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20th October 2005, 03:51
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|  Pc wont turn on...... first of all i was on this forum about 8 months ago asking questions about new pc. Anyway I got my new pc and everything and you guys helped alot so thanks. Now i have another question for you. My mothers pc just died. It was an emachines with an athlon xp 1600. At first it would start up and give me a page about the mobo specs and to press this and that do certain things. If i pressed what it told me to nothing happened. Now when you push the power button it doesnt even turn on. Ive tried a different power supply and my hd seems ok. I think maybe the mobo is shot. My mother doesnt realy want to fork out 250 for even a low end pc right now. But If the mobo is the problem would it be a good idea to just buy a 35 dollar mobo and interchange her processor? If i had to build her a new pc Id like to make use of her nearly new 1 gig of pc2100, and thats the trouble im having, i cant find any new athlon xp 1800s or antoher better than the 1600. Thanks guys. |
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20th October 2005, 04:24
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| just to make a note, the power supply i tried was only 200 watts, the normal in it is 250. I also tried replacing the cmos battery and still nothing.... |
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20th October 2005, 04:45
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 | I don't think the old board support 1 gb of memory; that may well be the problem.
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20th October 2005, 04:48
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| i kinda exagerated when i say nearly new, its just over a year old and has been running great in the pc for that amount of time. I wish it was that easy lol. Thanks |
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20th October 2005, 14:58
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| 200W is indeed very low for an athlon XP. But you can get any recent socket A mobo that uses DDR memory and use it with that setup. All of them should still take PC2100 |
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