Last night, I went to the storeroom and looked out for the unused PC hardwares that were lying in there. I almost had another PC and it’s just that I still lack a CPU chassis to put everything in it.
I have 2 motherbaords, 1 with Intel Pentium 4 3.0 HT which is very noisy on the heatsink fan when turned on and another one has a AMD 64 3000 on it. I have a total of 3.5GB of ram, a 160GB IDE HDD, 2 DVD Drives, 1 400W PSU, 2 wireless card, and a Palit 7300GS 256MB AGP graphic card.
If I fix everything up, I will get another PC at home. I noticed that I got a problem when I took everything out, the motherboard with AMD processor doesn’t has a graphic output, neither does it has a AGP graphic card port. It only has PCI-E and the card that was on it is now on my current PC. This motherboard is a DFI LanParty something something that my brother bought a few years back, which don’t have a graphic output. That’s the problem but some geeks will say this is pro because you need a graphic card to use with it.
As for the other CPU, the P4, I don’t really want to use it because it’s noisy but somehow when I fix everything up, I still got a problem, I lost my manual and I don’t know which jumper to set to turn on the PC. LOL. It doesn’t has a switch like on the DFI LanParty motherboard.
In the end, I keep everything back in the storeroom again. Wasted my time. OMG. I actually wanted to set up another PC to put in my house’s living room for Internet TV like PPS, YouTube and some music streaming at home, but I can’t do it already with all the problems I’ve got.
3 comments
Jian says:
Aug 24, 2009
Hi,
Just search the web and you may find the manual for your motherboard.
Try key in the brand and model of your motherboard. i.e. PM8M-v8H MSI
I have got it for you:
the product page @ MSI:
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=205
and the manual download page:
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=manual&maincat_no=1&prod_no=205
enjoy DIYing:)
For your CPU, please try use WD40 to clean it and reduce the noise…
BTW: Which Camera are you using? is it a Minolta? I like the color
Nicholas Chan says:
Aug 25, 2009
Jian:
Thanks for the tip. Now only I Know about the WD40, gonna get one to clean my current C2D too, it comes pretty noisy on a hot day. I am using the Canon EOS400D, i mounted a flash when taking the photos. =)
Secret says:
Sep 7, 2009
You still cannot use your P4 computer ??