get home and turn my pc on at the wall, coz mum had just flicked it off there.

turn it on, see a big assspark fly out the back, smell the psu, its f***ed.

go borrow a mates psu chuck it in, thepc boots to the bios screen, and just sits there. keyboard is plugged in and not working, chipset fan plugged in and not spinning.

mobo / cpu / ram, which? im saying mobo. about to fly up to ca and grab another.. gg

Sounds like you're in for a fun afternoon.

8-)

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amd socket 754, or 939? which is better and why?

for example, should i buy a 3000+ 754 or a 3000+ 939

939, there shouldn't be a price difference and you mose well upgrade

there was a difference but eric the red told me and i forgot

while you at it you mose well take your computer over to your mates and test each component, theres no point in buying a new MB if your cpu is fried and your mobo is fine.

but then again if you have a spare grand you mose well upgrade the whole damn thing

is a semptron amds idea of a celeron?

yes

Hmmm defi from what youve posted there i'd have to say your computer is broken and wont work....i hope thats helped you out.

s939. Don't go sempron 754 because you won't be able to really upgrade in the future.

If you can actually boot into the bios that would indicate to me the cpu and ram are still probably okay...

What exactly do you mean by the BIOS screen? As you need to hit a key to jump into BIOS and you've already said the keyboard doesn't work. Do you mean the post screen where it does the ram count and finds the hdd/optical drives on the IDE/SATA channels.

It does however sound like your mobo is half f***ed.


I guess you have already gone and gotten new stuff, but if you haven't definately get s939.

I just upgraded my system and went with the Asus A8N-SLI mobo and a s939 A64 3000+ CPU and have been quite impressed with that and would definately recommend them. However if you are still using AGP for your video that would pose a slight problemo as the A8N's are all PCI-E for video.