Hello all, I'm hoping you can help me out.
I purchased a new PSU and GPU for my IBM thinkcentre 8189 today, after installing the PSU (with old GPU still in the machine) I am getting a POST error.
I re-connected the old PSU and the machine booted right up. I then removed the two ram sticks (1 gig each) and got the same POST error as with the new PSU, which led me to believe I have a RAM voltage issue. I tried to find a ram voltage setting in the bios, but it appears that IBM Bios doesn't allow that adjustment...
old setup (which works)
IBM Thinkcentre 8189
2x 1 gig ddr (400ghz but clocked down to 266 which is mobo cap)
Hipro 230w power supply
P4 2.8 ghz cpu
new setup (which doesn't work)
replace above PSU with Antec earthwatts 500w power supply
With the new PSU the power light comes on, heatsink warms up on the mobo, fans turn, dvd drive lights up and hard drive undocks (although the hd light doesn't come on). I have double checked all connections (20 pin and 4 pin mobo, hard drive, optical drive, floppy drive etc) to no avail. any ideas? I need to get this PSU working in order to upgrade gpu to radeon 3450 hd (which seems like the best unit i can get for the AGP slot I've got available). Please help!
Thanks,
Arclight
I purchased a new PSU and GPU for my IBM thinkcentre 8189 today, after installing the PSU (with old GPU still in the machine) I am getting a POST error.
I re-connected the old PSU and the machine booted right up. I then removed the two ram sticks (1 gig each) and got the same POST error as with the new PSU, which led me to believe I have a RAM voltage issue. I tried to find a ram voltage setting in the bios, but it appears that IBM Bios doesn't allow that adjustment...
old setup (which works)
IBM Thinkcentre 8189
2x 1 gig ddr (400ghz but clocked down to 266 which is mobo cap)
Hipro 230w power supply
P4 2.8 ghz cpu
new setup (which doesn't work)
replace above PSU with Antec earthwatts 500w power supply
With the new PSU the power light comes on, heatsink warms up on the mobo, fans turn, dvd drive lights up and hard drive undocks (although the hd light doesn't come on). I have double checked all connections (20 pin and 4 pin mobo, hard drive, optical drive, floppy drive etc) to no avail. any ideas? I need to get this PSU working in order to upgrade gpu to radeon 3450 hd (which seems like the best unit i can get for the AGP slot I've got available). Please help!
Thanks,
Arclight