My pooters a non booter

[Ham]

get a low end 939 to test it with? they are very cheap.

 

[FarFarAway]

£41 for a 3200+...

 

[Sticky Mick]

£41 for a 3200+...

Yeah, I know. Makes ya sick don't it?

I paid £128 for my 3000+ about 16months ago I can get an x2 48000 for just £20 more

Thanks guys, I'll see what I can dig out.

 

[Sticky Mick]

YESSSSS!!

Gettin' the rig back tomorrow.

Apparently it was an intermittent fault with the PSU. It was giving out enough juice to power the rig but it only worked when it wanted to.

They wired the PSU up to another PC (a cheap and nasty Media Centre job) with on-board video and sound. Sure enough it POSTed 4 times then gave up the ghost on the 5th attempt and wouldn't work again after that.

They installed a new PSU (Akasa Powerplus 650W Quiet V3 Black) and they tell me everything is now hunky dory

 

[Sticky Mick]

I can confirm the AMD rig is now fully functional again Just a couple of hiccups on first boot this afternoon, but a visit to the BIOS sorted them.

Just like to say thanks to everyone who made suggestions and gave ideas, and thanks for putting up with my rants

As John Cleese once said:

"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works."

 

[PV5150]

Nice to see you've got the issue sorted mate, nothing worse than when the gremlins come out to play

 

[Sticky Mick]

Cheers PV

The old gal works like a dream now