Boy do I need some help!

[PC By Design]

I need some help. I am building my first pc and have run into some problems.
So with that in mind, I would like to pose a few questions:
1: How do I set the jumpers. I know where they are, but can't figure it out.
I left them the way they shipped.

2: I am getting a "Beep" spaced every 2-3 seconds when I turn it on. I
checked all my connections and they are secure.

3: I haven't installed the OS yet. Dumb question but is that a problem? I
put the winxp disc in the drive and turned it on. Just got the beep noise. I
tried starting it with a WIN NT startup floppy but that didn't work either.

4: Oh yeah, did I mention I thought the problem was with the floppy because
the light stayed on when I powered up? I learned that if you disconnedt the
floppy from the mother board, but not the power supply, you will creat
intense smoke and fire!!!!!!!!! I had to get a new power supply. I probably
need a new floppy drive too right? I did connect it all back when I put in
the new power supply but I didn't get a light or noise from the floppy.

I have plenty more questions, but I will waitfor some help on these.
Thanks all!

Dave

 

[Sal Monella]

I need some help. I am building my first pc and have run into some problems.
So with that in mind, I would like to pose a few questions:
1: How do I set the jumpers. I know where they are, but can't figure it out.
I left them the way they shipped.

Didn't you get a manual with the motherboard? If not you can probably
download one from the manufacturer's website.

2: I am getting a "Beep" spaced every 2-3 seconds when I turn it on. I
checked all my connections and they are secure.

It's telling you there is a problem. Hard to say what exactly. Look up
the beep code in the manual.

3: I haven't installed the OS yet. Dumb question but is that a problem? I
put the winxp disc in the drive and turned it on. Just got the beep noise. I
tried starting it with a WIN NT startup floppy but that didn't work either.

You're not far enough for an OS yet.

4: Oh yeah, did I mention I thought the problem was with the floppy because
the light stayed on when I powered up? I learned that if you disconnedt the
floppy from the mother board, but not the power supply, you will creat
intense smoke and fire!!!!!!!!!

Ummm, no you won't. Something other than just having the floppy plugged
in caused that.

 

[John and Pat]

http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/

Start at that site. Hmm...I cannot ever remember a floppy causing a PS to
blow by simply disconnecting the ribbon cable. I suspect other problems. You
did not reverse the power plug to the floppy did you?

Regards,
John O.

 

[Richard Kawamura]

This is not the way to learn about building computers. Do more research or
this can become very expensive.

Richard

 

[ToolPackinMama]

This is not the way to learn about building computers. Do more research or
this can become very expensive.

It's worse than that: the guy could electrocute himself.

 

[ToolPackinMama]

4: Oh yeah, did I mention I thought the problem was with the floppy because
the light stayed on when I powered up? I learned that if you disconnedt the
floppy from the mother board, but not the power supply, you will creat
intense smoke and fire!!!!!!!!!

My GOD did you try that with the computer turned on? STOP EVERYTHING.
Just stop, before you kill yourself.

 

[JAD]

Smoke and fire from the ribbon cable being this way or that while
plugged or unplugged is Highly unlikely. Wrongly connected power could
indeed.
Begin by removing all hardware except PSU CPU 1 stick of memory and
video card.
However smoking the PSU with everything attached is not a good thing.

 

[Matt]

4: Oh yeah, did I mention I thought the problem was with the floppy because
the light stayed on when I powered up? I learned that if you disconnedt the
floppy from the mother board, but not the power supply, you will creat
intense smoke and fire!!!!!!!!! I had to get a new power supply. I probably
need a new floppy drive too right? I did connect it all back when I put in
the new power supply but I didn't get a light or noise from the floppy.

Plugging the data cable in backwards can do that. The sysadmin in my
office did that once, but that was in '96 or so. Floppies and their
data cables are keyed nowadays, so you can't plug them backwards. How
old are your floppy and floppy cable?

 

[PC By Design]

Thanks to everyone for all their help. I definitely SHOLD have read a bit
more before I tried to slap a bunch of components together and call it a
computer. BUT...I have it working! I finally figurred out the jumpers. I
just couldn't see what to do with them they are soooooooooo small! Now I
know. The floppy is fried. But that is it. Everything else works like a
dream. Now I have a nice AMD Atholon XP2000, 512 DDR, 40GB HD, 52x CD Burner
and a Radeon 9000 AGP video card and they all run nice and smooth! Just have
to buy a new floppy! DOH! (Wife wasn't too happy about having to spend
extra $$$ on a new power supply ans floppy! LOL)

 

[sdeyoreo]

Hey, ya learn by doing, right?

Thanks to everyone for all their help. I definitely SHOLD have read a bit
more before I tried to slap a bunch of components together and call it a
computer. BUT...I have it working! I finally figurred out the jumpers. I
just couldn't see what to do with them they are soooooooooo small! Now I
know. The floppy is fried. But that is it. Everything else works like a
dream. Now I have a nice AMD Atholon XP2000, 512 DDR, 40GB HD, 52x CD Burner
and a Radeon 9000 AGP video card and they all run nice and smooth! Just have
to buy a new floppy! DOH! (Wife wasn't too happy about having to spend
extra $$$ on a new power supply ans floppy! LOL)