PC Help

[schi0249]

I was experiencing some very intermittent system crashes, resulting in a reboot. I popped open my case and noticed my chipset fan was dead. I swapped out the fan, and now I get nothing. I have removed all cards, cables, and memory. The only thing plugged in the my CPU (an Athlon XP 2800+). I get no beep tones. The CPU fan does power up. I was thinking the system board is probably dead. What do you pros think? My board is a Socket A nForce 2 from Gigabyte.

If so, I am going to need to replace it. I was checking out New Egg; what would you all recommend? Thanks for the help.

 

[mal]

It does sound like it's dead.

I've recently had my nForce2 board go a bit weird as well and I'm taking that as a sign that it's time to upgrade to an AMD64 - albeit to a motherboard with AGP rather than PCI-E.

 

[schi0249]

So I my system board is toast. I have limited funds, so I am only replacing that. I have narrowed it done to the following board. Any reccomendations/info would be greatly appreciated.

* ASUS A7N8X-E DX

* MSI K7N2 Delta2 FSR

* Albatron KX18DS Pro 2

* ABIT AN7

* ABIT KW7

* ABIT NF7-S2

 

[it290]

I don't have personal experience with any of those boards except for the A7N8X, which I have found to be an all around stable and solid board. Brand-wise, I would stay away from Albatron, as I have had problems with their products in the past, but the others are all good. I am using an MSI board (K7S5A) currently and it is one of the best and most stable boards I have used. MSI doesn't cater to overclockers though, so if you want those options, look elsewhere.

 

[lordofduct]

my body has the Asus A7N8X... good board, nice tweaking and OC capabilities on it.

 

[it290]

Damn lord, I always thought you were a bit robotic, but never to that degree!

 

[lordofduct]

oh dear... did I really say body?

I should learn another language just so I can pretend I actually don't speak english and that would explain the dumb shit I've said in the last 3 years I've been here.

I meant buddy

 

[slinga]

You should of played it off like you meant to say body and that's wha tall the cool kids down South call their case.

 

[lordofduct]

down south computer geeks aren't cool.... they are shunned

And when I've posted my computer is a 600 mhz P3 with a geforce ti4200 a few times before, people could easily call me out.

well I have another comp... but it still is a P4; not an athlon