One9tek Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Okay, so I just bought my brand spanking new Lan PartyUT nF4 Ultra (DXG), installed the cpu (amd 64 bit 3000) installed my pciexpress graphics cards, installed 2.5GB of memorry into the DIMMs, installed a 500 watt power supply, properly connected ever last thing... and then the magical moment... I power up and I get the post beep from hell... the beep (wait 2 seconds) beep (wait 2 seconds) beep (wait 2 seconds), etc without a bit of information output to the monitor. So I assumed this means that the DFI board fried my CPU for whatever reason (there fault or my misconfiguration?) (I know the CPU worked before because it functioned just fine on my ABIT system before that board FRIED!!!)- it should be noted that I didn't tweak anything and left everything at default... so here's where I may have really messed up.... There's a little red switch on the 500 watt power that can be toggled, marked '115' in one position and '230', I toggled it, booted up the system again and up in smoke went my power supply... Now for the questions.... The motherboard will still run when connected to antther power supply, all the fans on the GPUs that were installed are still spinning and seem to be functioning (not that i can know for sure being there isn't a CPU installed), the DIMMs (they were in the system when this happened), so basically, the CPU was fried from the get go, but when I toggled the power supply and made it burn and smoke, do you think it ruined any of the rest of the installed components in the system... I mean, the fans, the lights, the everything else still boots and beeps and resets and does all but load into BIOS due to the fact that there is no CPU, but what does everyone think? Is my entire system completely fried? or did my power supply just bite the dust? Next, why did any of this happen? I read the freaking manual, I read the freaking directions (SEEMINGLY CORRECTLY) and first off my CPU instantly fries, then (assuming it's not fried) i messed with the power supply settings and the power supply blew up.... so why did this happen? was anything else ruined (likely) based on anyone else's past experience? and how can I make it work (the PC w/ CPU) next time (assuming the motherboard itself isn't ruined) I set it all back up? Help, help, help, please... DFI's technical support is terrible. Unless you guys can convince me otherwise I'm never purchasing a product from them again... Pain in the butt. Anyway, thanks for any potential responding feedback. -one9tek Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidhammock200 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Please put your complete system specs in your sig, including full PSU info & we will go from there. Everything, except the PSU is probably fine. :angel: PSU Guide: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10854 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGuy Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Why does DFI's technical support suck? From what I read you put everything together and it didn't boot then you proceeded to fry your PSU on the second go round...And with your first post you ask for help...and bash DFI technical support in one fell swoop :shake: Well hopefully YOU didn't damage anything besides the PSU and with some help from the kind and knowledgeable on this forum you will get it sorted out... As David stated it will help if you put all your components in your signature... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Hello, The setting on the power supply is what caused all the damage. If you are in the USA you must use the 115v setting, your electricity that comes out the mains is ~110v. Now in the UK we have 230v so you must move the switch. If you set this wrong it can fry the PSU, and when that happens it can send out power spikes to the board. This can and will damage something. Now ignoring that the board may not have posted due to your 2.5GB, you should never mix memory modules if they are not the same. And the board works best with 2 identical modules in dual channel mode. Also you need to plug 4 power connectors into the board. 24pin 4pin floppy drive Hard drive Did you do this? And if the power supply was a cheap one it may not have been enough to power the pc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neutrino Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Well you say that your first board also fried. I presume that board was conected to the same power supply (who's the most likelly culprit in frying your first board) I would not have conected the new DFI board to same PSU. Also you are using the same CPU and memory you used on the original board that fried. How do you know they were still good, often when a board goes out in smoke it will take with it many components atached to it. So the way i see it when you got the new DFI your PSU either burned it from the get go or the memory and or CPU from the first fried board were damaged so the system could not boot up. And of course at the end you fugged up the PSU by switching to the european voltage as mentioned in Sharp's post. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
astaris Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 ... I power up and I get the post beep from hell... the beep (wait 2 seconds) beep (wait 2 seconds) beep (wait 2 seconds), etc without a bit of information output to the monitor. So I assumed this means that the DFI board fried my CPU for whatever reason... From the beeps you got i assume that the problem was your ram (never use different modules) not your cpu. If you cpu was fried you would have got the four leds from hell...are you sure that the cpu is dead? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Booger Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 OMG sounds like it's Gigabyte time! You just "toggled" the voltage switch on the PS like you're turning on the bathroom light? Have you ever messed with hardware before? I believe your issues would mostly be solved by reading up in this forum and also by not "toggling" the little red switch on the PS unless you change location. Sounds like your memory is not happy from the beeps you describe. Try 1 stick of your 2.5? gigs in the orange slot furthest from the cpu. Please post sig so we can help you better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
One9tek Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 WOW! First of all, this must be an extremely active forum and I appreciate all of the near instantaneous responces. WOW AGAIN! How to respond, how to respond.... Start with a responce to: davidhammock200: I'll get on to putting in my system specs as soon as I have a system with specs that operates. Thanks for your well wishing as to only the PSU being blown. I'm starting to think every minute that none of the other components were damanged due to the fact that I took my PCI Sound card which was in the system at the time of the incident and put it into another system and it is working just fine (is this a good assumption?) thanks again. Aresponce to: Sharp: Thank you for the information you provided regarding the power supply. I should have done some research before just flipping a switch to see what happened. So far, all I know is that no damage to the expensive sound card I had installed was inflicted. I will be sure to use two identical dual DIMM modules next time around. I did make all of the power connections you mentioned. The beeps occured before I did the big mistake with the Power Supply. The power supply was indeed a cheap one, but it was 500 watts, which seems to me would be well more than enough power. I don't know though. I didn't mention the fact that I had copious amounts of fans and LEDs, etc installed along with two memory draining video cards and two sata drives and one IDE. Anyway, thanx for your info. Any more advice? Aresponce to: Neutrino: Well, no actualy my first board was connected to a completely different power supply and my first board was a completely different board made by ABIT... the onboard Ethernet port didn't work, so that's a different story.... but the first board that "fried" was only the onboard lan component and not the entire thing, so the CPU and the Memory were good at least until the point in which I put them in the DFI motherboard. So now what do you think? Also what do you think not just specifically in relation to my responces to your comments but to others as well. (This is applies to all of you helpful, helpful people of who I appreciate to an extreme degree). Aresponce to: astaris and Booger: Well, if it's not dead, it's already shipped back and being replaced under warranty... I have been dealing with hardware for years, and I have been doing numerous other tech adventures, I think the blame now lies entirely on me and my lack of DFI MB knowledge - though the manual included was the slimmest of any manual I have EVER recieved with a motherboard. So one might slap DFI a bit for that, but anyway And again, thank you thank you thank you for all of your tips and pointers... I'm reading and reading but more responces and suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, one9tek Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frallan Posted June 9, 2005 Posted June 9, 2005 WOW! First of all, this must be an extremely active forum and I appreciate all of the near instantaneous responces. WOW AGAIN! How to respond, how to respond.... Start with a responce to: davidhammock200: I'll get on to putting in my system specs as soon as I have a system with specs that operates. Thanks for your well wishing as to only the PSU being blown. I'm starting to think every minute that none of the other components were damanged due to the fact that I took my PCI Sound card which was in the system at the time of the incident and put it into another system and it is working just fine (is this a good assumption?) thanks again. Well there U go assumtions and name calling b4 finding out is never a good idea On the Signature issue... Pleas make that signature withwhat U have standing by. We will try to help U to get up and running but this MoBo is pickier then anything Uve played w. b4 (unless Ure a toms hardware technician in the ongoing Multithreading Stress test LoL)... This means that we can point U in the way of right BIOSes and settings and troubleshoot U even B4 the issues arrive. :dog: GL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
One9tek Posted June 11, 2005 Posted June 11, 2005 Okay, so I got my New CPU plugged it in, placed the correct Memmory assemblage together as mentioned above, used a run of the mill bare minimum 500 watt PS and everything boots up just fine, no problem what so ever. Loads into windows XP, I install my driver software, which mostly installs, all but the Ethernet Adapters and a few of the USB onboard controller drivers (which failed installing) and will not allow me to add a new network detection because the PC can't smell anything to detect. Is this a 32 bit windows on 64 bit CPU problem? Is this a finding my MBs newest drivers problem? Or is this an actual physical damage to the board problem directly effecting the onboard component that controls the ethernet adapter... If you've been reading about and observed my previous stupididty, you'll be (at least I'm happy to know) nothing was fried in the system (or so it seems thus far): no attached expensive video cards, sound cards, drives, nothing... anyway... feedback from any of you GURUs out there would be appreciated. Thx, One9tek Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Posted June 11, 2005 Posted June 11, 2005 what power supply are you using? Your sig shows that nice 6600GT as your power supply lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidhammock200 Posted June 11, 2005 Posted June 11, 2005 DFI REQUIRES a PSU have a 24-pin native ATX connector & a min of 480W. Common sense requires that it be a good one as everything depends upon it. PSU Guide: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10854 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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