New stuff (mobo, cpu & gpu) system not posting

[DR.Death]

well a friend sold me some stuff a dfi lanparty ut rdx 200 board and a 3870x2 and a amd athlon 3200+ and at the moment its not posting it will start then reset then the dinostic light will stay on the vga one i have reset the cmos have a 650w psu on it now the rest is the same but still no luck and every thing was working befir point of sale just not all together

 

[DR.Death]

what no one has any ideas how to fix this

 

[warup89]

Try using another video card, the 3870x2's are kinda problematic.

 

[DR.Death]

ya i will have to find one my card that i use is about 300miles away

 

[Dice]

May sound silly but you checked that you have the ram is in the right slots? mine needs the ram in slots "a" if you only have two sticks.

 

[DR.Death]

i have 3 sticks and ya there in the right slots its errorin on the video card i may just need to find my self someone with a pci card

 

[FreedomEclipse]

take 1 stick of ram out & run it in Dual channel mode - I have a Nforce4 rig & it hates weird ram setups - either run a full stack so its all in dual channel or run with 2 sticks of ram. secondly check with your mate that the hardware was in working condition prior to sale (not saying you should doubt your friend - but Im sure he'd understand since your having issues with it)

 

[DR.Death]

tried one stick and and it was i seen it when it went in the boxes

 

[FreedomEclipse]

still not working then??

 

[DR.Death]

nope i may have to wait tell the 9th tell i can get a pci card ...lol

 

[FreedomEclipse]

so you have no old PCI (not PCI-E. Just good old PCI) cards lying around?? just to test & see if it is the graphics card, see if you can borrow one or something.

 

[DR.Death]

well all my stuff is home and i am 4 hours away from that and the guy i bought it from is comming up the 9th so i will just fix it then

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well all my stuff is home and i am 4 hours away from that and the guy i bought it from is comming up the 9th so i will just fix it then

GL with that - for the price of a plane ticket & lunch I can rough him up too if you wish

hopefully it is that graphics card thats gone wrong...have you tried reseting the bios??

 

[DR.Death]

yep i am thinking the bios needs to be updated its from back in the x850 days so it might be out of date and just be like wtf do i do with this because the last thing to run on it was a 1900xt so its old

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well Im not sure about updating the bios - from what i can see here the last bios was released in 2005 & it doesnt say anything much really

Major Reasons of Change:
1. Fix memory Set 2-1-1-1-1 and 4-1-1 mode wrong.
2. Set Cool'n'Quiet default disable.
3. Change the description of DQDRV.
4. Fix Read Preamble Table Error.
5. Shorten the delay time during clock programming loop.
6. Add over clocks step by step.
7. Fix Sil3114 RAID mode failure when insert two piece x16 PCI-E Device.
8. Fix soft-reset hang on POST code F2h if enable USB mouse support.
9. Add support AMD Athlon64 FX60 CPU.
10. Update SiI3112 RAID ROM.
11. Fix some SATA(DiamondMax 10 (6B160M0) HDD ) HDD detect fail at first time cool boot.