My New PC im building

[steveuk]

Hay.. ok im building a new Gaming PC, i know Hard ware is going down in price .but my funds is limited. Here the spec of what im building.

1 new Case with 500Watt Power Unit.
Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2l with Builtin Nvidia NH7025 Socket AM2+ motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ 2.50GHz (Retail) processor
2 x 1gig Arianet PC2-5300 SDram memory.
XFX Geforce 8500GT 512MB DDR2 PC-I Passive GFX Card.
160gig Hard drive(a old one) i have will upgrade to 500-gig when i got more funds avalible.
Old 16X DVD writer

total cost for all above Not inc Hard Drive & DVD Drive £195:00 inc Postage.

I did have one of the above Motherboard a few weeks ago, but it was faulty, so i had to send it back for replacment,which i got today, Wednesday..Just waiting for the Case now with the 500-watt PSU.


Think thiswill do for gaming as my old PC running COD4 & Battle field 2 is on a AMD 3000+ processor, 1 gig DDR memory, 7600GS GFX card, and a ECS K8M800-M2.Motherboard 420 watt PSU, 320-gig HD, 1 X 8X dvd writer 1x 18X dvd writer.

Question is what is the best way to put in the Motherboard without shorting it or causing problem to the Bios, as i think i didnt Earth myself that well on the last motherboard,reason i had to send it back,caused Bios/Cmos corruption.
Rubbing ya hands on the case is ment to be the best idear, or is a Earth Band thingy worth getting just to buils this 1 PC.???? all parts i have are with Guaranteed New and with Recipts, but i dont wanta keeps ending parts back if i screw them up.lol

Seem like most of the new hardware is more sensitive than the old Stuff.

anyways what ya think of my new PC spec when built.

The old 3000+ amd system i will now use mostly for the internet, the new PC i use for Gaming & Video converting, hopefully not for online web browsing. that way shouldnt get any Viruses, Trojans,Wor, Spyware,ect

steve.

[aicaramba]

Doesnt seem too much faster as your old system tbh.
As for putting in the motherboard... This actually goes for every bit you put in your pc. If u pick it up with your bare hand, you should touch a radiator in your home or so.. Something that conducts electricity and is earthed.

[Soviet]

If u pick it up with your bare hand, you should touch a radiator in your home or so.. Something that conducts electricity and is earthed.

Seriously? fuck.

[steveuk]

Doesnt seem too much faster as your old system tbh.
As for putting in the motherboard... This actually goes for every bit you put in your pc. If u pick it up with your bare hand, you should touch a radiator in your home or so.. Something that conducts electricity and is earthed.

Well least it'll be faster and have double the memory and a faster GFX card, i can always upgrade again in time.
I have radiator kinda next to me, but i thought rubbing ya hands on a PC case would be ok, ive seen many forums now saying rub inside the case, to release any earth from ya....

A Tech guy came around yesterday and installed a new motherboard in my daughers PC , he laided desktop on the floor, wipped out the old motherboard and slung in the new one, i did nt see him earth himeself off,and he had no earthing Band strap on that i could see, but motherboard worked ok.....IT a 4000+ amd 512mb memory runing vista which i had to re-install and activate online . ive ordered a 1 gig memory chip to replace the 512 chip ,will buy another 1 gig when i can afford to..

My system will be slightly faster than my daughters now, 4800+ to her 4000 chip,mines Due core, her's i dont think is due-core.? i'll have double the memory, and i'll have a better graphics setup my 8500GT to her built-in GFX .lol.
If all goes well and nothink screws up.. Im only putting a 160-gig IDE HD in for now as thats all i have ,i ll put a 500-gig Sata Drive in and a decent Card reader into my system when i can afford it.

The old Pc im running now has a 320 & a 250 gig drives i could use the 250, but there to much stuff on there i wanta keep, and it'll take way to long to copy it over to the 160 what i want saved. Anyways i probley only have about 1/2 dozen to a dozen games on my new system as im fussy in what games i play...

Games i'll have will be.
Call of duty 1 & 2, Cod U.O & COD5 when it comes out and if my PC is compatible enought for it.
F.E.A.R. Battle Field 2 & expansion Packs. Medal of Honor AirBourn, PRAY, UnReal tourument, some casino slot games,
and i'll proberly use the new PC for Video Converting. Thats all realy, ow and the normal Antivirus /Spyware stuff added.


Thats all realy, wont use it much on the internet apart for Gameing, i'll use this old PC for internet stuff,chat, forums, MSN messenger ect.

Steve

[helium]

The best is to have some kind of ESD glove/bag or whatever, but you could just touch the sink before you start touching your PC

[aicaramba]

If u dont release static electricity your pc will work fine, but there is a slight possibility that it goes unstable after a year or so.. I think it usually doesnt even matter, but better to be safe then sorrow.

[steveuk]

well i got the case today. stuck everythink in and there's a Big Problem.. I cant access the BIOS, when i press the DEL key i just get a Blank Black Screen, even when i press other F-Keys same thing happens.

I do get tho the info, Processor, Drives, Memory, but thats all, even if i dont press any F-Keys i still get a Blank Black Screen,
Ive the Cmos jumper, and taken out battery several times, longest over an hour, just cant seem to get it into the bios so i can set the boot settings to DVD and install XP.??? This is the 2nd time 2nd motherboard thats gone like this, could it be a fauly batch of MotherBoards Aria.co.uk has, as i sent a motherboard excatly the sae as i have here back to Aira last week and got this as a replacment. M/B isa Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2L (gamers Choice..hah)
Processor is compatible for M/B so id the Memory,otherwise they wouldnt get picked up at startup...It's after everythink is detected and when i try pressing to get into bios when it dont wor...

Anyone got any Idears what to go..Apart for sending it back a 2d time.???

Steve

[Soviet]

When building a computer about a month ago I actually ran into this issue. I was trying to build it using old components from other systems. Through process of elimination I ruled out everything but the motherboard. So, my guess is it is the motherboard again. But one thing, when your system starts up do you hear any beeping? If so, check out this website

http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml

[steveuk]

sent motherboard back to Aria.co.uk they sent a replacement and guess what same thing, cant get into Bios when pressing DEL-Key. sent everythink back on request of Aria, for them to check everythink out, guess what Faulty motherboard again..ive told them if another is going to be sent i want them to check the motherbard and make sure the bios works, or send me a differant Motherboard. hope to get all my stuff back today Tuesday 5th Aug. hope it all works this time..grrrrrrrr


well 02:30am my bed time or i might not wake up for deleivery and i dont wanta miss that now...

Steve

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

lol, how crap is that ?

[steveuk]

Fucking IDOTS them pricks at ARIA.CO.UK they sent me back the same fualty motherboard,even after they sent an email saying it was faulty. I rang and complained,They was ment to ring me after 5pm, and they didnt, theres hell going to pay tomorrow, im going to shout like the devil with them FUCKING PRICKS....GRRRRRR

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

lol, GL!

[steveuk]

Well Guys it done, sorted, was'nt motherboard issue after all.lol thisis what happened.

When i put motherboard in cse, and all the other bits, turned on PC, it post to processor,drives, memory, ect, then goes to a Black Blank screen, I thought it wss the motherboard all the time but nope, somethink else was causing the problem..

THE MONITOR> strange but yea it was the monitor, even the Tech guys dont understand it, at Aria or at PC World.
The Monitor is a Daewoo DE with built in TV and Svideo,ect. now what i did was to try another monitor my old one, once i change monitors, everythink worked, i could get into the Bios, (DEL KEy) Bootup Options (F12),ect,ect on the Daewoo i could'nt do any of these.

So it was either me buying a new monitor or a KVM switch as shown here.


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=003

I got mine for 99p but Postage was £7:99
What this does is allow you to use 2 PCs on 1 monitor, and 1 keyboard & Mouse on 2 PC's This is what im using now, to switch from 1 PC to another on the same monitor all i have to do is press 1 little switch on he KBM box and hay Presto, im on the other machine, but you can only view 1 PC at a time.

The other Problem i had with the PC was a Memory issue,. i was using the AIRA brand, and the PC just would not let me install Vista or XP, as i kepted getting the Blue screen of Death on Installing Vista, i did get XP installed, but kepted getting Blue Screen Memory dump crapp. So i took them out and went and brought a matching pair of OCZ memory

I brought these from PC world 2-gig pack for £29:99 on there Website, specials, saveing me £10 instead of buying direct in store. Got home installed memory and installed a custome version of XP, and now everythink is installed and working 100%, had a few small trojans pop up and sorted, also had a script error on MSN Messenger everyime i logged in,but now thats sortded out..

Everything seems fine at the moe. i got COD4 & Cod2 installed along with some other games, FEAR, Commandos strike force Demo, RedOrchestra,Insurgency Combat,Spec Force, BattleField , tried to install MOH Airbourne, but my key just dont seem to wanta work anymore so ive brought a new copy for £10.from these guys on Ebay http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/bulletsoftwaresales/ plus some other games ive ordered,as this is going to be a Games machine.
Bulletsoftwaresalesare selling at the moement CALL OF DUTY DELUXE - PC - BOTH GAMES! NEW & SEALED for just £6:50 P+P £1:50 if anyone is intrested.

Anyways that my update new, system now working, and ive seen some of you guys on there already.suck as The DUDE & [SoE]_Zaitsev, Not sene ATZE for a while,hope to see more of you guys on COD4 when im around, but im trying out some of the games ive just instaleed, Commandos Strike Force looks good, in single player, ive ordered the full game from Bulletsoftwaresalesare for just £1:70 P+P £1:99,new and sealed. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COMMANDOS-STRIKE- ... dZViewItem, so im playing that for a few days, but will still pop onto COD4 every now and then,.


Steve

[Jumpeh]

looks better than my pc that im using tbh

[JDogg]

Awesome. I got my pc lol. Graphics card should be here Wednesday or Thursday.