posted 09-22- 09:47 PM               

AMD 1.4 ghz Athalon processor
ECS K7S5A Motherboard
Apacer PC133 ram 256 mb
Diamond Viper V770 32 mb graphics card (I know it's old, but I want to get everthing else updated first)
Creative 52X speed CDRom
Antec pp-303x 300 watt power supply

My problem is that when I go to start it up, it runs for about 5 seconds and shuts off. The monitor never turns on. The fans all start and the light on the CDRom turns on. I'm thinking maybe it's the power supply. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted 09-23- 04:42 AM               

I only get the problem you're having if I overclock the m/b too much, so maybe make sure that any jumpers for clocking are set right.

Clear the CMOS with the onboard jumper to make sure there's not something in there giving you a problem.

Check the mounting of the CPU, make sure you've put it in the right way round.

I think most other things have been listed, but I feel it'll be something simple rather than a dead part.

Good luck!

posted 09-23- 10:18 AM               

For Vahnatai,

I know some of this stuff needs to be updated. I only had a certain amount of money to spend, and I wanted to get a good foundation set with some horsepower under the hood. A GEForce3 would do no good on my present system anyway (450 mhz AMD K6-2), so why waste my money at this time.

jgro

posted 09-23- 12:05 PM               

You MUST now remove the heatsink from your CPU and take the CPU out, clean all the grease off it (if it has a heat patch on the heatsink, remove it and clean that aswell) Buy yourself some Artic Silver 2 compound and put a thin coat over the core of the cpu only and place back onto the M/B, then replace the cleaned heatsink and fan very very carefully, the sink must be fitted perfectly level with the core of the CPU and it's not uncommon for them not to be fitted properly with the core being so small now (take great care when doing this for 2 reasons, 1. to make sure you have it fitted perfectly, 2. because the core is very easy to damage if you try to hard).

Jumperless Boards and AMD - Your voltage can only be correct. The BIOS reads the core voltage from how the CPU is hard wired (L6), unless you have used certain overclocking methods then you can't change this, so this cannot be the problem here.

From what you're telling us, this IMO must be heat releated, and best to do what I said above. If this doesn't help, then thats one major thing off the list.

posted 09-23- 03:01 PM               

I am also thinking of getting the same CPU, motherboard, and power supply you have but decided to wait for the new Athlons coming out. They require 20% less power than the current Athlons.

posted 09-26- 09:08 AM               

are you absolutely sure you haven't got a 1.4 ?

The thing is with AMD you need to tell your bios that your bus speed is 133 instead of 100: it will not detect it automatically. I personnaly got a 1.33 and had the same feeling as you when I first booted it up: I thought I had "only" a 1 Gig processor !

So, if your computer speed is listed as something like 1052 MHz, it is absolutely normal; just change the bus speed in your bios and you will get 1400.

You can double check it by looking directly at the processor: it should be written 1.4 somewhere on it.

posted 09-26- 10:05 AM               

I did check the number on the processor, it's a 1 ghz. When I called the place that I bought it from, they checked the serial number against their inventory and they confirmed that it was a 1 ghz.