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6 months of no work...What's wrong THIS TIME

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AMDCam

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System Specs
Processor AMD Opteron 148 at (hope) 3.0ghz
Motherboard MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum with Nforce 3 Ultra
Cooling XP-90C (CPU), A400 (Graphics), 8 case fans, 92mm Tornado
Memory 2gb OCZ Gold DDR500 dual-channel
Video Card(s) Leadtek 6800GT near UEE speed (448core/1.18memory)
Storage 2x 80gb WD 7,200rpm 8mb cache Caviar SATA 150 in RAID 0
Display(s) (2 soon) Samsung Syncmaster 172N 17" LCD
Case Atrix black case with A LOT of mods
Audio Device(s) Motherboard
Power Supply Aspire 520w tri-fan blue LEDs
Software Windows XP Home, Office 2003 Professional Edition
Hey, I've been sitting here with the piece in the dropdown specs for almost 6 months now, and no matter what I do I get problem after problem after problem after problem after problem with it. This time, for the first time, I actually got the thing to boot (kind of) but in the Splash screen it freezes. That's the first and only screen I ever see. Not only is it frozen, but it's got lines of artifacts running all through the screen. I thought the processor had bad thermal contact, but I reapplied it 5 times with different pressure, different amounts of thermal paste, and even twisted the heatsink around (couldn't really move it but you know what I mean) to get it to boot right. It's not happening. Sometimes it'll give off an alarm and restart but I really don't know why (I mean I assume it's the processor but it's defying logic). Anyone know what could be causing this problem?

I have an XP-90C heatsink on an MSI K8N-Neo2 Platinum, maybe they're bad compatibility with each other? Thanks guys
 
too many mods? or perhaps you need to try with a different video card...if not that, did you remember the spacers? RAID array might be giving you trouble, or the RAM isnt compatible with system (memory is only supposed to go to DDR400 :P)
 
sounds like your gpu died... try a new card and see if thats it.
 
Alright thanks guys, I'll try the GPU because that's a huge possibility, I shocked it a long time ago but since it does display that Splash screen I thought it was fine. The RAM is still the old DDR400 in there so that's not it. Plus DDR500 isn't officially compatible with almost any motherboard out there but people still use it, and it is the DDR standard just with a higher clock. Thanks guys
 
yea try the vid card, that should help it out... if not well good luck
 
Hey guys, yeah it was the graphics card. Thanks A LOT everyone. Only problem is, I had a 6800GT that hit near-Ultra Extreme Edition speed, which is really even more/as powerful than the 7800GS (stock), so now that that's dead I've got nowhere to go but down, or keep it the same. I'm gonna try to get it repaired today
 
uh yeah keep us posted...I suggest you use a PCI video card until the thing works.
 
AMD Cam, grab yourself a 7800GS 512MB from Gainward...why? because it has a 7800GT chip with 20 pipes!!! ;)

cheers
DS
 
DUDE, YOU'RE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH MAN. I knew AGP wasn't totally dead.
 
Hey man do you know where I could buy it or if it's released yet? I found one german company selling it for like about $500 and lol, a 25 percent increase in the power I already have (6800GT) is not worth $500. I've been looking everywhere but just can't find them for sale almost anywhere
 
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