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Rigit   01-18-2009 at 04:05:19 AM

I have a computer here with an Athlon 64 3000+ cpu in it. The MB is an MSI K9MM-V. I believe the board is dead. It won't even beep at power up. I want to fix this thing up for my poor starving college kid son. OK he lives here at home so he's not starving.... Anyway, I just want an inexpensive board without sacrificing quality. I know it won't be the fastest over clocking board on earth but that's fine I don't need it to be. I can put the same board back in it I guess. I found one on line for $49.99. But I don't know anything about that board other than it is blown. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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ausch30   01-18-2009 at 06:36:29 AM
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The MSI board you listed is an AM2 board which uses DDR2 and has a AGP slot. This is an unusual configuration so finding a boards to choose from will be difficult. Are you using a AGP video card or the onboard?

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daft   01-18-2009 at 06:36:50 AM
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are you certain the board has gone bad? there is a possibility that your PSU died. higher chance anyway.

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ir_efrem   01-18-2009 at 06:38:38 AM
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] rder=PRICE

Take your pick.. I reccomend Gigabyte or Asus, I've never had a board go bad from either of these companies.

Keep in mind this is personal experience only. I've had Biostar and ECS motherboards flake out though. Other people will have different results.

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ausch30   01-18-2009 at 06:57:41 AM
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ir_efrem wrote :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] rder=PRICE

Take your pick.. I reccomend Gigabyte or Asus, I've never had a board go bad from either of these companies.

Keep in mind this is personal experience only. I've had Biostar and ECS motherboards flake out though. Other people will have different results.



I think you forgot to look and see what board he actually had or read my post, he has a AGP board.
http://www.msicomputer.com/product [...] V&class=mb


There is a Biostar board on that list but it's out of stock and I wouldn't suggest Biostar anyway.


Message edited by ausch30 on 01-18-2009 at 07:00:43 AM
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ir_efrem   01-18-2009 at 07:17:16 AM
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I think the OP forgot to mention what he needs exactly :P

Perhaps I am being a bit fussy though.

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ausch30   01-18-2009 at 07:28:39 AM
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ir_efrem wrote :

I think the OP forgot to mention what he needs exactly :P

Perhaps I am being a bit fussy though.



My guess is that he doesn't need a PCI-E board

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zipzoomflyhigh   01-18-2009 at 05:22:39 PM
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Rigit, if your using the onboard video then there are plenty of solutions for you. However if your using a AGP card, then you need a mobo with a AGP slot for your video card.
If theres no gaming involved, then just get a new m-atx board with onboard video and ditch/sell the video card.

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Rigit   01-18-2009 at 08:25:21 PM
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daft wrote :

are you certain the board has gone bad? there is a possibility that your PSU died. higher chance anyway.



I thought of that and switched it out with one I know to be good. No help. I can use either the onboard video or an agp card since I have one. My son plays Warcraft a lot. That is the only video game he really plays. I know the game is memory intensive and demanding on the video because I had to upgrade the original video card because it couldn't run the game. I don't have a pci-e video card right now and would rather not have to purchase one. As far as the MB goes. When I power up the fans turn but that's it. No beeps no nothing. If there was another problem it would at least beep. I installed new ram in it thinking that might be it even though it didn't beep. That didn't help either. Right now it has a new power supply 450 watt. New HDD and new memory. I'm running out of things to try other than the MB.

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r-sky   01-19-2009 at 01:29:14 AM
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You could go with a 780G board... onboard video or upgrade to a new video card later. $75 - 100 for many.

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ausch30   01-19-2009 at 04:44:49 AM
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Depending on what video card you have I would bet that the newer integrated video would have nearly the same performance, it would most certainly be better than the video on the board you currently have. I would say that your best bet would be to go with a board that supports PCI-E and if your son wants better video performance down the line either you or he could just add a card.

Here's a review
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,1785.html


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