Re: Fan headers stopped working and no display - SOLVED

Posted on 2014-04-30, 06:11

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by borgie83

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Yep, I ran a quick test using the Quake 3 time demo. Ran it a few times with no crashes etc. Weird how it caused 2 fans to stop working but not the other one. Now to do some benchmarking 😀

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Re: Fan headers stopped working and no display.

Posted on 2014-04-30, 03:51

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by borgie83

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Ok, I seem to have found the issue. The slot 1 cpu wasn't seated properly. Took the 2 brackets off and gave it a push and it clipped in a touch. Booted up again and bam! Display and all fans working as they should. Thanks heaps for the tips 😀

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Re: OK...this is annoying....hmmm

Posted on 2014-04-30, 01:48

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by borgie83

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And this is why we don't remove BGA ramsinks on any card - generally speaking if they're installed by the manufacturer, they're sufficient for the card and/or there for a reason. Cards that use "all in one" cooling solutions (like the FX 5800 Ultra) can have sinks added if you're changing the …

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Re: Fan headers stopped working and no display.

Posted on 2014-04-30, 01:42

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by borgie83

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Ok, not looking good. Took everything out and put back 1 stick of the original ram and the original geforce 2 ti and still no display. Fan headers 1 and 2 also still don't work. Also tried clearing the cmos which didn't help. This is obviously a motherboard issue as the graphics card, ram and cpu …

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Re: Fan headers stopped working and no display.

Posted on 2014-04-30, 00:54

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by borgie83

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Did you swap the RAM back? Have you tried the "basic boot troubleshooting" steps where you strip it down to the CPU and add hardware until it stops being able to boot? Tried clearing the CMOS? Also you didn't happen to try booting up with the Ti 4600 with sheared off RAM did you? :dead: I will try …

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Fan headers stopped working and no display - SOLVED

Posted on 2014-04-30, 00:38

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by borgie83

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Just upgraded the ram on my SE440BX-2 board with 2 x 256mb sticks. Also changed the graphics card from a geforce 2 ti to a geforce 4 ti4600. Now the top 2 fan headers (fan1 & fan2) have stopped working. The display also stopped working. Fan3 header still works fine. Pentium 3 1ghz cpu has 2 50mm …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2014-04-29, 04:37

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by borgie83

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I just realised that the card I mentioned above has been discontinued so you may have a little trouble getting a hold of one. I also own 2 of these (below) but haven't tested them yet. Judging from all the positive reviews though, you shouldn't have an issue. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Port- …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2014-04-29, 04:32

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by borgie83

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I use this a Startech USB 2 PCI 6 port card and it works beautifully on my SE440BX-2 motherboard running windows 98 se. http://www.startech.com/Value-6-Port-USB-20-PCI-Card~PCI625USB2I The drivers are available for download from the website above. If you have any trouble using usb sticks, you can …

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Re: OK...this is annoying....hmmm

Posted on 2014-04-28, 11:49

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by borgie83

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Ok judging from all the replies I'm going to take the slap in the face, bin it and move on. In the back of my mind I had a strong feeling it was done for. Was just hoping someone had any ideas regarding repairing it. It cost me around $45 so it's not a massive loss but a loss none the less …

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Re: OK...this is annoying....hmmm

Posted on 2014-04-28, 03:33

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by borgie83

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I'm not sure if it was a design flaw but I definitely was not suggesting that. Was just strange how it just popped straight off. I've removed dozens of heatsinks before and know not to apply much force but this has never happened to me before.

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OK...this is annoying....hmmm

Posted on 2014-04-28, 01:44

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by borgie83

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As the title suggests...I'm quite annoyed! Why you ask? Maybe it's because my BFG Geforce 4 TI4600, with its beautiful blue PCB, arrived from overseas only to be out of action. No, this was not the sellers fault as he sold me an item that was tested and working fine. Made sure of that before the …

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Re: Will be available on ebay shortly.....

Posted on 2014-04-27, 14:53

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by borgie83

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Wow! Pretty cool story 😀 @vetz, Agreed. Considering that they are all new in their original plastic casing, the casing just may have kept the cartridges in tact. All depends on how many tonnes of dirt was dumped ontop of them though because they could also be little E.T Pancakes...

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Re: Motherboard stability software recommendation.

Posted on 2014-04-24, 14:20

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by borgie83

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Mau1wurf and Vetz, just noticed your replies. The rig is featured in this thread in case you guys were curious as to the hardware side of things. Only thing different is that now it's running a PNY TI4600 in place of the Voodoo 3000 and the coolermaster cooler is now in the bin. Replaced by a …

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Re: Motherboard stability software recommendation.

Posted on 2014-04-24, 14:11

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by borgie83

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Thanks, I'll download it and give it a try. I've read about Prime 95 but never used it before. Wanted to benchmark the cpu anyway (P3 1.4ghz Tully) so this may just kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Unfortunately I've never heard of any motherboard specific test software before. Just cpu and gpu …

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Motherboard stability software recommendation.

Posted on 2014-04-24, 13:50

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by borgie83

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Earlier today I replaced a few capacitors on my Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+ Socket 370 Motherboard. 1 was slightly bloated, the other just about to start leaking and the last one just to "loose" for my liking. Didn't bother replacing the rest as they all looked perfect. Plus this system was running …

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-04-23, 13:16

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by borgie83

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Imperious wrote: Thanks for letting me know about all You have tried, it does look like You are running out of options. As I said, the Vortex 2 chipset PCI cards like the Diamond MX300 may be our salvation when running SB emulation in Dos using modern motherboards. Not gonna give up hope just yet 😀 …

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Re: Help with dead motherboards

Posted on 2014-04-23, 13:10

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by borgie83

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I've read several times about people putting their retro hardware in the wash and was always under the impression that electronics and water just don't mix. Compressed air and a cloth brings filthy old hardware up like new again every time....minus the water!

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-04-23, 09:40

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by borgie83

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The Abit KT7 Raid is an older motherboard which still has an ISA slot. The older motherboards (slot 1 and S370) I've tested sb live dos emulation with work fine. The issue I was trying to work through was getting emulation working on socket 478 motherboards onwards. If I had an ISA slot on this …

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-04-22, 15:02

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by borgie83

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Disregard my pure dos/win9x question as I re-read your post again and you've already stated it was working fine in pure dos. Sorry.

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-04-22, 13:22

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by borgie83

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Hi Imperious. Yes, there were several unrequired lines in there originally but I did also try using sound blaster emulation loading the bare minimum in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys with the same results. My parallel port and serial ports were also disabled in the bios for 2 reasons. Firstly to …

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