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MMFSdjw~rb |
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Category: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force General Posted: Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006 04:47 pm |
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Alright, sorry for the rule breakage of the last thread. Here's the first post from that thread, slightly edited. Quote | Alright, so here's the whole story.
I installed Splinter Cell Chaos theory which has starforce.
the game crashed to the blue screen twice during setup but while playing it was fine.
after playing I used the starforce removal tool.
Then I played Oblivion for a while with no problems.
today I pop in oblivion, play for about 10 mins then it crashes, thing is, this ain't a normal crash. I hear the sound stick so I know it crashed but no blue screen. then I notice that my monitorbehaving as if my pc is turned off (the orange light rather than green was on)
I restarted my PC but my monitor, mouse, keyboard, all that stuff is not getting any signal. as if the pc was turned off. I checked all the plugs. opened it up and checked the powersupply to make sure everything was still plugged in.
There are no problems that I can see.
When I turn on my PC the HD light and the lights on the drives appear to act normal.
I recently installed a new DVD burner so I unplugged that and then after turning my PC on the monitor light turned green but nothing came up on the screen. then the light went back to orange, then to green then it stayed on orange.
then after unplugging my other DVD drive the monitor light stayed green but still nothing on the screen.
wtf.
Help me please. |
To answer Para's question, no there are no beeps or errors at all. I tried each stick of memory, one by one, in the first slot but still got nothing. so I guess that means they're all blown or my CPU is right? What do you think the chances of success are in me replacing the CPU rather than getting a whole new MOBO? A few months ago I got a new video card, nvidia 6800GT. it's an agp card and I talked with yall about the advantages of getting a new MOBO with a PCIe slot and PICe card and it just ended up being a better deal to just get the best agp card I could and save the PCIe for later. So if I get a new MOBO I really want to get the same or as close as possible to what I have so that reletivly new purchase won't go to waste, unless of course if it's blown too. And, I've still got my old ATI card at home so I can trade it out to see if that makes any difference. Is the best way to see if thay 6800 is blown to just put in in another machine? |
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sandman_qc~rb |
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MMFSdjw~rb |
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FaTaL eRrOr~rb |
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MMFSdjw~rb |
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FaTaL eRrOr~rb |
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Category: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force General Posted: Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 12:29 am |
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You should be able to find a board that'll work based on the following information: size/type of RAM (pin number, DDR, etc), CPU socket (if you're going to keep you current processor, if not, this doesn't really matter), AGP or PCI express, powersupply type (ATX, etc), board size ("baby ATX" or "micro ATX" are just a couple). You can probably google a part number off the current board and get most (if not all) of this information. |
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Cobalt60~rb |
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MMFSdjw~rb |
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MMFSdjw~rb |
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MMFSdjw~rb |
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