Caveat Lector: This Post Ain't Gonna Be PC
So I decided to keep up with the Joneses in the PC arena. Well maybe keep up with their second cousins twice removed or something, since I don't have the googles of dough to grab the latest AMD or Intel incarnation. That and the microsecond I procure it, it is already obsolete, so why bother. I'll get something that is a decent upgrade to my current rigs. Man and my current rigs are years years old. You'd think a geek like me would be up to standards with everything. You know what, I'm not. Oh well. So I decided to spend around $400 or something to grab me some parts and slap together a decent video editing PC, you know something faster than my Athlon 1.1 dinosaur. Here are my specs if you're interested.
ENLIGHT EN-7180AK DESKTOP W/150W MICRO ATX
MAXTOR 200GB SATA150 7200RPM 16MB
AOPEN DUW-1616 16X DUAL,DOUBLE LAYER DVD REWRITABLE DRIVE
CHAINTECH NVIDIA FX5200 128MB DDR 8XAGP W/TV
ABIT KV-80 BUNDLE W/ RETAILED & AMD SEMPRON 3100+ - PALERMO; CRUCIAL 1GB DDR400
Should be decent right, you know. Anything's gotta be better than what I have right now. Boy howdy I slap this thing together tonight, and it looks like I overlooked the simple fact that my cheap little microatx power supply won't be able handle the Abit with the new ATX12V 2.01 power connector that was introduced with the Pentium 4 for more power. This adds a little 4 pin 12v connector on the motherboard, and you need a power supply that supports this new Pentium 4 power standard. Man I've been living in a cave. Silly me. Me and my silly 150 watts. Oversight, I guess I didn't do enough research. I had everything down but the most important thing everyone of those things need: POW-AH. So I guess I'll have to plunk down a couple Simoleans for a decent power supply. Maybe a new shiny ATX to go with that might as well. This micro one I worked with is just too fricking cramped to be comfortable. It's like that Tiny House Geico commercial. Cracks me up.
So long story short, at first I thought I messed up my install, you know, memory that wasn't seated properly etc etc. Fact that the CPU started up, but the monitor didn't turn on and didn't do the POST (Power On Self Test) yadda. I took the non-essentials out and just tried the motherboard, CPU and 1 stick o' RAM, but no cigar. Tried on a 300 watt power supply I had, but no. So my best bet is try a new power supply. A forum I went to said that the latest ABIT (go Taiwan motherboards!) require that that 4 pin I talked about be plugged in, so I believe that is the next course of action. Also read that it also has to be more than 20 amps of the 12 volt rail for the kind of motherboard I have (Socket 754) or it might not work. Anyways, so that's that for now. Not that you care or anything, I'm just unfocused blabbing. My usual. Sorry. Wait why do I have to be sorry. This is my dang blog. I'm not sorry. So that's the current story Rory, hope you're not bory. If you are go watch Maury. I gotta get me some sleep.
ENLIGHT EN-7180AK DESKTOP W/150W MICRO ATX
MAXTOR 200GB SATA150 7200RPM 16MB
AOPEN DUW-1616 16X DUAL,DOUBLE LAYER DVD REWRITABLE DRIVE
CHAINTECH NVIDIA FX5200 128MB DDR 8XAGP W/TV
ABIT KV-80 BUNDLE W/ RETAILED & AMD SEMPRON 3100+ - PALERMO; CRUCIAL 1GB DDR400
Should be decent right, you know. Anything's gotta be better than what I have right now. Boy howdy I slap this thing together tonight, and it looks like I overlooked the simple fact that my cheap little microatx power supply won't be able handle the Abit with the new ATX12V 2.01 power connector that was introduced with the Pentium 4 for more power. This adds a little 4 pin 12v connector on the motherboard, and you need a power supply that supports this new Pentium 4 power standard. Man I've been living in a cave. Silly me. Me and my silly 150 watts. Oversight, I guess I didn't do enough research. I had everything down but the most important thing everyone of those things need: POW-AH. So I guess I'll have to plunk down a couple Simoleans for a decent power supply. Maybe a new shiny ATX to go with that might as well. This micro one I worked with is just too fricking cramped to be comfortable. It's like that Tiny House Geico commercial. Cracks me up.
So long story short, at first I thought I messed up my install, you know, memory that wasn't seated properly etc etc. Fact that the CPU started up, but the monitor didn't turn on and didn't do the POST (Power On Self Test) yadda. I took the non-essentials out and just tried the motherboard, CPU and 1 stick o' RAM, but no cigar. Tried on a 300 watt power supply I had, but no. So my best bet is try a new power supply. A forum I went to said that the latest ABIT (go Taiwan motherboards!) require that that 4 pin I talked about be plugged in, so I believe that is the next course of action. Also read that it also has to be more than 20 amps of the 12 volt rail for the kind of motherboard I have (Socket 754) or it might not work. Anyways, so that's that for now. Not that you care or anything, I'm just unfocused blabbing. My usual. Sorry. Wait why do I have to be sorry. This is my dang blog. I'm not sorry. So that's the current story Rory, hope you're not bory. If you are go watch Maury. I gotta get me some sleep.
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