Computer advice needed

[Deviant Esq]

Have just found out from the shop that it's the motherboard gone bye bye. Unfortunately, it's a socket-939 board, which isn't made any more... so I need a new motherboard, new CPU, and new RAM. My HDDs are both SATA so they're fine, and my graphics card is PCI-E, so that's fine too. Anyway, they quoted me about $350 for a new board and processor (4200+ AMD dual core, 64bit), 2GB of RAM, and all installed in my case with my existing bits. Thoughts? Well, apart from "fuck, that sucks " - I'm already thinking that!

[CookMySock]

can anyone do this guy a better price ? checking around my contacts now..

DB

[Deviant Esq]

can anyone do this guy a better price ? checking around my contacts now..

Thanks for the effort DB, appreciate it, but I'm just going to take it on the chin and get it done. At least with the shop installing all the hardware I know it'll be done properly (a friend installed it last time and badly messed it up), and I'll have the paper trail to go back to them if something else happens. Sure, it's only an AMD processor (4200+ dual core 64bit), but the cheapest Intel options were quite a lot more expensive and I can't afford them. Plus they've already got all the bits and have been good - they waived the diagnosis cost of finding that the motherboard was dead (thank goodness for that). I'm putting more RAM in it while they're there, will have 2GB now

On an entirely unrelated matter... ... I'll now have an AMD 3200+ 64bit CPU (to fit a socket-939 motherboard), and 2x 512MB sticks of DDR RAM for sale, if someone's interested.

[CookMySock]

I'm just going to take it on the chin and get it done. At least with the shop installing all the hardware I know it'll be done properly

Yer I know wot ur saying dood. At least you are on the road to recovery..

cheers,
DB

[Spuds1234]

On an entirely unrelated matter... ... I'll now have an AMD 3200+ 64bit CPU (to fit a socket-939 motherboard), and 2x 512MB sticks of DDR RAM for sale, if someone's interested.

Dibbs on ram if its pc3200/ddr400 and at a competitive price.

[scracha]

Dibbs on ram if its pc3200/ddr400 and at a competitive price.

You'll struggle flogging CPU, they hardly ever @#$ck up. Go for the Core 2 Duo, a much better processor (I'm not tryign to start an AMDvs Intel war...I like AMD) .

DDR400ram... a 512 stick is about 34 bucks brand new so you should get 25 each.

[Spuds1234]

I can get you one of these for around $60

GA-K8NSC-939

Its second hand of course but should work fine with your current gear.

If it was me, I'd buy a cheap motherboard and get the shop to install all your old parts for you.

[Deviant Esq]

Go for the Core 2 Duo, a much better processor.

I would if the price wasn't an issue - but it is. The cost of the AMD processor is much more affordable, and I really can't afford to spend much more than they quoted me. So, while I'd quite like a Core 2 Duo... it'll be the AMD 4200+ 64bit dual core, at least for the mean time. It's still quite enough for my needs

Dibbs on ram if its pc3200/ddr400 and at a competitive price.

No problem man, dibs on the RAM are yours. I'll have to check what it is when I get it back (hopefully Monday?), but I'm fairly sure it's DDR400.

I can get you one of these for around $60

GA-K8NSC-939

Its second hand of course but should work fine with your current gear.

If it was me, I'd buy a cheap motherboard and get the shop to install all your old parts for you.

The thought has crossed my mind. But, as I mentioned a couple of posts up, I'm going to take it on the chin and get the new stuff. At least then it's supported by the manufacturer's warranty, and installed by the shop, there'll be a warranty on their work as well. Sure, it costs me a bit more dosh, but I get a much better processor and RAM, as well as the warranty.

Maybe you should get the board yourself, so you can use my 3200+ CPU? Naturally it'll be at a good price.

[Spuds1234]

I would, but it wouldnt be much of an upgrade. If I was using a much lesser computer I would jump at the oppunity.

[Deviant Esq]

*Dredge*

First, let me begin with fuckfuckfuckFUCK!!! Right, now that I've got that out of my system... this fucking thing still isn't right. I've spent hundreds which really could have gone to a new and problem free PC, but NO, can't have THAT say the powers that be...

Anyway, I've now got a new motherboard (Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3, nVidia 560 chipset, AM2 board), along with a new CPU and RAM. Got it home last night, formatted the HDD and started with a fresh install of Win XP Pro (legitimate copy). Nothing but fucking trouble. Installed SP2. Installed the mobo drivers and graphics card drivers.

Firstly, the computer doesn't think any of the USB ports are USB 2.0, rather, that they're all 1.1. SP2 is supposed to take care of this, so, what the flying fuck. But that's not all. I've got a flash card reader that sits in the front of my case in a 3.5" bay. The whole time Windoze is running, this is dropping off and coming back on constantly. Windoze seems always trying to install the software for this, and indeed any other USB volume I try to plug in, and so other programs freeze quite regularly (causing the This program is not responding dialog to appear). I've tried visiting the Gigabyte website, downloaded the chipset drivers for the board, thinking they might be different from those on the CD, and installed them, to no avail, it still doesn't bloody work!

I'm seriously out of patience. It's been a good couple of weeks, it's been back and forth from the shop at least 4 times and several hundred dollars has been thrown at it, but they still can't get the fucking thing right! But it had better bloody work when I've gone to all this expense to get a new board, CPU, and RAM, since I can't afford to buy a whole new computer and waste all this money spent on new bits which should be perfectly serviceable.

[homer]

Does the new power supply have enough power/watts to drive all your devices?

thats my first thought
its the part that got changed
its probably a light weight thing thats only got 200 watts of power to offer
if its a heavy weighty trans itll be most likely something else

[Deviant Esq]

its probably a light weight thing thats only got 200 watts of power to offer

It's a 620W power supply, so yep, it's got enough power to run everything else.

[CookMySock]

cough, a-HEM, download an Ubuntu CD, boot it, and ask dmesg. All will be revealed.

DB

[Deviant Esq]

cough, a-HEM, download an Ubuntu CD, boot it, and ask dmesg. All will be revealed.

DB

dmesg eh...

Alright. If the shop comes back to me and says there's nothing wrong with it (yeah, bullshit), which I expect they will, I'll give that a crack.

[Strider]

Dont sound like the clowns at the shop know what they are Frigin doing, except taking your money and LOL all the way to the bank. In future you better of taking your busness else where.