dangme
join:2001-09-15
San Francisco, CA
1 edit | reply to Traxless
Re: Can I Build a Computer?
traxless,
I'm in the process of building my own machine. Things went well until it came time to turn it on. The lights and fan would start up, but crap out after a second or two.
I checked everything I could think of: connectors, seating of the heatsink and other components.
I was at wit's end, so I called a local repair shop.
It turned out I had bought an ancient graphics card, since like you, my graphics needs were modest. The card was so ancient, in fact, that it used an AGP socket, and stupid me, I plopped it into my PCI Express slot.
My 2 cents: check and double check that the components you buy are compatible with your system. Then, if during the build you run into problems, seek help here. If your problems persist, go to a trustworthy repair shop.
The repair shop was also able to figure out that one of the two DDR2 sticks I installed was bad. It probably would have taken me a lot of time and frustration before I was able to figure this out.
I'm on pins and needles to find out if I inflicted permanent damage on my mobo by forcing the AGP card in it. We'll find out in a little while when we put a compatible graphics card in and turn it on.
Good luck. |
