmas and worked even better. So I went to upgrade the powersupply because I don't trust the Rosewill one, and that is where the problems start. I bought an Antec Cool Master Real Power Pro 750w powersupply and went to install it, well I wasn't getting anything out of it and during all of the frustration and testing and moving of the powersupplies one of the screws managed to work its way up underneath the motherboard and fry it. It took the CPU with it, but I managed to RMA both so those are back brand new and fine. Exchanged the 750w Antec PS because I don't want the PS on there that my Machine fried with, originally thought that the PS had fried it. Everything else tested out fine, no problems but I didn't conduct the test, Geek Squad did because I was leaving for two weeks for vacation and they could do it for me. So:
Motherboard RMA New
CPU RMA New
HD's tested fine
DVD tested fine
Memory tested fine
sound Card tested fine
Video Card tested fine
Power Supplies are fine
1st problem:
I have an Antec Cool Master Real Power Pro 750w powersupply that will not power my system. Everything runs though at least all of the fans turn on, CPU, GPU, Case, the dvd drive opens and closes, etc. But there's nothing going to the Monitor and appears to be no HD activity (the light doesn't blink). Why does a 500w Rosewill (not as realiable brandname as antec). This is the second identical powersupply so it's not the actual Antec power supply being faultly but not being the right frequencies maybe?
2nd problem:
The PC is up and running with the 500, but now it spontanously freezes, the longest it lasted was maybe 2-3 hours usually not more then 30 minutes, shortest was I didn't even make it past the welcome screen when XP is booting up. All parts are still spinning, but I have no idea what is causing this. I want to say power is an issue but the computer was working fine before with the 500. I also put in a Linksys wireless N (the one with the cable that runs up to the funny looking antenna) and it cannot be next to the Sound Blaster Card or else it won't work. So I switched to on board audio and disabled the sound card, and it still locks up.
My thought is that it is the old ATA 133 hard drive just giving up the ghost slowly but surely. I would just say forget it and take it out but it has the windows on there and not on the 500 GB harddrive. And there are too many other things that are making me think it is something else. The Wireless card having troubles running next to another PCI card is a first.
