nforce2 driving me nuts
 

Okay, since my 4th nforce2 motherboard (a chaintech) died suddenly without warning last week, i had to buy a new one. The dude who wrote this review recommends an nf7-s, so i bought me one of those.

I've put a fairly virgin (as in barely ever overclocked/overvolted) XP1700+ juihb together with 2*Mushkin BH-5 and a R9700Pro in it, and it refuses to boot.

Mmm'kay, maybe it's a compatability issue, so I replaced the radeon with a GF2. No boot either. Hmmm.... maybe just one stick ram would help? No boot either. I retry to boot and halelulia it boots fine. I checked the settings in the bios, save&exit and... it refuses to boot. Aah!

30 attempts to boot later, i figured it might be the BH-5 sticks, so I replaced it with twinmoss 60B. No luck either.

WTF is wrong? I've got two motherboards, an untampered, intact XP1700+, 3 sticks of ram, 2 PSU's and 2 videocard, and no combination wants to work!

5 Nvidia Nforce2 motherboards and not a single one working. :bash: Next time I buy a Dell with a Intel Celeron. :ws:

Any tips, except smashing it with a sledgehammer?

RMA ...

Which piece? : )

like poitke said on other forum: cpu is most likely the pain in the ***, as it is the only part that remained unchanged.

I would RMA the mobo though, if the CPU works in another system but not in the NF7.

I can't check which part doesn't work, as no possible combination works with the parts I have.

I'll try to get a second cpu somewhere. If the cpu died after two months without upping vcore...

I had an nforce 2 epox refuising to boot, giving a led error of OC this weekend.
Searched the manual, no explanation.
got a new asus a7n8x-x (only 70 euro) and replaced it all : no boot.
got the 2600+ out which was in it and replaced it with a 1800+ I still had : perfectly ok.

this is the 2nd 2600+ dying on me, none of them was very overclocked (this one did 2200 mhz 11*200 on standard voltage, so that's hardly extreme overclocking as it was cooled with a slk900...). CRAP
these things are unreliable.

Yeah, I'm getting disappointed to about the reliability of the NF2+XP combo. : /

Never the less, A64 is still too expensive and XP's are dirt cheap, so i ordered a Duron appaloosa and a XP Thorton to work with in the meanwhile. :)

€200 for a A64 3000+ and €150 for a motherboard.
that's like... NF7-S + your old XP + the appaloosa and the thorton :)

0wned :grin: