FiSSion159
FiSSion
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- 24 Aug 2008
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Hi I've been using the advice in this forum for a while but now I have a problem of my own so I decided to reg and ask.
Question is:
I just busted out an old Gateway case I've had in storage to try to make an extra PC for use in our basement. This thing still had the original motherboard, CPU, video card, and floppy drive in it, so I figured all I had to do was put one of my old IDE hard drives, a DVD drive, a sound card, and a new power supply in it.
Well, once I did and hit the switch, nothing happened. The fans wont turn on, the processor fan wont turn on, hard drive doesn't activate, and there's no POST beep. The only thing that DOES happen is the little green light on the power switch on front of case lights up, and wont turn off even if I hold the switch down (the only way I got it to turn off was to flip the switch on back of power supply).
Does anybody have any ideas what could be my problem?
Specs of stuff I have plugged in:
MB: Microstar MS-6330 ver2.1
CPU: not sure but its what came with above stated MB from Gateway
RAM: 1 stick OEM DIMM 256MB PC100 168pin,
2 sticks Toshiba THMY6416H1EG-80 16mbx64 SDRAM PC100
Video: nVidia Riva TNT2 (AGP 1X, 2X and 4X) PN: 6001674
Sound: Sound Blaster Live model CT4830
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB UltraATA model ST3120026A
Power Supply: Comp USA 300W ATX PSU SKU: 283769 model no. ISO-300
DVD Drives: 1 MSI DVD-rom, 1 CyberHome DVD-rom I pulled from old PCs
edit: forgot I also have an ethernet adapter plugged into one of the PCI slots (but I pulled it and tried again and still didn't make any difference, plus I pulled all the cards (video, audio, ethernet) and it still wouldn't turn on.
if anyone has any help to offer it would be appreciated!
Thanks
Question is:
I just busted out an old Gateway case I've had in storage to try to make an extra PC for use in our basement. This thing still had the original motherboard, CPU, video card, and floppy drive in it, so I figured all I had to do was put one of my old IDE hard drives, a DVD drive, a sound card, and a new power supply in it.
Well, once I did and hit the switch, nothing happened. The fans wont turn on, the processor fan wont turn on, hard drive doesn't activate, and there's no POST beep. The only thing that DOES happen is the little green light on the power switch on front of case lights up, and wont turn off even if I hold the switch down (the only way I got it to turn off was to flip the switch on back of power supply).
Does anybody have any ideas what could be my problem?
Specs of stuff I have plugged in:
MB: Microstar MS-6330 ver2.1
CPU: not sure but its what came with above stated MB from Gateway
RAM: 1 stick OEM DIMM 256MB PC100 168pin,
2 sticks Toshiba THMY6416H1EG-80 16mbx64 SDRAM PC100
Video: nVidia Riva TNT2 (AGP 1X, 2X and 4X) PN: 6001674
Sound: Sound Blaster Live model CT4830
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB UltraATA model ST3120026A
Power Supply: Comp USA 300W ATX PSU SKU: 283769 model no. ISO-300
DVD Drives: 1 MSI DVD-rom, 1 CyberHome DVD-rom I pulled from old PCs
edit: forgot I also have an ethernet adapter plugged into one of the PCI slots (but I pulled it and tried again and still didn't make any difference, plus I pulled all the cards (video, audio, ethernet) and it still wouldn't turn on.
if anyone has any help to offer it would be appreciated!
Thanks
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