ok so I got an MSI P4 motherboard. I got the DDR ram that it suggests in the manual, I bought a 300 watt powersupply because the manual suggests a 300 or up.
The computer has a pentium 4 intel processor.
I am using an IDE drive right now that is from 1996-97 it is like 20 gbs.
Anyway, when I turn the power on to my computer it will start but only go to one screen that shows it detects the hard drive and the disk drives. Then it says "WARNING! CMOS has been reset, please verify settings in Setup." and I press f1 and on the keyboard and the screen goes completely blank, it has only gone to the setup page once, but then froze.
When it resets, there is usually a wierd clicking sound coming from the motherboard from near where the power switch plugs into the motherboard, and where the CMOS reset jumper is.
Can anyone help? Anyone have this happen before?
2007-02-01 06:07:06 · 3 answers · asked by Apples and Mapples 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
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2007-02-01 06:25:26 · update #1
The motherboard has SATA hookups. Do you have to have a SATA drive?
2007-02-01 06:26:36 · update #2
I would get at least a 450 W power supply. I had something similar like that happen, and when I upgraded it fixed a lot of problems.
2007-02-01 06:11:19 · answer #1 · answered by Han J Solo 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
a lot of the new inexpensive motherboards are bad right out of the box
2007-02-01 14:11:03 · answer #2 · answered by furmanator1957 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
second slave must be enable huh? should be only cdrom drive and your harddrive
2007-02-01 14:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋