Greetings all,
I have just built a system using some components I have left over from the past. It's the first time I built one totally from scratch (ie, including motherboard installation) and it was an interesting experience. I am having a couple problems though and as most of the components have been unused in the past I have no idea what might be causing them (if they are problems at all).
First, I have a Sapphire HD 4830 card in the system. When I press the power button to get the system started, a LED that is on the "top" side of it (not the side with the fan) flashes a few times. If I read the letters on the card correctly, those are LEDs about "OVER TEMP PROTECTION".
At the same time it appears that the fan gets started and its speed fluctuates. It then stabilises. Until then, the screen is blank. Once the fan gets properly going and the LEDs stop flashing, the system boots and the screen comes alive. This whole process takes about 12 seconds.
As a Nvidia user in the past, I wonder if 1) this is normal with the LED flashing and 2) this whole thing is the substitute of the time a Nvidia would have you looking at the screen telling you the card's bios and watching it check its RAM size (the more RAM the longer it took - it did take 11.5 seconds with my 7600GT AGP at 256 MB). Is the screen blank in the case of ATIs?
As a side question, I wonder if it would be normal for my keyboard's numlock light to be illuminated and able to be turned on and off from the keyboard even the computer is powered off (with the PSU switch on the I position and the keyboard connected). I haven't noticed this on any of my other computers but here it looks like it...
System specs
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (old I know but does its job)
alternating between AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and 4200+ X2
Sapphire HD 4830
Enermax 525W Modu82+
Thanks for all the help you can provide.
I have just built a system using some components I have left over from the past. It's the first time I built one totally from scratch (ie, including motherboard installation) and it was an interesting experience. I am having a couple problems though and as most of the components have been unused in the past I have no idea what might be causing them (if they are problems at all).
First, I have a Sapphire HD 4830 card in the system. When I press the power button to get the system started, a LED that is on the "top" side of it (not the side with the fan) flashes a few times. If I read the letters on the card correctly, those are LEDs about "OVER TEMP PROTECTION".
At the same time it appears that the fan gets started and its speed fluctuates. It then stabilises. Until then, the screen is blank. Once the fan gets properly going and the LEDs stop flashing, the system boots and the screen comes alive. This whole process takes about 12 seconds.
As a Nvidia user in the past, I wonder if 1) this is normal with the LED flashing and 2) this whole thing is the substitute of the time a Nvidia would have you looking at the screen telling you the card's bios and watching it check its RAM size (the more RAM the longer it took - it did take 11.5 seconds with my 7600GT AGP at 256 MB). Is the screen blank in the case of ATIs?
As a side question, I wonder if it would be normal for my keyboard's numlock light to be illuminated and able to be turned on and off from the keyboard even the computer is powered off (with the PSU switch on the I position and the keyboard connected). I haven't noticed this on any of my other computers but here it looks like it...
System specs
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (old I know but does its job)
alternating between AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and 4200+ X2
Sapphire HD 4830
Enermax 525W Modu82+
Thanks for all the help you can provide.