MotherBoard Question

[Audio_scifi]

I tryed to explain to the tech support that there was something wrong with
my Motherboard but they won't listen, so what are my options?
My PC won't recognize my SATA card so they told me to buy another one, and
since they didn't have any, I got one on-line, That one dosen't work either,
So I tryed to installed my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum card to see if it was the
PCI slots,,it took 30 mins to install, it usually take 5 mins. Now my system
is real unstable, and it takes 5 mins just to boot up, Is there something
wrong with the PCI slots in the board, or something else?
I removed all my PCI cards and my system seems to run ok, But I sure would
like my SATA drives back.
Thanks for any Ideas.

Mr. J. Tyler

ABS Awesome 3300
Aspire Full Tower Case w/ Side Panel Window and 420W PS (Blue)
AMD Athlon XP 2600+/333 FSB 512K Barton
Fortron Source AMD CPU cooler
2 of Geil Value Series 512MB PC-3200 DDR-400 184-Pin
XP Home sp-1
W.D. 200g 7200 rpm HD
W.D. 80g 7200 rpm HD
W.D. 37g 10,000 rpm Raptor SATA HD
Samsung 160g SATA HD
19" SamSung - SyncMaster 955DF
Logitech MX70 rechargable Optical Mouse
- Gigabyte GA-7N400-L nForce2 Ultra400 Dual Channel DDR
- Albatron GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR DVI/TV-out
- Leadtek "EXPERT" PCI TV/FM Tuner Card with Remote
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 24-bit Plat.Pro. &
Logitech Z-680 5.1 Surround Speaker System

 

[Jim Macklin]

You gave a complete inventory of the computer, except the
make and model of the mobo.
A quick look at the specs don't say what mobo was used by
ABS, you didn't say about the mobo or the SATA card, but I
do see that you have listed a lot of devices for the mobo to
support, have you looked at the IRQ list and the BIOS to see
what you can see.

Do you need two types of RAM and two graphics cards with TV?

And 4 hard drives??

| I tryed to explain to the tech support that there was
something wrong with
| my Motherboard but they won't listen, so what are my
options?
| My PC won't recognize my SATA card so they told me to buy
another one, and
| since they didn't have any, I got one on-line, That one
dosen't work either,
| So I tryed to installed my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum card to
see if it was the
| PCI slots,,it took 30 mins to install, it usually take 5
mins. Now my system
| is real unstable, and it takes 5 mins just to boot up,
Is there something
| wrong with the PCI slots in the board, or something else?
| I removed all my PCI cards and my system seems to run ok,
But I sure would
| like my SATA drives back.
| Thanks for any Ideas.
|
| Mr. J. Tyler
|
| ABS Awesome 3300
| Aspire Full Tower Case w/ Side Panel Window and 420W PS
(Blue)
| AMD Athlon XP 2600+/333 FSB 512K Barton
| Fortron Source AMD CPU cooler
| 2 of Geil Value Series 512MB PC-3200 DDR-400 184-Pin
| XP Home sp-1
| W.D. 200g 7200 rpm HD
| W.D. 80g 7200 rpm HD
| W.D. 37g 10,000 rpm Raptor SATA HD
| Samsung 160g SATA HD
| 19" SamSung - SyncMaster 955DF
| Logitech MX70 rechargable Optical Mouse
| - Gigabyte GA-7N400-L nForce2 Ultra400 Dual Channel DDR
| - Albatron GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR DVI/TV-out
| - Leadtek "EXPERT" PCI TV/FM Tuner Card with Remote
| - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 24-bit Plat.Pro.
&
| Logitech Z-680 5.1 Surround Speaker System
|
|

 

[Audio_scifi]

Everything is listed Jim if you know what your looking for, I just have a
Generic SATA card, But it works fine, I tryed it in my other PC, Since I
wrote this yesterday 2 of my back USB ports have quit working also, and as
far as the BIO's, I wouldn't know what to look for. I know the boot sequence
is correct, but thats is...

You gave a complete inventory of the computer, except the
make and model of the mobo.
A quick look at the specs don't say what mobo was used by
ABS, you didn't say about the mobo or the SATA card, but I
do see that you have listed a lot of devices for the mobo to
support, have you looked at the IRQ list and the BIOS to see
what you can see.

Do you need two types of RAM and two graphics cards with TV?

And 4 hard drives??

| I tryed to explain to the tech support that there was
something wrong with
| my Motherboard but they won't listen, so what are my
options?
| My PC won't recognize my SATA card so they told me to buy
another one, and
| since they didn't have any, I got one on-line, That one
dosen't work either,
| So I tryed to installed my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum card to
see if it was the
| PCI slots,,it took 30 mins to install, it usually take 5
mins. Now my system
| is real unstable, and it takes 5 mins just to boot up,
Is there something
| wrong with the PCI slots in the board, or something else?
| I removed all my PCI cards and my system seems to run ok,
But I sure would
| like my SATA drives back.
| Thanks for any Ideas.
|
| Mr. J. Tyler
|
| ABS Awesome 3300
| Aspire Full Tower Case w/ Side Panel Window and 420W PS
(Blue)
| AMD Athlon XP 2600+/333 FSB 512K Barton
| Fortron Source AMD CPU cooler
| 2 of Geil Value Series 512MB PC-3200 DDR-400 184-Pin <------ 1 gig of ram
| XP Home sp-1
| W.D. 200g 7200 rpm HD

,--------------------------------------------Back-Up drive

| W.D. 80g 7200 rpm HD <--------------------------------------------- Photo Editing drive
| W.D. 37g 10,000 rpm Raptor SATA HD <-----------------------------O/S drive
| Samsung 160g SATA HD <--------------------------------------------- Music Drive
| 19" SamSung - SyncMaster 955DF
| Logitech MX70 rechargable Optical Mouse
| - Gigabyte GA-7N400-L nForce2 Ultra400 Dual Channel DDR <------------Motherboard
| - Albatron GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR DVI/TV-out <-------------------Video Card
| - Leadtek "EXPERT" PCI TV/FM Tuner Card with Remote < ----------------TV-in card
| - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 24-bit Plat.Pro.

<-----------------Sound Card

 

[Jim Macklin]

You have a lot of add-in cards and drives. I suspect that
you are having problems with IRQ assignment or sharing. And
you could have some damage to the motherboard, no way to
tell without troubleshooting.
Get EVEREST from www.lavalys.com and use it to scan your
system. You can also run an on-line scan from
www.pcpitstop.com
EVEREST will report on just about everything you need to
know about your computer, it reports data from motherboard
to software. You may not understand it all, but it will let
you answer some questions.


--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.


| Everything is listed Jim if you know what your looking
for, I just have a
| Generic SATA card, But it works fine, I tryed it in my
other PC, Since I
| wrote this yesterday 2 of my back USB ports have quit
working also, and as
| far as the BIO's, I wouldn't know what to look for. I know
the boot sequence
| is correct, but thats is...
|
in message
| | > You gave a complete inventory of the computer, except
the
| > make and model of the mobo.
| > A quick look at the specs don't say what mobo was used
by
| > ABS, you didn't say about the mobo or the SATA card, but
I
| > do see that you have listed a lot of devices for the
mobo to
| > support, have you looked at the IRQ list and the BIOS to
see
| > what you can see.
| >
| > Do you need two types of RAM and two graphics cards with
TV?
| >
| > And 4 hard drives??
| >
| > | > | I tryed to explain to the tech support that there was
| > something wrong with
| > | my Motherboard but they won't listen, so what are my
| > options?
| > | My PC won't recognize my SATA card so they told me to
buy
| > another one, and
| > | since they didn't have any, I got one on-line, That
one
| > dosen't work either,
| > | So I tryed to installed my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum card
to
| > see if it was the
| > | PCI slots,,it took 30 mins to install, it usually take
5
| > mins. Now my system
| > | is real unstable, and it takes 5 mins just to boot up,
| > Is there something
| > | wrong with the PCI slots in the board, or something
else?
| > | I removed all my PCI cards and my system seems to run
ok,
| > But I sure would
| > | like my SATA drives back.
| > | Thanks for any Ideas.
| > |
| > | Mr. J. Tyler
| > |
| > | ABS Awesome 3300
| > | Aspire Full Tower Case w/ Side Panel Window and 420W
PS
| > (Blue)
| > | AMD Athlon XP 2600+/333 FSB 512K Barton
| > | Fortron Source AMD CPU cooler
| > | 2 of Geil Value Series 512MB PC-3200 DDR-400 184-Pin
<------ 1 gig of
| ram
| > | XP Home sp-1
| > | W.D. 200g 7200 rpm HD
| ,--------------------------------------------Back-Up drive
| > | W.D. 80g 7200 rpm HD
<---------------------------------------------
| Photo Editing drive
| > | W.D. 37g 10,000 rpm Raptor SATA HD
<-----------------------------O/S
| drive
| > | Samsung 160g SATA HD
<---------------------------------------------
| Music Drive
| > | 19" SamSung - SyncMaster 955DF
| > | Logitech MX70 rechargable Optical Mouse
| > | - Gigabyte GA-7N400-L nForce2 Ultra400 Dual Channel
DDR
| <------------Motherboard
| > | - Albatron GeForce FX 5200 128MB DDR DVI/TV-out
| <-------------------Video Card
| > | - Leadtek "EXPERT" PCI TV/FM Tuner Card with Remote
| < ----------------TV-in card
| > | - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 24-bit
Plat.Pro.
| <-----------------Sound Card
|
|
|

 

[D.Currie]

Put the cards back in one at a time, rebooting each time, to see if there's
a particular card that's the problem. Same with the slots. Try a known
working slot in each slot in sequence to see if a particular slot is having
a problem.

Take a look at the motherboard. There have been a lot of motherboards with
bad capacitors. They're easy to see; good ones are flat on top, bad one are
bulging and/or leaking.

As far as whether the PCI slots are bad or whether it's something else, it
doesn't really matter. If the board is bad, the board is bad. It's not like
you're going to be able to fix it, you just replace it.