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Motherboard or processor?
Here's my dilemma. My computer is not recognizing amy of
the drives. I know it's not the hard drive. the ram or the power supply so it has to be either the motherboard or the processer. Unfortunately I brain dead when it comes to motherboards. So I brought it to a computer repair place to find out. The guy calls me and confirms that it is indeed one or the other. So I ask him if the processer is integrated with the board or interchangable. So he says it's interchangable but if it's the motherboard chances are it'll just blow out any new processer that we put in. So I asked him how do you find out which one it is? and he said you don't, you have to replace them both. It's only going to be about $300.00 and will be upgrading my processer by about 1100 Mhz. which is cool but I'm just wondering if this guy's on the level. Is there a way to find out which is the problem? Like I said I'm pretty clueless when it comes to motherboards. Heck I don't even know what a processor looks like. Any advise would be appreciated. Thank You Beau |
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"Beau" wrote in news:136b01c4ffe4
: Here's my dilemma. My computer is not recognizing amy of the drives. I know it's not the hard drive. the ram or the power supply so it has to be either the motherboard or the processer. None? Including the floppy drives ? No, wait, I read some of your previous postings on the matter. So now both green and red lights come on but your BIOS doesn't recognize the hard-drive or the CD drive? When you power up does the hard drive spin up and does the amber LED flash a little on the CD drive ? You should switch out the IDE cables with another, and if you have a multimeter, check the PS output and the drive power cable voltages. As far as the tech-guy is concerned sounds like a little white lie; normally if you're upgrading either a MB or a proc after a generation or two, you'd do both at the same time. Rick Unfortunately I brain dead when it comes to motherboards. So I brought it to a computer repair place to find out. The guy calls me and confirms that it is indeed one or the other. So I ask him if the processer is integrated with the board or interchangable. So he says it's interchangable but if it's the motherboard chances are it'll just blow out any new processer that we put in. So I asked him how do you find out which one it is? and he said you don't, you have to replace them both. It's only going to be about $300.00 and will be upgrading my processer by about 1100 Mhz. which is cool but I'm just wondering if this guy's on the level. Is there a way to find out which is the problem? Like I said I'm pretty clueless when it comes to motherboards. Heck I don't even know what a processor looks like. |
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-----Original Message----- "Beau" wrote in news:136b01c4ffe4 : Here's my dilemma. My computer is not recognizing amy of the drives. I know it's not the hard drive. the ram or the power supply so it has to be either the motherboard or the processer. None? Including the floppy drives ? No, wait, I read some of your previous postings on the matter. So now both green and red lights come on but your BIOS doesn't recognize the hard-drive or the CD drive? Correct When you power up does the hard drive spin up and does the amber LED flash a little on the CD drive ? No not at all. Both the red light and the green light stay solid and the cd rom doesn't go on or flash You should switch out the IDE cables with another, and if you have a multimeter, check the PS output and the drive power cable voltages. As far as the tech-guy is concerned sounds like a little white lie; normally if you're upgrading either a MB or a proc after a generation or two, you'd do both at the same time. Rick Unfortunately I brain dead when it comes to motherboards. So I brought it to a computer repair place to find out. The guy calls me and confirms that it is indeed one or the other. So I ask him if the processer is integrated with the board or interchangable. So he says it's interchangable but if it's the motherboard chances are it'll just blow out any new processer that we put in. So I asked him how do you find out which one it is? and he said you don't, you have to replace them both. It's only going to be about $300.00 and will be upgrading my processer by about 1100 Mhz. which is cool but I'm just wondering if this guy's on the level. Is there a way to find out which is the problem? Like I said I'm pretty clueless when it comes to motherboards. Heck I don't even know what a processor looks like. . |
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Could you adjust your newsreader/writer for 76-80 col per line? And/or use
any "Rewrap" options, thanks. If your hard-drive isn't spinning up and the light isn't flashing on the CD drive when you turn the machine on, it's (still) the power supply. Rick |
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sigh ignore the comment about column widths/rewrap... guess the CDO
hasn't improved *that* much Rick |
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-----Original Message----- Could you adjust your newsreader/writer for 76-80 col per line? And/or use any "Rewrap" options, thanks. If your hard-drive isn't spinning up and the light isn't flashing on the CD drive when you turn the machine on, it's (still) the power supply. That's what I thought so I bought a brand new one and still the same problem :-( Rick . |
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You noticed!g
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