Computer nogs need some help
 

Ok someone asked me to take a look at their computer as it wasn't working. I say no problem since it's usually something simple. Try to cut it on notta. Doesn't come on at all. So my first thought is to check the plug, surge protector, and power cable. All checked/swapped and still nothing. So next thought is it's the power supply.

I pull out the internals and swap the mother board over to my PC case. When I flip the main breaker switch on the back of my power supply on the CPU fan kicks on and it starts beeping, but doesn't boot/nothing comes on monitor.

I can't figure out what it would be. I put my stuff back in and checked the other components and everything else worked fine except one stick of ram. It made my computer constantly reboot when that one stick was plugged in, but the other three work fine. Any ideas?

Oh and this is the computer:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...453999&lang=en

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...453999&lang=en

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corrupt bios or even a dead mobo battery will do this. are all the mobo leds/switches plugged into the main header? i had that problem with my old case, the leads were short and if i was inside pokin around to reset bios from a buggy overclock it would wiggle one of the wires loose and not boot. it's possible they were poking around with jumpers on the motherboard, or even fried the mobo itself

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Damn I hope not...kinda. Thing is if it's messed up I probably get to rape it. The cpu will fit my mobo, I have the 64 bit single core of the same processor. This thing was a BITCH to work on. It was so crowded and cramped in there.

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Count the beeps. In the manual for the motherboard you should be able to find error codes for them.

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are you getting the bios 'okay to load' single beep, or multiple beeps? being that it's a manufacturers board (hp, dell, etc) i don't know if you can even access bios or the stages of death beeps (hp is great for that)

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You know Jorsher and ask us?

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Wait.

Are you saying it boots fine with all but one stick of ram?

I skimmed over it and don't feel like trying to figure out what you are saying, but if that's your case...

Have you tried it with your psu without that one stick of ram?

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different ram speeds with the higher in the first slot caused me the same issue now that i am sober and reading the thead again. your core ram speed and latency play a big role in whether or not ram is compatible in certain systems, my asus mobo's are rock solid on everything, but the ecs and msi boards i've had spit out ram like a negro with a bucket of watermelon seeds

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I'm thoroughly enjoying my Gigabyte mobo.

Had an Asus before, it was quality.

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asus has a bit of a solid reputation on their boards, mainly the 12 out of 10 stars their topend boards get, balance out the lower end ones that fail at OCing more than kiddy steps and lack many good OC functions, or have narrow 1-3 option ranges for voltages

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Meh, I don't know, I never used Gigabyte before this one, but I love it.

I can change so many different voltages, most of which I don't know what the hell they are. Vcore increments is a nice 0.0125v. I can put ram with different speeds in and still use it. I can't think of a single setting that's not changeable. Backup BIOS, blah blah too much crap. And none of the Asus boards had near the features for the price.

I have my Q6600 oc'ed from 2.4ghz to 3.6ghz with it, so it seems to handle overclocking well :6

Asus boards are good, though. I'm just going to stick with Gigabyte for a while until they give me a reason not to.

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mind sharing your settings? ;D

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9 x 400mhz
1.4625v

And I had to play with some of the other options, forgot which ones.

Really doesn't matter because every processor will act different. Could only get my friend's to 3.2ghz.

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If they could all be pushed to higher numbers, they would do it from the factory. I think 3.2ghz is a safe bet on all systems though.

For 3.2ghz I'd go:
8 x 400mhz
1.45v

Then I'd do Prime95 stress test overnight. If it's still running in the morning, then drop the voltage an increment or two and do it again, until it crashes, then bump it back up.

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Well screwed around with it it it had a bad power supply, bad 1gb stick of ram, bad mobo battery, and it comes with vista which was acting screwy. It wouldn't recognize a mouse or keyboard. So slapped my hdd in it with other parts from my computer and it runs good. Downloading Win 7 to try to load on it so it won't have gay ass vista. Hopefully he won't want it. Decent upgrade for me. I put my video card in it because the one in it only has a dvi and svideo output. My current setup:

1gb ram, 250gb hdd

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103633

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130050

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121544

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Hard to believe that was only what...2-3 years ago? Don't even sell the parts anymore.

Ram and harddrives are cheap. Upgrade.

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get an athlon x2 since you have the socket.

you can swap am2 and am2+ back and forth but you cannot utilize the larger cache or some ---- that am2+ mobos support