Amateur Tries 2 Build P.C.

[size=3][color=blue]Could i please tap into the wealth of knowlege that my fellow tech heads possess.
I am installing a FX5600 onto my new A-Bit IC7-MAX3 (£185.00 motherboard) and i keep getting vertical lines on start- up & once the drivers are installed the screen keeps flashing PLEASE ASSISST THIS IDIOT IN DISTRESS

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I came home from offshore and bought a thermaltake case , New motherboard, 1Ghz DDR PC3200ram , New FX5600 256Mb graphics card, jet 7 coolmaster fan TOTAL expenditure of the guts £700.00, thinking i can do this how hard can it be , OOhh how wrong and eager this fool was. So to anyone else thinking of trying to do this with little or no experience please learn from my stupidity.

reards Dominic G

Originally posted by Dominic G@Jan 25 2004, 04:04 PM

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I came home from offshore and bought a thermaltake casereards

OK, if by Offshore you meen 'out of the UK Mainland... from another country- you could have your PSU trying to detect a current of 180v, which is the standdard in some countrys, but in the UK its 240v..

Tis' all i can see that is wrong,... and if you are dead posertive that all the components SHOULD be compatible, start swapping things abot with a friend, like for instance, swap the PSU round with another one, and see if it works without funny lines, and then swap the ram... swap the video card etc.

The thing ur talking 'bout is called VOLTAGE.

Current is measured in ampere, not in volt.

Dont confuse the guy more than he already is. :Oo:

if the voltage wasn't right it'd be fubar, but i'm suspecting something's wrong with the vidcard, so start by trying another, and if it's still weird make sure the jet 7 cooler is mounted properly.

Originally posted by Jerohquai@Jan 26 2004, 09:23 AM
The thing ur talking 'bout is called VOLTAGE.

Current is measured in ampere, not in volt.

Dont confuse the guy more than he already is. :Oo:

No, the PSU definatly converts Volts :Oo:

The power supply does produce voltage.

My guess is that the little red switch on the back of the
power supply is set to 120v, not the UK's 220volt standard
just flip the red switch thingy on the back of the power
supply and u should be good.

lol...

flux

if you want to be technical the ps does not produce power, it converts power from yours house line to fit the pc's needs, if that was his problem, there's no way it would even boot up, could still be a vid problem, but not a problem of getting one for the wrong voltage. try like the rest said and swap video cards, and if you still got the problem try switching everything else. Building and or even upgradings turns into a nightmare 95% of the time, so don't feel like an idiot.

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