On Monday 04 April 2005 10:00, Bart Garst wrote:
> > I bought a Fry's special over the weekend. An ECS KT600-A with
> > a Sempron
> > processor. But I'm having a problem I've never seen before and I was
> > wondering if anyone out there had seen it before.
> >
> > The issue is that the board itself will boot. I get a post and a memory
> > check. But the hard drive and the CD rom are not powering up.
> >
> > At first I thought this was a problem with the power supply, so I
> > change it.
> > But I get the same problem with the second one. grant it, it is
> > not a new
> > power supply. But I can't believe that I have two of them
> > damaged in just
> > the same way.
> >
> > Anyone else ever seen this? Any ideas?
> >
> > Devin
>
> The other responses suggest looking at the IDE cables. This is good advice,
> but if the drives aren't powering up, I'd look at the power cables too (the
> four-wire flat connector). Make sure the female connectors in the plug are
> small enough to connect with the male pins on the drives (wiggle the plugs
> while the power is on and you'll hear if a connection gets made).
>
> Bart
>
One last possibility is that you might just have got a defective MB. It's
rare, but it happens from time to time. I've been lucky in that all the MBs
I've bought from Fry's have been good, but I've only built about a dozen
computers. I know one guy who builds computers for a living, and won't buy a
MB from anyone unless they will test it for him because he's run across
several bad ones.
As a rule, I don't buy anything from ANY electronics store that has been
opened, returned, "double taped", used as a display unit, or if the original
packaging has been disturbed in any way no matter what discount they offer on
it. I've always run into trouble with them, and Fry's has a policy of
reselling returned items marked 10% off regular price. Not worth the risk,
IMHO, but at least they're honest about it.
Stu
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