Help DrenDran set up his new motherboard.

[DrenDran]

So I found these two things at a garage sale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64
http://www.asrockamerica.com/Products/939DSATA2.htm

They were together for a dollar total.
They fit together, obviously.
I scavanged a 512mb RAM card, a power source/box thing, and a hard drive from an older computer of mine.
And I've put it all together.

But now I have three questions perhaps I could get some help with...

1. Will this support a great/modern graphics card?
2. How do I connect my moniter? It does not have a normal moniter input that I can recognize, perhaps you can look at the product spefications and help.
3. How do I bypass the power button needing to be pushed, obviously I don't feel like ripping out a power putting moduel from my old PC, and I doubt it would even connect/fit.


This is for a bitcoin mining rig.
If that motherboard doesn't work, I do have another.

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[Zloff]

Only a dollar?

[Legodude77]

1. Yes/probably.
2. If you get a video card then you will just connect it from there.
3. Get a flat screwdriver and short the pins where you would connect the power button header.

[DrenDran]

1. Yes/probably.
2. If you get a video card then you will just connect it from there.
3. Get a flat screwdriver and sort the pins where you would connect the power button header.

1. k
2. Oh stuff I just realized how video cards work. asdf
3. Sort? I can't sortter anything beacause I don't have a sorttering gun.

Thanks for the help though.

[Legodude77]

1. k
2. Oh stuff I just realized how video cards work. asdf
3. Sort? I can't sortter anything beacause I don't have a sorttering gun.

Thanks for the help though.

Just go to 14:10 on this video and watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_56kyib-Ls&feature=relmfu

[Kearn]

its a soldering iron not sorttering iron

[DrenDran]

its a soldering iron not sorttering iron

Doesn't matter if I have a suttering iron though.

Anyway, I plug the cord in and the LED on the motherboard lights up.
But the CPU fan doesn't turn on.
I can't find the jumper pins to short, and the manuel I looked up online (based on the model name of the box I got it in) shows a different layout of things than the board I have.

[Legodude77]

Doesn't matter if I have a suttering iron though.

Anyway, I plug the cord in and the LED on the motherboard lights up.
But the CPU fan doesn't turn on.
I can't find the jumper pins to short, and the manuel I looked up online (based on the model name of the box I got it in) shows a different layout of things than the board I have.

Press random pins until it starts up.

[DrenDran]

Press random pins until it starts up.

I did that and got it to start up two or three times.
But then I think I broke it somehow doing that.

[Daedalus]

How much money do you make a day by bitcoin mining? :o

[TomTheGeek²]

The whole power button reminds me of my hackintosh rig I forgeted up.

I was removing the SATA cable but it just so happens that the WHOLE port ripped off.

Later that day I straightened all the pins and it slided in very nicely.

Now I'm running on my HP with Mac :D. (and yes, I used a legit install disk. <3 iBoot)

[DrenDran]

How much money do you make a day by bitcoin mining? :o

Hardly any if I can't get this thing setup.

The whole power button reminds me of my hackintosh rig I forgeted up.

I was removing the SATA cable but it just so happens that the WHOLE port ripped off.

Later that day I straightened all the pins and it slided in very nicely.

Now I'm running on my HP with Mac :D. (and yes, I used a legit install disk. <3 iBoot)

Yeah but I think my shorting broke something.
I don't know if I broke both my motherboards, or the power box.

[TomTheGeek²]

Hardly any if I can't get this thing setup.Yeah but I think my shorting broke something.
I don't know if I broke both my motherboards, or the power box.

You should post pictures of it. It's hard to visualize it.

[Kearn]

How much money do you make a day by bitcoin mining? :o

20 cents with my card, the card i want will get me 2$ a day

[DrenDran]

20 cents with my card, the card i want will get me 2$ a day

Card I have gets me about 30 cents a day.
The one I will be getting will make about 6.5$ a day.

You should post pictures of it. It's hard to visualize it.

I shall.