On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:22, Levi Bard wrote:
> > I get no post beep and no video(to even check the bios) so
> > if the thing doesnt even boot how do I know which is the
> > culprit? It will power up all the HDDs and the mobo power
> > light is on so I know that the power at least gets to the
> > mobo,even the fan on the cpu works fine.
>
> Most contemporary PC systems will not even power on if one or
>more of {motherboard,ram,cpu} is bad. It strongly suggests to me
>that the problem is none of these if the HDDs power up and the lights come on.
I had a similar problem and called the phone support of one of the local
computer shops. They had me pull out the memory and then try again
listening for beeps. A quick seach of google for motherboard error
codes will get you a list. I believe bad video cards for certain bios'
is one long and two or three short beeps. But since you are getting no
beeps, this won't help. Since I didn't have a compatable cpu or memory
to try swapping out, I yanked the motherboard out and took it down to
the store I bought it from. It worked fine for them, so I left with the
only remaining variable, a new power supply. If you didn't buy it
locally, you could always buy another memory stick from one of the local
computer stores and have them install and check it out for you. Most
will do it for free as long as the motherboard is not mounted in a case.
Jim
>
> > I have used 2
> > different video cards to even eliminate the prospect of a
> > bad video card. Since I am not getting any sort of post
> > code at all (no beeps)how do I go about finding out which
> > is not working properly?
>
> If you're not getting a post code, it further suggests that
>everything's working fine except the video. It could be that
>you're not getting the video card plugged in all the way, as
>suggested earlier. Your AGP slot could also be bad, although
> that's pretty rare. It might just be something mundane like
>the way the bios is set up, causing a problem with the AGP video.
>In any case, I'd try a PCI video card out.
>
> Another thing to try: go through the motherboard manual and
check that the positions of all the jumpers are what you want them to be.
>
> Levi
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