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[FearedPixel]

erm :E

my pc arrived! big yays! muhahahah!

anyway, so far, i installed the processor (duron 700), hsf, gfxcard and the ram onto my abit kt7.

all ive done so far is put the things in, but ive not touched any jumpers etc. i connected the mobo to the psu, and thats it.

can someone tell me what i should de before i turn it on ? what jumpers i need to change etc? anything else i need to put in to just get it working initially?

thank you :E

[FearedPixel]

oh, and i also plugged in the little reset, power, hdd and power switch connector things. dunno if they are the right way.
can you plug them in any way ?

[The_Wise]

Right look in the manual (i know is against all common practise) there will be a section with jumpers, find your chip and do that, and there will also be a diagram somewhere with the power + led's things etc. you might get some funny things happen if you have them wrong (or probably nothing at all).

Oh if the motherboard is jumperless u don't need to do that bit.

[Gadget]

The connectors for power switch and reset switch can go either way round. The led connectors need to be the right way round, but having em round the wrong way won't cause any damage. When you fire your pc up just check to see if the leds light up when you'd expect em to....if not, power off and turn the connectors round.

[FearedPixel]

its looking good .. kinda, i managed to boot it, and it works! since i dont have anything else in it, it stops at the no booteable disk bit. I dont have a atx keyboard atm, so i couldnt do anything, but it works :P

the only thing which doesnt work is reset. when i press reset, it turns off the comp. and then i cant turn it on with the power switch. and sometimes i can turn it on, but cant turn it off with the power switch... is there a slight chance that i have the connector things the wrong way around :E?

I got a kt7, which is jumperless btw :).

but apart from that, everything seems fine. I managed to insteall the heatsinkfan, which i thought would be impossible after all the horror stories i heard about em.

im gonna buy an at to atx ps/2 adaptor today, and hopefully i can move on with the process then ...

cheers fer the help :E

[ybw]

When the power switch doesnt work when you press it, hold it in for 4 seconds(some l33t ATX thingy, i dunno :)).

Just built my duron sys last night. Globalwin 802 case ownz :)


Andy

[FearedPixel]

On the little connector things for the leds and reset/power switch things, there is an S with a little arrow above it on one side. does this mean that the pin above it is pin 1, so i should plug it into pin 1 on the mobo?

[ybw]

I generally take that as pin 1.
Been right so far :)

They wouldn't mark pin 2, as that would just be stupid.

Andy

[Uranium]

:dance:

[FearedPixel]

ok, my first problem arrived.

its with my ibm deskstar 75gxp 15.3 gig

i managed to get it to detect etc, started fdisk, create new partition, and at the bit where its verifying drive integrity, its making this very weird scratching and moving noise, and the verifying drive integrity process keeps going up a few %, then back to 0%

anyone know whats up?

[FearedPixel]

ok, problem solved. i bet you wanna know how i solved it. well heres how:

I turned my PC upside down

[Calzor Suzay]

couldn't you just of mounted the HD the other way up :naughty:

[FearedPixel]

Well, actually i dont think turning it upside down made the difference, coz it should be the right way up as it was. the product sticker should be on top right? and the sticker with the jumper setting should be facing the right way right?

even after turning it upside down, the noise didnt go away, its this scratching and knocking and 'scanning' noise. hard to describe, but doesnt sound natural to me(compared to my previous hdd).

and the bed things seem to be, that its very slow.

i havent confirmed this, but installing windows seems to take bloody ages (i know, it alaways does, but its taking longer now)

afaik the 75gxp is a v good hdd, so i wouldnt expect things like this from it.

[Calzor Suzay]

It shouldn't matter which way up you mount it anyway, the heads that read the platters are on the topside and underside anyway. I assume you've gone through all the usual checks thats its running at ata100 and depending on the motherboard there are drivers for the controller cards to speed things up, dunno on the Abit KT7 :( I know Intel recently released some new drivers for the i815 chipset.

Win98 takes on average just over an hour to install from start to finish.

[Calzor Suzay]

Also not sure about the sounds as I don't have one of those drives...yet! :E me ultra wide scsi2 does me for now :)

[FearedPixel]

ok, im almost sure the hdd is faulty now.

scandisk found bad sectors everywhere, and scandisk takes so long, i cant even wait for it to finish with all the sectors. The sound it makes is impossible to be natural, and everything takes very long to do on it. (except formatting, it didnt make the noise when formatting, and it wasnt slow either)

when i quite scandisk, it says at least one are of the harddisk has sustained physical damage, and to back up all my files etc.

can anyone recomend anything before i phone dabs ?

[FearedPixel]

and one more thing, ive not touched any of my multiplier/fsb stuff, and it defaults to 6*100 (600 Mhz), when i ordered a 700mhz duron.

did i get ripped off by dabs coz they sold my a 600mhz instead of a 700, or am i missing something ?

[Calzor Suzay]

Dunno about the Duron but the HD if making weird scatching sounds is probably the heads scraping the platter then, normally they float microns above the surface so if it's been dropped hard then it may of been damaged although this only tends to be when it's on and you bang it as normally when you power down the armature moves across out of the way of the platters.

IBM drives have an excellent warranty so you shouldn't have any problems getting it replaced.