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schi0249 - Oct 6, 2005

		schi0249		Oct 6, 2005
			I was experiencing some very intermittent system crashes, resulting in a reboot. I popped open my case and noticed my chipset fan was dead. I swapped out the fan, and now I get nothing. I have removed all cards, cables, and memory. The only thing plugged in the my CPU (an Athlon XP 2800+). I get no beep tones. The CPU fan does power up. I was thinking the system board is probably dead. What do you pros think? My board is a Socket A nForce 2 from Gigabyte. If so, I am going to need to replace it. I was checking out New Egg...; what would you all recommend? Thanks for the help.

		mal		Oct 6, 2005
			It does sound like it's dead. I've recently had my nForce2 board go a bit weird as well and I'm taking that as a sign that it's time to upgrade to an AMD64 - albeit to a motherboard with AGP rather than PCI-E.

		schi0249		Oct 10, 2005
			So I my system board is toast. I have limited funds, so I am only replacing that. I have narrowed it done to the following board. Any reccomendations/info would be greatly appreciated. * ASUS A7N8X-E DX * MSI K7N2 Delta2 FSR * Albatron KX18DS Pro 2 * ABIT AN7 * ABIT KW7 * ABIT NF7-S2

		it290		Oct 10, 2005
			I don't have personal experience with any of those boards except for the A7N8X, which I have found to be an all around stable and solid board. Brand-wise, I would stay away from Albatron, as I have had problems with their products in the past, but the others are all good. I am using an MSI board (K7S5A) currently and it is one of the best and most stable boards I have used. MSI doesn't cater to overclockers though, so if you want those options, look elsewhere.

		lordofduct		Oct 11, 2005
			my body has the Asus A7N8X... good board, nice tweaking and OC capabilities on it.

		it290		Oct 11, 2005
			Damn lord, I always thought you were a bit robotic, but never to that degree!

		lordofduct		Oct 11, 2005
			oh dear... did I really say body? I should learn another language just so I can pretend I actually don't speak english and that would explain the dumb shit I've said in the last 3 years I've been here. I meant buddy

		slinga		Oct 12, 2005
			You should of played it off like you meant to say body and that's wha tall the cool kids down South call their case.

		lordofduct		Oct 12, 2005
			down south computer geeks aren't cool.... they are shunned And when I've posted my computer is a 600 mhz P3 with a geforce ti4200 a few times before, people could easily call me out. well I have another comp... but it still is a P4; not an athlon