My PC is completely FUBAR

[2 ton hoss]

I BUILT A MACHINE THIS FALL.

ATHLON 1.2
512 MB RAM
40 GB HARD DRIVE

I ALREADY HAD A MONITOR.

COST ME LESS THAN $800.

 

[Drifter]

If you have bad ram that could cause xp or 2000 not to load. If you can install 98 no problem (or ME) then I bet its your problem.

Worth a shot anyways....

What are your specs?

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

My friend recommended this exact setup to me from PriceWatch.com He said AMD 1800XP mobo and chip for $134 and that DDR ram was running for less than $25 for128MB. It seems as though I could get the mobo, chip, and 512 RAM for about $250. When did you get yours and how much was it?

-Warik

My chip was around 130 and the MSI motherboard at 120, then the ram cost 90, tower & power 50, vid card 70 and xp (oem) 90.

A fairly decent price for a top of line system. Of course already had hard drive, 2 cd drives, zip drive, network card and 3.5. I don't think I will ever buy another built PC. It's easy as hell to build one, just follow directions like building a model

 

[Warik]

Shit! It was the fan! I called my dad's friend with a long face knowing that I'd probably have to fork over a few hundred bucks for a new board/cpu/ram, and the first thing he told me was "open up the case and see if the fan turns on." Well, the damn fan didn't turn on. It just sat there laughing at me.

So, it would appear as though my CPU has been overheating and then dying on me for the past 2+ months and refusing to restart until I left it to cool. Well, the first step is obvious, I have to get a new fan... but I'm concerned that the CPU may have been permanently damaged after 2 months of this shit. What do you guys think? Think one of those AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz "Big Fat Long Style" processors can survive 2 months of no fan without permanent damage?

-Warik

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

fans are cheap.. buy a new fan hook it up, and run some of the standard bench mark programs on it.. from what I have seen, if you burn out a cpu, you BURN it out... no sort of in CPU's..

that being said, you probably put a lot of wear and tear on it, and it wont last as long as it should have.. if you have a nice mobo you might want to scrap the old cpu and just get a new one.. Sometimes when a cpu goes, it can cause dammage on the mobo.

 

[Y_lifter]

 

[Code]

With PCs, it's either hardware, the OS, third party software, the weather, a virus, the whim of the Gods, user error, bad fashion sense, poor spelling, a car accident, monsoon season or the fan.

Get a mac

 

[Swoleyoley]

Get a mac.

can we ban this idiot, hes gonna hurt somebody

 

[Code]

D'oh!

My plan to monopolize the software distribution world by converting everyone to mac has been discovered!!!

 

[mrbill]

warik since the system was shutting down when it overheated to protect itself it is probably fine. Just get a new fan or even two. Its no big deal, my system did the same thing when my fan went out. Of course when I opened it to check it out, the fan was one of the first things I checked out