My mobo has died!!

[amitk]

Hello... just thought i'd post this there so that i can get some sympathy lol jokes....
anyway, i had bought a new case for my comp so i was moving everthing from my old case to it... now, when i start my comp it says the CPU is unworkable or changed... aparrently its happend to loads of people.. the mobo is the Abit IC7-Max3.... so now i have to buy a new mobo... thats all bad but what makes it worse is that my current graphics card is AGP and all of the new mobos only support PCI-E and i dont have enough money to get both a new graphics card and a new mobo so im stuck... looks like i need to buy a new mobo then!!

Amit

[Norphy]

If you're coming to the LAN, I have an MSI 875P Neo2 FISR you can buy off me. Its missing its heatsink retention bracket so you'll have to use the heatsink thats on the board at the moment but otherwise its fine

[amitk]

hmm... sounds good... how much would you sell it for? i need to get it befor the event and make sure i have enough to get watercooling radiator... thanks
Amit

btw i've added you on MSN

[Oysterizer]

I've had that error when the default BIOS settings are not suitable/incorrect for the CPU or it has not been auto-detected correctly. Try going into the BIOS and setting the correct CPU speed/multipliers etc..and dont forget the bus speed.

Then again you've probably all ready tryied that so i'll keep quiet

oyst.

[soulcrow]

If this hasn't been solved, then you need to update the bios, we have had this problem at work a few times, and this seems to fix the problem

[amitk]

w00tage!!!!!! my comp is back up!!! turns out there was a problem with the RAM and not the mobo at all! anyway, in the process of trying to get it to work, my graphics card broke farewell AIW 9800... so anyway, i bought a 6600 yesterday im yet to test it in a game yet as im still reinstallin windows and all but i should be all ready for llama!!