Badness :(

Post by **deject** » August 1st, 2007, 16:04

I think your dead PSU very likely could have killed your CPU. If it's not beeping at you even with no RAM, you definitely need to try another CPU in it.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 1st, 2007, 17:50

Progress!!

I took the MOBO out the case to remove the CPU, though I'd give a go powering up again in case it was a short, lo and behold, with just the CPU I get some beeps, so in goes 1 mem stick, more beeps!, woo, with GFX card it beeped a sweet sweet tune of 1 single beep, I think the BIOS is corrupt though as I get a CMOS error when trying to boot and it says it's going with default BIOS settings.

t also gave a CPU fan speed warning after the CMOS error but when I look in the bios it reads the CPU fan speed as normal, some slightly weird things going on but I'll flash the bios to see if that helps

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 1st, 2007, 18:05

Weird, could just be a shorting issue. did you make any changes to your machine before this started?

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 1st, 2007, 18:12

Come on, tell the truth. You found jam didn't you?

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 1st, 2007, 19:28

no changes, except PSU exploding!

After new PSU went in it wouldn't POST, now that I've had everything out, back in and reflashed BIOS it seems back to normal

I did have an issue with the mobo shorting before so I suspect it's related, weird that the mobo light would come on and all mobo connected fans would spin but it wouldn't post.

Maybe I dislodged a bit of hidden jam when I took it all out!

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 1st, 2007, 21:28

Hurrah! Glad it's pretty much sorted then.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 1st, 2007, 21:32

mrbobbins wrote:I did have an issue with the mobo shorting before so I suspect it's related, weird that the mobo light would come on and all mobo connected fans would spin but it wouldn't post.

Sounds likely, double check your standoffs and such.

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 1st, 2007, 22:13

Not jam, standoff or screw possibly got loose. Could be that some tiny ic or transistor has gone wrong though, not enough to kill, but enough to fuck it up a bit.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » August 1st, 2007, 22:26

At least yours is show stopping bobbins, mine's giving me the absolute motherfucking rage with the drop outs.

I suspect heat is a problem, looks like my Audigy cannot take it sitting right under the gfx card, but I have nowhere else to put it.

Antec P180 case is Fail. It's EPIC FAIL when coupled with a non modular power supply.

I don't know whether to dremel the fucking thing so I can move the cables coming up from the bottom, or just buy a new case and psu. I'm thinking of the latter.

Post by **Grimmie** » August 1st, 2007, 23:07

Bobbins operational now?

eion · Post by **eion** » August 2nd, 2007, 4:47

buzzmong wrote:I suspect heat is a problem, looks like my Audigy cannot take it sitting right under the gfx card, but I have nowhere else to put it.

I very much doubt that's the problem. I have an Audigy in my Shuttle, you see - sandwiched between an overclocked 7800GS (not a particularly cold-running card) and an overclocked P4 Prescott and the heatpipes for the Shuttle cooling system. If Audigies were prone to suffering from heat exhaustion, mine would have.

buzzmong wrote:Antec P180 case is Fail. It's EPIC FAIL when coupled with a non modular power supply.

Personally I rather like it, although the machine I built in one (for a friend) isn't particularly crammed full of stuff. You just need to think about cable organisation, I reckon. Now Antec PSUs are a different kettle of fish; some of them are EPIC FAIL.

Also, are you sure it's heat that's causing your (computer-related) problems? Have you checked your voltages and stuff too?

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 2nd, 2007, 9:27

Grimmie wrote:Bobbins operational now?

About 75%

The remaining 25% being my wireless card and therefore internets, hope to fix tonight

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » August 2nd, 2007, 10:46

eion wrote: Also, are you sure it's heat that's causing your (computer-related) problems? Have you checked your voltages and stuff too?

I'm suspecting heat. ATi cards arnt that forgiving and with the soundcard stuck under it, airflow wasn't great around the cards.

It's definatly a driver issue when interfacing with hardware, BSOD is a Bad_Pool_Caller, and my error codes point to that.

Although do I recall seeing IRQ issues before I removed my PSU from the case and managed to squeeze my audigy into a different pci slot.

Currently EVERYTHING will get a test, barring the memory, as I ran memtest on it the moment it was ready for first boot.

And cable management? Pfft, that dinky slot in the bottom of the case is a fucking pain, might remove the plastic crap and dremal it out so I've got more room.