Xemu's Long-Winded Game Industry Ramblings

I've now stripped down my entire machine to a motherboard, naked with its guts hanging out, connected minimally to a power supply and a speaker. According to ASUS this is supposed to be able to post and give me a "no CPU" or "no memory" error. I can't even get that. I'm so frustrated. I guess this is why professionals deal with this sort of stuff usually. Well, at least now I can focus my ire on the motherboard. I will naively attempt to get tech support from ASUS on it tomorrow but I'm expecting to have to get a new one...

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Re: Decomposition

by Sean Barrett on Wed 23 Aug 2006 01:57 AM CDT | Permanent Link

I gave up on building my own machines many years ago because of this kind of thing. Unless you have one spare of everything, you're pretty screwed when something goes wrong. (I had a motherboard I thought was bad, but it turned out to be a bad power supply.)

I find it easier to just go ahead and buy a Dell and then upgrade the video card and hard drive.

Re: Decomposition

by Ezin on Wed 23 Aug 2006 02:08 AM CDT | Permanent Link

I've heard of the high end asus motherboards having incompatibilities with certain power supplies (like the antec NeoHe 430). Might be worth a try swapping another one into it.

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