MSI Neo2 Platinum + AMD 3200+ skt 939

Greetings all,
Can someone please offer some guidance to save my sanity:-0

3 day old PC - MSI Neo2 Platinum Mainboard with AMD 3200+ skt 939, 512mb
Corsair Value Select 3200, 400ddr.
Because I'm waiting for the new 64bit OS [one can live in hope ] decided to
stick with Win 98 for the moment.

Been having instability problems from the outset with AOpen DVD drive only
starting up sometimes .. system hanging sometimes, some ports and power
switches only working sometimes.

This morning when I switched on there was no display - ie No
Input. After several re-boots - with power off now working and so having to
switch off at mains supply - it booted only to display this msg:
"Warning the system is now in safe mode. Please reset overclocking features
in SETUP MENU"

Have no idea what its going on about ... wouldn't know an overclock from an
under one
Any ideas ...

TIA
--
Kate

--
Kath

Puff Less
*****\o/*****
B-r-e-a-t-h-e M-o-r-e

Guess the first thing is to strip it down to just the basics - PSU,
motherboard, CPU, memory, harddrive, graphics card. See if you can boot
from there.

What PSU are you using? Is it powerful enough for what you are driving?

Check you have the latest bios installed. Do the settings look sensible
for your system?

Guess thats some stuff to check without knowing exactly whats wrong


Kate wrote:
 > Greetings all,
 > Can someone please offer some guidance to save my sanity:-0
 >
 > 3 day old PC - MSI Neo2 Platinum Mainboard with AMD 3200+ skt 939, 512mb
 > Corsair Value Select 3200, 400ddr.
 > Because I'm waiting for the new 64bit OS [one can live in hope ] decided to
 > stick with Win 98 for the moment.
 >
 > Been having instability problems from the outset with AOpen DVD drive only
 > starting up sometimes .. system hanging sometimes, some ports and power
 > switches only working sometimes.
 >
 > This morning when I switched on there was no display - ie No
 > Input. After several re-boots - with power off now working and so having to
 > switch off at mains supply - it booted only to display this msg:
 > "Warning the system is now in safe mode. Please reset overclocking features
 > in SETUP MENU"
 >
 > Have no idea what its going on about ... wouldn't know an overclock from an
 > under one
 > Any ideas ...
 >
 > TIA
 > --
 > Kate
 >
 > --
 > Kath
 >
 > Puff Less
 > *****\o/*****
 > B-r-e-a-t-h-e M-o-r-e
 >
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