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RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:27:31 GMT

Yippeee, I am so excited and I just can't hide it.

All the problems have gone and it appears to be working fine, that's the Asus off Ricedg, that's even with the old gfx card.

It does have a bad checksum on start, for now I loaded the defaults and I am installing XP.

I won a P4 2.8GHz CPU off ebay (cheapo) it arrived just and I put it in the Asus and away it went. I will have to see if I can find a mobo that is compatible with the D915 as it doesn't want to work in the Asus.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:04:50 GMT

I have tried every combination of the 4 pins with 2 speaker plugs and it just doesn't want to bleep.

Edit:

I just tried it with my ATI 9000 AIW (AGP) and it's still the same, so it's possibly not the GFX card.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:35:18 GMT

Intermittent beeps followed by the f word must mean they are on red.

research show the bios could be ami or award?

RE: PSU swap

-Wiz!- — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:25:52 GMT

A long beep followed by "OI!", normally means the lights are on green...:hehe:

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:17:44 GMT

Thanks for that, I will have to find which one the bios is. On the main page tihs sounds vagely familiar

1long, 3short

No video card or bad video RAM

Reseat or replace the video card.

as it was in a case at one time. But I can't be 100% from memory.

Edit:

For some reason I think it's the Amibios, so I printed the beeps.

RE: PSU swap

Slipstreem — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:09:10 GMT

No probs, John. There's a huge website full of BIOS beep codes [url=http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm]HERE[/url]. Hope it helps. :)

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:05:44 GMT

Thanks slippy, I found a 2wire plug speaker (not the usual 3 or 4) out of a old AT case. It's sad really as I have about 4 speakers somewhere, do you think I can find them.

My eyes aren't what they used to be and I can't see the pin writing, even with my glasses on or a magnifying glass.

I have checked the manual and Asus web, unlike some it doesn't give the pin writing.

I will have to take it in the kitchen tomorrow more light will help.

RE: PSU swap

Slipstreem — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:32:45 GMT

Plug a case speaker in if you have one laying around. You may be able to decipher what the problem is from the beeps. :)

Cheers, Slipstreem. :cool:

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:29:58 GMT

Thanks Dave

No GFX and the board deosn't bleep, but does it have a bleeper. It's not in a case it's on the workbench as always when trying boards.

RE: PSU swap

ricedg — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:21:12 GMT

Could be John.
Take the card out and see if the motherboard beeps when you turn it on.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:03:27 GMT

Just a thought

The Asus has PCIe and AGP slots, I have no cards for these slots and I am using a vey old PCI card (CT6610) could this be causing the non boot problem.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:45:51 GMT

[quote][b]ricedg (25/07/2008)[/b][hr]

Have you connected the 4 pin 12volt line near the CPU socket?
If not, that's the problem.[/quote]

I really wish I hadn't it would be so easy to cure, but I have connected the 4pin plug.

RE: PSU swap

ricedg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:36:27 GMT

Unless your PSU is duff, it really is nothing to do with 24pins or a lack of power.
Trust me, I never used anything more than a generic 300 watt 20pin PSU and it had a mightily overclocked D805 in it.

Have you connected the 4 pin 12volt line near the CPU socket?
If not, that's the problem.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:08:51 GMT

Cheers Mog, PM sent.

I recieved the 20-24pin converter this morning and plugged it into the Asus, it made no difference. I am going to have to wait and see if I can get a bigger wattage PSU that is 24pin + 4 pin.

My own previous experience with these converters, they don't do the job (on some boards). That was with a compaq though, compaq have a mind of there own, I am beginning to think Asus have a mind of there own.

~Edit:

Studying the converter it keeps 2 red wires on the right (using the 4 pins shown in above picture), if I use just the 20pin then this leaves the red pins unused.

RE: PSU swap

mog wilson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:49:57 GMT

Ive cleared it out now john.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:03:30 GMT

Nice one mog, that'll do nicely I love a challenge.

I was going to PM you but your box is full and needs emptying before you can recieve anymore PMs

If you are unsure (or anyone else, some are) how to do this, heres my tut.

At the top of the forum / Control panel (down the left Private messsages) / inbox, tick the little white box / go to the bottom and select move to deleted items. Do the same with your sent box, then select (down the left) empty PM folders then tick Deleted items / empty selected.

If you already know it pays to keep your eye on it, to save times like this when I can't PM you.

RE: PSU swap

mog wilson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:39:18 GMT

Im due to recieve a new mobo soon which means il have a faulty P5KC available if you want it, I cant put my finger on whats wrong with and ive swapped the CPU/Ram etc and i still get an overclocking failed message.

You might be able to do something with it.

( I have a sneaking suspicion that my heavyweight Zalman cooler keeps unseating the CPU)

warm regards

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:27:17 GMT

There is a 4 pin CPU socket on the mobo. I will no more as time goes on. The thermal wasn't a problem I would rather of left it on but I wanted a sneak at the numbers. I got some off ebay then when I went to put the heatsink on there was some on that so I had double on and still took off what I had off ebay.

Tis all fun and a challenge.

RE: PSU swap

mog wilson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:10:07 GMT

Its a D915 2.8 C1 revision(i think), , sorry about the thermal gunk john i was a bit lazy.

warm regards
I have to ask but is there an ATX12v cpu connector on that mobo?

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:33:50 GMT

[quote][b]ricedg (24/07/2008)[/b][hr]300 watt is more than enough,

Not sure how you tell what D915 you have.[/quote]

That's nice to know the 300w is enough, thanks for the link according to it there is only a D915 no paticular one? I did once note the numbers on it. to do this I had to wipe the thermal off, then I had none (had to get some more) so i don't want to wipe it off. If ever I get it fired I will see what PCW says.

Maybe mog may know, if he checks this thread at all.

Cheers Wiz

I checked all the 2.8 and it showed D920 etc then this one said 915

http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL9DA.html

Edit: Sadly I can't see any mention of what Dave suggested

(revD0,without VT function).

RE: PSU swap

-Wiz!- — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:31:20 GMT

Goto Cpu world.

http://www.cpu-world.com/

RE: PSU swap

ricedg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:23:26 GMT

300 watt is more than enough, it's all it had here.

It does support the D915 http://tinyurl.com/5dn9bd but it specifiically states (revD0,without VT function).
Not sure how you tell what D915 you have.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:55 GMT

[quote][b]ricedg (24/07/2008)[/b][hr]It's not the fact that it's 20 pin, although it could be the PSU.
Could be many things.[/quote]

It looks like I have my work cut out, checking on the Asus site it specifys DDR 400/333 ram

I have a stick of DDR-SDRAM PC-3200 (200 MHz) - [DDR-400] but it's not bleeping at me. I was looking at the recommended CPU it says, Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU
Dual-Core CPU I can't see anything spacific to a D915.

I am thinking (as yo usay) the PSU itself, it's only 300w maybe not enough to push the P5VD1-X.

If the converter doesn't work I will have to see about a 24pin + 4pin 500w PSU.

RE: PSU swap

ricedg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:53:32 GMT

It's not the fact that it's 20 pin, although it could be the PSU.
Could be many things.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:10:41 GMT

I have tried and nothing going cheers Compaq2

It sounds like the HDD spins and stops, something is clicking either the rom or HDD?

RE: PSU swap

compaq2 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:04:25 GMT

As Dave says your 20 pin plus will work, just line it up with the connector.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:54:39 GMT

Cheers Dave, I tried the 20 pin, the board starts and the drives just keep clicking that's all I get.

The 20 pin will only fit one way and I am not sure if it'll be the correct side.

To the top of this thread is forward to the CPU

I managed to get a 20-24pin converter off ebay and will try again when that arrives.

RE: PSU swap

ricedg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:52:03 GMT

Use your existing PSU John, it it will do the job.
I do it all the time when I only have a 20 pin PSU handy (just emergencies now).

The extra 4 pns provide supplementary power to the pci-e slot.
Any graphics card that needs extra power always has it's own way of connecting to the PSU, so it's a bit redundant.

RE: PSU swap

johnbarry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:18:10 GMT

Thanks Wiz, I will have to get one.

RE: PSU swap

-Wiz!- — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:45:23 GMT

I have used the converters before successfully. :)

PSU swap

johnbarry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:35:30 GMT

It may be a lot to ask, but I thought I would ask.

Ricedg kindly gave me a Asus P5VD1-X Motherboard to help with the CPU Mog Wilson gave me.

I came to set it up only to find it needs a 24pin + 4pin PSU, I have a 20pin + 4pin PSU. I have in the past tried a 20 - 24pin converter without success, I no longer have it for a quick test.

Anyone got a 24pin + 4pin PSU they don't need and would swap me for my

Pro-V Switching Power Supply 20pin + 4pin.

Model ATX-300

Max output 300w

Or even swap for my 149w 20pin PSU.

Edit:

After posting the above and thinking about it, it doesn't seem ethical for you to pay postage and me to pay postage, or for me to pay postage and return your postage.

Or maybe someone knows for a fact a 20-24 pin converter will work on the above board.

Maybe not a good idea to swap. Perhaps a mod can remove this thread.