so I get this new computer, assemble it and turn this sucker on.
first, the fans go on and... nothing. the keyboard doesn't receive any power and the monitor shows no signal.
so then I take out the pcie grfx card and replace it with an old 4mb pci card. everything works now... at least for the first few secands, then the computer turns itself off.

I have

Machspeed msnv-939 with a amd 3800+ x2

EVGA nvidia e-geforce 8500 gt

and a thermaltake tr2-430 PSU

Maybe it tunes it self off if it's idle? not likely...

the first time I startup, after it checks dmi data, I get "invalid boot disk" yata yata... if I ctrl-alt-del to restart it goes normaly until it's time for a boot disk... then it just turns off.

if I let it run the first time (when it's asking for a boot disk) it will turn it's self off in about 25 sec.

so I get this new computer, assemble it and turn this sucker on.
first, the fans go on and... nothing. the keyboard doesn't receive any power and the monitor shows no signal.
so then I take out the pcie grfx card and replace it with an old 4mb pci card. everything works now... at least for the first few secands, then the computer turns itself off.

I have

Machspeed msnv-939 with a amd 3800+ x2

EVGA nvidia e-geforce 8500 gt

and a thermaltake tr2-430 PSU

Maybe it tunes it self off if it's idle? not likely...

the first time I startup, after it checks dmi data, I get "invalid boot disk" yata yata... if I ctrl-alt-del to restart it goes normaly until it's time for a boot disk... then it just turns off.

if I let it run the first time (when it's asking for a boot disk) it will turn it's self off in about 25 sec.

Metriod prime 3

Supreme commander (yeah right)

Freespace3 (ha, ha)

Descent 4

Zelda twilight princess 2

Chrono break

just to name a few.

Hi, I am going to upgrade ram on an old computer of mine. It now has 128mb of ram. should I buy one 512mb, and get rid of the 128mb, or should I just buy 256mb and add that to my 128mb?

Just so you know, I am not going to do any hardcore gamming on it, just very light core.

Here is one for ya: Pentium II 350MHZ

4MB AGP4x ATI Rage Pro

20GB HDD

all in a Dell OptiPlex GX1

Note this is not my slowest Rig.

this is:

Pentium 66Mhz

32Mb of RAM

6GB HDD

2mb pci Graphics

Yeah that is what I call a gaming Rig.