Posts by wolfien

oky well the best troubleshoot you could do is that.

1. Take everything apparts.. remove the mother board from the case.

2. Put the mother board on a safe spot.. like on some wood surface or on a antstatic bag.

3. Plug only the power, cpu, ram and the pc speaker, try to start it up ( you can short the 2 pins where u plug the power switch with a small screw driver )

4. NORMALY it should beep to tell you that the video card is absent. (unless you have one onboard )

5. Plug your graphic card and your monitor.. start it up.
If it doesn't start at that point.. there's a serious problem...

Check jumper / dip switch IF you have any one it...

make sure the CMOS reset jumper is on the right position.. in case it would be in "reset" position that would be your problem ;)

6. If it starts, add ONE after the other each of you peripheral...
you should find the problem that way..

hope it helped you

wolfien-

Ok, Ive figured out this much, when the harddrive is connected to motherboard it doesnt run, same for the CD drive, when I dissconect them they run fine, just not connected to motherboard :\ I am pretty sure that it is the motherboard, is it that they arnt compatable or is it the motherboard being screwed up?

I never saw any incompatibility issue with cd or hd on a motherboard...
it COULD be the jumper.. make sure your HD is set on master.. and try maybe using a different ide port for your CD. ( master as well on the second ide )
Don't use cable select thing.. It might screw up things...

If you have the posibility to test the power supply either on another computer or with a powersupply tester.

well I install all the computer with the same key ( as my automated windows installation is working now ) but when Im in windows I just change it... Save me a LOTSSSSSSSSSS of time ;)

I tought about using Sysprep to do a clean clone (without the hardware config) but then again.. its would be easier to upgrade the version of the program im "auto installing" if I would have it on a cd... with sysprep I would have to redo a clean install with all the new softare and THEN write that...

anyways I've some times during the next day to figure it out.. ;)

If I comes up with an answer Im gonna post an how to... ;)

wolfien-

you can try to boot the mobo out of the case in the eventuality where u could have a bad contact under the board.

you can try to boot the computer w/o rams as well if you dont even have a post code beep ( assuming your pc speaker is plug in ) then it might be a dead motherboard

wolfien-

oky while waiting for a reply i push my search a little further.. i found some tools provided by microsoft to do that and also winnt.sif creator.. wich helped me a lot.. now only one issue still to resolve..

is there any ways to automaticly install program while doing the windows setup?

Like i ALWAYS install my alcohol 120%.. nero.. google toolbar etc etc?

thx.

wolfien-

Hi!
Im quite used with installing windows xp and all the other version.. and actually I work at a computer store where I've to do it like 10 times a day or more...

I've already seen somewhere that you can automate all the setup ( IE. keyboard layout.. timezone.. cd key.. etc etc ). So the only thing you do is you boot the cd.. and the 30 mins later you come back and windows is install and running.. so my question,.. i've absolutly no clues how to do that.. I guess its about creating a .inf and wrinting it on the cd.. but how...?

Anyone could direct me to a FAQ or a site where I could obtain theses informations? Or better.. a link with a program that could do that? ;)

thx.

wolfien-