It looks like your motherboard may have taken the clout as well then.
Try testing with another PSU if possible if you're still getting nothing then it's safe to assume the board has died as well.
I just hope you don't have an Asus motherboard, I sent one of those for a repair and it got lost in Russia for 8 months.
Sounds like PSU to me.
Alright, everything turned out better than expected. Bought a new PSU and have everything hooked up. There is no damage to my motherboard, no damage to the CPU, no damage to anything but the old PSU itself, which upon further inspection is completely fried. from the looks of it, the guys who built it installed it in such a way that it was getting next to nothing for ventilation; leading to the heat problem which of course lead to its inevitable death. Thanks for the help guys, I now have an even better idea on what I'm doing thanks to this past week. Though, while it's an overall improvement, I still can't computer; so I'll of course have more questions in the future.
Just ordered one of these.
Price I paid was around £40 give or take a few pennys to replace my old Belnea screen from back in early 05.
Anyone had experience with Acer screens before?
Pick me, pick me!
I have a 22" 1680x1050 Acer monitor. It's attached to my kitchen PC. I believe the model is the X223w. Good colours, no dead pixels, even light distribution and best of all: 16:10 aspect ratio. Have not had a single issue with it. Build quality is solid, but nothing special.
I thought someone here might have used an Acer display, wasn't sure who though.
I've been checking up some details and if the spec's I've been given are correct, then it seems this monitor may have been a bargain.
According to several sites this display has a contrast of "8000000:1 (ACM) Contrast Ratio".
Usually I'm well kept up to date on computer hardware but I must admit, I don't keep myself up to date on displays, on your display are the range of colours any good?
Reason I ask is my current display is starting to fade in terms of the colours displayed, even with messing with the options plus there's faint "static" like fuzz on the screen if you look hard enough.
All I'm really looking for is whether Acer are a good reputable maker of monitors like they seem to be for laptops.
Good news and bad news.
Good news: Acer makes monitors better today than they did 5 years ago. I don't hear more dead pixel complaints on their monitors than the competitors these days. The problem is that they are still low spec monitors, but they are cheap. You're not gonna get good contrast ratios with most Acer monitors.
Bad news: Acer is the worst possible company to buy a laptop from (and their Gateway and eMachines divisions). Their stuff is just absolutely junk. It falls apart within 4 months from regular use. Acer is in no way possible a reputable laptop manufacturer. They use cheap components to keep prices low on laptops that have many more features than well made laptops that are from better manufacturers (Toshiba, Samsung, Lenovo). My sister got a Gateway laptop in early April against my warnings. The thing is basically falling apart and she's kicking herself now. My friend in Ottawa bought a Gateway last August before heading off to university. Before a month even ended since he got the thing, the bordering around the trackpad and buttons came off and the buttons became loose. All plastic too. Just really shoddy components all around.
The only type of laptop that Acer makes very well are their netbooks. Those little guys are made of fucking brushed metal. How is it that they don't do that for mid-range price laptops?
If you're after something that's going to display 97% of the Adobe RGB gamut and if you're hoping for an IPS panel, look elsewhere. This is not a professional panel. That said, as a monitor, the colours are not faded, the contrast is in-line with what I expect out of a matte LCD display, and there is no static.Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
Double post, because it's necessary.
So, I need a new computer. Again. My last build went up in blue smoke; that was partly my fault, and partly the motherboard's fault. Now, it's irrelevant. I have no idea which parts are salvageable apart from the hard drive and the DVD drive. CPU and RAM might be, but I have no way of testing them. I'm not inclined to buy a bunch of expensive parts on the assumption that I can reuse those components. So? I am building a new rig.
I intend to build an X58 system. Sandy Bridge doesn't offer any features that I care to take advantage of, and Nehalem's performance is almost at clock-for-clock parity with it. I want the full 36 lanes of PCI Express, which is why I am choosing it over the Z68 platform. I also want the triple-channel memory. Know that I've done my homework. What I want is a second opinion on my choice of parts, rather than an opinion on the platform.
So, here's the build:
CPU - i7 950 3.06GHz
Motherboard - ASUS Rampage III Formula X58 LGA 1366
RAM - G.Skill Ripjaws 12GB (3 x 4GB) DDR3 1333: CAS 7-7-7-21
GPU - Sapphire Radeon HD6970 2GB x2 (using in Crossfire)
HDD - 1TB WD Caviar Black 7200rpm 32MB Cache
And a maybe buy:
SSD - SanDisk Ultra SDSSDH-G25 120GB
The SSD is not a high priority. I require a machine that can play BF3. I bought it, but I cannot play it with my current computer.
Thoughts?
Have fun.
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