I need a Tower, Mobo, CPU and RAM (i need your help IT geeks) - Saxperience

Barry123 · 3rd November 2007, 10:40

...i think anyway.

My computer suffered terminal meltdown yesterday. Basically I turn it on and turns on the devices (you can hear the HD whirring up, see the cd drive flicker etc) but no graphics BIOS - thus no mobo bios, monitors remain dead.

Now I've had trouble in the past where I've suspected the primary slave IDE channel hasnt been working correctly as I've lost data from a HD and when a CD drive was installed it failed to detect the disk properly, so I'm guessing the chipset on the mobo has turned to dust.

my setup was as follows:
2600+ XP
1GB DDR RAM
2x 320GB IDE HDD's
2x DVD drives
Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum
5900XT Geforce something or other

thats about all I know of.

Basically I need a new tower, CPU, mobo and RAM and then I'll just attach my old devices, sound (PCI), graphics (AGP 8X), HDD's (IDE) etc

I need cheap as possible! but i DO need 1GB of RAM, Im a student! I dont need the fastest, but it would be nice to exceed the current speed of my old CPU.

what can i get for what price?

Please help!

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Mitchell · 3rd November 2007, 11:56

Maybe have a look attttt

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/105274...roduct_reviews

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/65719

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/103422

It's not amazing but its a fast one for the price (check out the reviews)

I'm looking for new comp bits aswell, such a c*nt!

Barry123 · 3rd November 2007, 13:22

legend

£90 and i can sort out my woes.

awesome.

lyndon · 4th November 2007, 17:56

You will need a cooler with that CPU as it's an OEM, but other than that, cock on for the money!

Barry123 · 4th November 2007, 18:34

will it be faster than my current setup up?

can i use my old ram? with the mobo and cpu?

lyndon · 4th November 2007, 19:04

The processor is a Sempron not an Athlon like your current, but it will be fast, as it's got a higher clock speed than the one you have at the moment

Can use your old RAM yep as the motherboard there accepts DDR400

Barry123 · 4th November 2007, 20:19

in that case can i just replace the mobo and keep the 2600+ i have now?

i think the mobo is root of all ~~evil~~ my problems....

lyndon · 5th November 2007, 10:30

Yeah you could do that mate

DarylVTR · 5th November 2007, 12:46

flash your bios, remove the graphics card blow on the connections and motherboard. May well boot up after that.

Does it beep atall?

Barry123 · 5th November 2007, 13:04

it beeped when i removed the ram and forgot to put back in.

how the smeg do i flash the bios man?

lyndon · 5th November 2007, 14:38

Don't do it if you don't know how Ads, could well and truly buttfuck your pc

Get the new motherboard for what it costs

Mystic^p · 5th November 2007, 14:57

Remove the little flat battery on the mobo for a while & then stick it back in & boot up.

Your cpu wont fit that mobo either, yours is a Socket A & the new sempron boards are Socket 754.

You can get a new CPU for <£30 though so your option may be to replace the CPU & motherboard & reuse all the rest of your current components.

lyndon · 5th November 2007, 15:01

That can't be a socket A can it?

1gb ram in a socket a? My old Duron rig used to take 128mb

Mystic^p · 5th November 2007, 15:07

Athlon Xps were all socket A. Think Socket A boards would take upto about 4gb in ram. My current board has 2gb in it & an Athlon XP 2800+ i'll check what it can take (rooms a tip, bout to be decorated & as luck would have it my mobos box is right behind me

)

EDIT: 3gb max in 3 slots. It was a top spec board at the time too (Asus A7n8x Delux v.2) so i think that will be about the max any socket A board would take