The CR12J2 Mystery - SOLVED

One line solution: Get yourself a new power supply, a good one.

Details:
Thanks to Subodh who helped me fix this. So, took my rig to his place. He looked at it and disconnected the existing power supply and replaced a new one. Everything worked like a miracle. Of course, we had to set a few other things right in the rig. But the culprit for the CR12J2 was just the power supply. If you encounter it, I would strongly suggest changing the power supply.

And, do let me know if that works for you.

Home Computer Issues

The Home computer had a major issue. It wouldn't boot up sometimes. I thought I must accidentally put it to sleep without realizing that there is no way for it wake up since I have a wireless keyboard and mouse.

After opening it up again today, I found that pressing the power button switches everything ON and the whole system turns off itself in about a second. The only indication that something is amiss on the mother-board was an orange light (CR12J2) next to the blue power light. Later after some searching I realized that I did not seat the memory correctly. (I think it must have been displaced because I have been fiddling around with the case wiring on the mother board). Removing the memory and putting it back in did the trick. Now my new baby is back up again to its full glory. A Vista User experience rating of 5.3 (not bad huh!)

The Home Computer

Finally, all the components were in place and the couple things that were stopping me from giving the final touches were bought in the nearby Fry's and its all done.

I also ordered a Dell SP2208WFP 22 inch monitor and got it shipped yesterday and the machine is finally up to its full glory.

Installing software is the only bit that is pending. Hopefully this weekend would provide me with an opportunity to finish it off and also I need to find a good location for my home-office.

Some more on the home computer...

More deals allowed me to buy a few more things:

• Intel Quad Core Q6600 CPU for 229 came along with a ECS Motherboard (will not be using ECS motherboard)
• Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and Laser Mouse
• 1TB Seagate Internal HDD
• Unknown brand DVD +/- RW

Am still not sure about the cabinet and the monitor. I should be settling on something soon.

More on the home computer...

I managed to find a deal and buy the 8600GT on newegg. I also managed to buy the 4GB RAM from Fry's.

Now the confusing part is whether to go for the dual or quad core processor. The dual core 3GHz processor is more expensive than the quad core. Might end up buying the quad core processor.

Building my new home computer

I decided on building my new home PC. The first step was to decide on what I wanted. Here are the things that I finalized on:

• EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
• 4GB Kit 800MHZ DDR2 PC2-6400
• iNTEL e8400 lga775 PROCESSOR
• eVGA e-GeForce 8600 GT
• The other sundry items like power supply, case etc.,

Many thanks to Subodh and Ashok who helped me nail this configuration.

I took the first step towards achieving my goal and I got a used nForce 680i SLI Intel motherboard. I hope that it is not much of a compromise. Maybe, I can use the money saved on getting more accessories.

Now the challenge is to get the rest of the stuff in-place and build that PC.