Any suggestions, please? -UPDATE - BUT NO JOY -- RESOLVED....WELL SORT OF......

[Basil Chupin]

On 17/10/2010 16:00, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 19/09/2010 03:56, Ric Moore wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 08:14 -0700, Li Li wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 00:28 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>>>> I bought a pre-loved ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo and, using the existing PSU
>>>> (which many people, including myself, thought was the culprit) and all
>>>> the other bits, the ASUS boots.
>>>>
>>>> This is the good part.
>>>>
>>>> The bad part is that I cannot get the whole sheebang to actually work
>>>> properly.
>>>>
>>>> The CPU I have, Athlon XP 3200+ which should be showing as pounding away
>>>> at 2200MHz is showing up as a 1100MHz CPU
>>>>
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>> I have the same problem. I'd love to hear of a resolution. But, mine
>> will boot from a CD, as I do have my CD set as the first in line to boot
>> from. Have you checked that?? Ric
>>
>>      
>
> Cannot help out at this point (nor at any point I think :-( ) because
> that ASUS mobo seems to have given up the ghost - or if it hasn't I am
> not wasting any more time on it. I've been at this for some 4 weeks now
> and I *think* I have found the problem which started all this fooling
> around. See another post a bit later.
>
> BC
>    

When I thought about it, I concluded that I could have answered what I 
wanted to say in the above post instead of using another one because 
when I looked at my original post, which started this thread, and 
subsequent ones, what I am about to state just does not compute nor seem 
logical.

Nevertheless, it is true......

I've spent 4 weeks on this damn mess; I've bought a new used mobo to 
replace the original one which I thought was "zapped" (it may be 
afterall, dunno - just cannot face redoing everything at the moment to 
test this....); I've changed power supplies; I've done loop de loops......

Anyway, to cut a short answer long, (but this does not gel with my 
opening post!) I ended up putting my slow, old, backup system into the 
Antec case which contained by original (failed) system. I transferred it 
yesterday with the psu, the modo, the lot...... and non of it would 
work! The whole sheebang was DEAD!

Spent the evening reading RED MARS, had several bottles of wine (maybe 
more....can't recall), cried a bit on the pretzels, went to bed..... 
Woke up in the middle of the night - and concluded that there is 
something wrong with the *power switch* on the Antec case.

After I got up and found the cleanest dirty shirt, I tested the switch 
with the multimeter. No sign of life. So I sprayed the switch with CRC 
2-26 - and everything started to work: to whirr and spin and grind, 
except for the video card fan[1].

But now I have 2x 120mm and an 80mm fans spinning at full speed 'cause 
the psu can't control them like the original (Antec 550watt) psu could - 
it all sounds like the Red Baron is revving up for a take-off! :-) . But 
I can get mail, I can post, I can browse.... What else is there in life?

[1] In another thread - I think it's in the offtopic list - I mentioned 
that I used to lubricate fans with molybdenum past. Well this one was, 
but what I discovered is that the paste had hardened (?from heat) and 
the fan would not spin. I had to take it apart, clean it and lubricate it.

BC

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