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PC Chips M848ALU Motherboard Questions & Answers
65W adaptor for laptop not
Most laptops using cpu from the P4 type (or equivalent AMD) on require at least 95 watts. the P4 series of cpu were a bunch of power hungry little devils. But they have got better, 65Watts is fine with most netbooks though. Good luck.
I want to instal a
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Why does my pc restarts itself from time to time
It's is possible the CMOS battery is bad. If you added any additional parts to the computer, Hard drive, video card ect.. the current power supply may not have enough watts to handle the extra load. My personal experience this issue was two. First, there was a problem with my Windows XP system and the second time it was a bad power supply. First make sure you are grounded and check inside the computer case for loose connections. If your not sure if you have enough power from you power supply to handle the PC components click this link "
Cooler Master Power Supply Calculator". If you are not getting any windows error messagess or error codes I would look to the power suppliy first. Hope this helps you.
Memory
no it is suppotr only 2 gb ram not other
PC Chips M848A dead, no screen output or blips
I had the same problem. I bought the M848A from Newegg in an attempt to save my trusty Athlon 2600+ CPU and a fancy Raedon 512mb AGP card which I salvaged out of my old broken down system. I thought it would be a good time to update the RAM so I bought 2 gigs of OCZ 3200 DDR400 to go with.
Problems:
(1) First the damn thing wouldn't boot past the post screen. It would simply cycle thru post over and over. Fixed: The microsoft XPpro operating system was corrupt. The new board hated the old configs from the previous system. After trying (and failing) a os repair, I ended up simply doing a clean intall with great results. Board was stable worked great for a week. Only had one glitch...
(2) The board would only recognize and post ONE of the 2 gigs of ram I bought. I raided all the CMOS settings, and downloaded all the user manuals I could get a hold of and found no answers to this curious problem. On a whim, I opened the case and switched their locations back and forth which led me to...
(3) Lights on, no one home. All the lights came on... power, HDD, cd drives... all the fans worked: case, CPU, graphics card... but the screen would remain blank/unpowered and no post menu would come up. Seemed like it wanted to work, but simply stopped short of booting up. THIS WAS YOUR PROBLEM?!?? On a hunch, (more an angry impulse) I reached over and popped an old Mushkin Technologies (PC 3200 400DDR) 512mb out of my old dead mobo and slammed it solo in the primary memory slot. Bingo. Fired right up.
The board appears to be testy with its RAM... If it fails its initial memory test, it will not post. The screen will not come on. I'm not 100% certain this is the final solution to the problem... I'm still playing with it. My questions now are.... do I have dead RAM? Chip compatibility issues? Perhaps the PC Chips support techs on their website have some practical advice on this issue. I'll keep you posted if you like.
Sound
you have no sound because you did'nt installed sound drivers that comes with pc insert that cd in cd drive then window will open click on audio drivers and next after installation you must restart the pc sound will come
Replaced soyo mobo with pc chips m848, now windows won't load
I just put a PC Chips mobo in my computer. You need to reinstall Windows. Windows is still trying to loa dthe drivers for your old motherboard and is running into brick walls. So it will not load. If there is data on that hard drive that you absolutely must have and can not replace, bring it to a friends house and make a backup. Then reinstall windows, then trasfer back over the files. I am aware of the fact that you can "restore" windows without losing the files. However this option still has currupted filed to the point they are non-readable for me and many other users. Other than that, buy another small hard drive, install windows to it. After that is done, all you have to do is hook up your other hard drive as a secondary hard drive and run the both of them in your computer.
Front panel connections
Hi sjcrofts,
The most common problem for most people is knowing what wire color is positive & which wire color is negative. The colors blue, red, green, light blue, light red & light green are normally positive. The color white & black are negative. Your board uses only 2-pin connectors. The 3-pin power connector can be turned into a 2-pin connector to work with the M848ALU pins.
(Page 13, PANEL1). How to? Take the three pin connector, on the back side of the connector you'll see a small tab that holds the wire into the connector. Use a needle & pull tab up while pulling the wire out at the same time. The wire should slide out. Insert the wire back into the connector next to the other wire. You do not need to hook up the SUS led which stands for suspend.
Pin 1 is positive & the manual shows this by adding the _P = positive.
Pin 3 which is to the right of pin 1, is negative for the hard drive led. Pins 9 & 10 are not used.
Good luck sjcrofts!
Mike
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