Units From Wyrmshadow

[Ares de Borg]

Yep.

 

[General 666]

Cool ! From Vuldacons units I know that timed sounds makes out the half (ingame) appearance.
I usually adjust all aspects of the game. But the sounds ? I just cut`em if needed.
Can`t wait to see and listen to the next ones.

 

[The Guardian]

Awesome guys, I've been waiting for this one. Shock and awe!!!! Shock and Awe!!!!
BRING IT ON

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Bad news: motherboard died this moening. Computer kept rebooting by itself, now it won't even power up. Will keep you posted.

FYI I'm writing this from my phone.

 

[General 666]

These are VERY BAD news indeed ! I hope you can make it running again. Best Luck to you !

 

[Steph]

Your computer and Shiro's didn't engage in some shameful relationship, did they?
Shiro's computer is dead too, I hope it's not contagious.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Ah shoot. I hope you'll get this fixed soon.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

New motherboard, don't work.
New motherboard, new cpu, don't work.
New motherboard, new cpu, new powerpack, still cursed.

Still posting with my phone. Ho-humm.

 

[Ozymandias]

New motherboard, don't work.
New motherboard, new cpu, don't work.
New motherboard, new cpu, new powerpack, still cursed.

Still posting with my phone. Ho-humm.

Hmmm ... Maybe an Exorcism ... So you're only o/l means of communication is your phone?

,

Oz

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I'm not an idiot.
I can put together a computer blind folded.
Then why can I still not make this work with ANOTHER MB?

Oh, and the jerks @ the store refused to take back the other MB because it was damaged.
No, Really? That's how you sold it to me, just yesterday.

I am at my wits end right now.

 

[Ozymandias]

Two questions:

(1) Does it work w/out that extra 1 MB? and (2) I thought Texans and New Yorkers had the same sort of approach to scum who refuse to take back defective goods - - by which I mean escalate, scream, email the CEO. You know, pretend it's 1968 and they're the Viet Cong - ESCALATE!!

,

Oz

 

[General 666]

Then why can I still not make this work with ANOTHER MB?

Are you using the same HD ? If so ,I suspect a brand new virus is causing this. So try to scan the HD with an updated VirusScanner. With the hardest settings possible. Don`t forget to activate the heuristic search !
Or you may have an older HD to try.

Oz: (1) With MB Wyrm means MotherBoard not MegaByte.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

There is nothing wrong with my drives because they work in another box. But its a much slower and handicapped system and I dont want it. Whoever designed the internals should be SHOT because it's not conducive to upgrading in any sense of the word.

2 motherboards in 2 days and they both wont Post. If you don't know what that means then you shouldn't be involved in the conversation.

 

[Blue Monkey]

2 motherboards in 2 days and they both wont Post. If you don't know what that means then you shouldn't be involved in the conversation.

The only component you haven't mentioned ( in the last couple of posts) is the memory sticks. Are you reusing ram from the old machine? Whatever killed the old mb might have affected the old ram.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

The only component you haven't mentioned ( in the last couple of posts) is the memory sticks. Are you reusing ram from the old machine? Whatever killed the old mb might have affected the old ram.

No... I tried it with 'new' memory sticks and there was no difference.
. here's the long story.

Spoiler :

Last tuesday morning I had just finished playing a round of Borderlands and I was checking my email. The first thing I read is that I finally got a big break for a grafix commision that might bring in quite a bit of money. Then I also read that a big influence on my life had just died and I was reading his obituary online. Just then my computer lost power and rebooted. I thought there was a power surge because I didn't have anything else running in my apartment.

So the computer rebooted. Loaded up windows, and as soon as all the peripherals loaded up, it rebooted by itself. It kept doing this for 30 minutes, constantly rebooting. Until finally it stopped. As in no power was showing at all. No lights, nothing. And I hadn't even touched it.
Later that day I gave it to my brother (network engineer) to look at and he said something was fried on the motherboard for whatever reason. I was 'annoyed' all day. I am of cource being facetious as I'm lucky I didn't punch out any dumb customers that day.
Next day was a free day, but I had to go 60 miles out of town for a dentists appointment. And hour and 4 fillings later I was going 80 miles in the other direction to my local electronics mega-store (Fry's) and bought a new MB along some other incidentals.
I got home and put the stuff together. I followed the manual precisely and plugged all my stuff in. I got a LONG CONTINUOUS BEEEEEEP when I booted it.. short pause.. then another long BEEEEEP. But nothing else was happening. Turned it off. Tried again, then same thing happened. So I turned it off again as I could see nothing overtly wrong with it and went to bed as I was very tired from my odd hours and the morning's appointment.
When I woke up later that afternoon I went to my brother's house after he got home from work so he could take a look at it. This time it didn't even beep. That's what POST means. That annoying little beep when you boot your computer is very important. We tried everything, including unplugging everything non essential, expansion cards, HD's, all of it so it was only the MB and the chip and we hand booted the thing by using a wire on the power switch peg on the MB. Still no BEEP, plenty of power, things were humming.. just nothing else was happening.
By that time it was 8pm and the store would close @ 10pm so I rushed across town again and this time bought a new CPU and fan just incase my old one was also trashed.
SAME DAMN RESULTS. New board, new chip.. nothing.

So the next day I went back and wanted to return everything, and get a NEW, if slightly cheaper MB to try again. And wouldn't you know.. the jerks (and his boss) wouldnt take back the MB because they said it was damaged, had a bent pin in the CPU cradle. Well there's $90 I'll never see again. Yeah, me mad.
Then I went back to the MB aisle and stared at the stuff for 30 minutes without anyone helping me, trying to find a board that was compatible with the parts I had at home.
Bought something cheaper, went home and tried it out. EXACT SAME THING. I even tried it with a different power pack. Nothing. Only this time it would power on, suddenly turn off, then power up again. There was current flowing through everything, CPU, CPU fan, hard drives, LED's on the board but where was no beep from my box and no signal going to my monitor. I had a screen plugged directly to the MB so there was no issue if the Video card wasn't compatible. My monitor said "no signal" and shut down. I tried it with and without my RAM chips, nothing. I even had a chip that I never took out of the packaging the last time I built a comp and used that, still nada.
I am doing everything right. I tried every combination of parts and settings I could think of, new/old CPU, different power pack, memmory in/out, video card in/out. But it all still seems to be BUSTED and it's perplexing me and my brother, and we've been building comps for 15+ years now.


My brother gave me a loaner comp to use (I HATE IT!) and I tried it's CPU core with the new board. Nothing. I tried my old chip in my bro's comp and it wouldnt load so that told me my old chip was bad. Same dual core Intel cpu chips and they didn't work in the new MB. By this time I quit trying. I figure the computer gods don't want me to succeed. Good things are only dangled infront of me to tease me then I get slapped in the face. (Ozzy knows a little of this but he's discreet and won't blab, right?)

So right now I'm on a loaner computer and I hate it. It's like wearing someone else's clothes that have already been broken in and not the way you like it. And I can't just put my stuff inside it and make it work. It's my brother's TV/Movie/Media box that sat in his living room connected to his TV. It's made to look pretty and NOT be upgrade or user friendly. It's solid steel, weighs about 40 pounds, it's a desktop, not a tower, the inside is cramp and jumbled with wired everywhere and in the way, and whoever designed it ought to be shot for being so annoying. It doesn't recognize all my drives, runs Win7 when I'm using my reliable XP on my old system. None of my programs really work and I've tried to install them temporarily on the new main drive, unsuccessfully. I've tried to use my drives wholy, but since it's a brand new system, my main drive doesn't recognize every piece of hardware on the new box, including video cards and I can't even get online to get drivers.. not working from MY drives that is.
It's a real Catch 22.. I mess with my files, go online, but not use my programs on the new system.. or I can do everything I normally could but severely handicapped (no driver support) and no internet using only my old drives. Oh... and it keeps telling me I have to activate my WindowsXP on my old drives because it's a new box, but I can't do that with no 'net connection.

So now my only choice is to either QUIT entirely or try and by new parts online because I refuse to go to that stupid store again.

Not being able to do ANYTHING grafix oriented on a nightly basis, or watch all the movies I have on my comp is just giving me cabin fever of EPIC porportions.

Oh... and I could also be missing out on $2000 worth of commisioned work right now.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Damn. I hope you'll get this fixed. Maybe sell the surplus CPU on eBay to get sth back at least?

Had a similar situation once. Turned out a cable was dead.

 

[tom2050]

IIRC, long beep is usually MB or power supply... because several years ago that happened to me (That beep is stained in my mind now). Ended up being the Power Supply, but that system got so messed up (it was old) that the power supply connector burnt the motherboard (literally).

But if you replaced MB and Power, and still no go, could be something like a rogue cable somewhere as Ares mentioned. ??

 

[Wyrmshadow]

So, no rogue cables. Especialy when I had ONLY the power supply hooked to the boards to test for the beep.

 

[Ozymandias]

So, no rogue cables. Especialy when I had ONLY the power supply hooked to the boards to test for the beep.

What're the specs for the MB you need? - I might be able to rustle something up.

,

Oz

 

[BadKharma]

Hmmm.........intriguing, normally you should receive 1 short post beep anytime the computer starts up.
1 Short Beep Normal POST, computer is ok.
The problem you are having because it had a continuous long beep following the initial beep could be:
Continuous Beep No Power, Loose Card, or Short.

What GPU are you using? Some cards require more power than a standard power supply delivers and could be causing your problem.
You may need to buy an inexpensive continuity tester and check each and every wired connection from the MOBO to the case for shorts.
Additionally you could try removing the video card and using the on board GPU to see if the video card is the culprit.