I've done everything I can think of...I've put in the memory, CPU, video card, mounted the mobo on my case's mounting board, powered up, and I get nothing. My monitor displays "no signal input", and I don't even get a single beep. I've gotten my computer to post 2 times out of about 500 tries, and then afterwards, I get nothing again. I've reseated everything more than once. I'm clueless what to do. Any ideas?
Originally posted by topdawg: I've done everything I can think of...I've put in the memory, CPU, video card, mounted the mobo on my case's mounting board, powered up, and I get nothing. My monitor displays "no signal input", and I don't even get a single beep. I've gotten my computer to post 2 times out of about 500 tries, and then afterwards, I get nothing again. I've reseated everything more than once. I'm clueless what to do. Any ideas?
Do they electricity where you folks live? Hahahahahha *joke*
Sorry, I'm just bored and thought I cheer you up. hehehe
The 2 times that it posted, how far did you end up? Past the POST, half way, all the way, etc?
Hehe, you think that's gonna cheer me up? I've been up all night workin' with this thing. So frustrating.. Anyway, those 2 times that it posted, it posted as far as telling me that there's 128mb memory, 800mhz t-bird, no IDE drives (which I didn't connect yet on purpose). That was the only screen I saw, then I shut it off and tried to post again, and I got nothing.
Are you getting any beeps when you try to power up? Do you hear any activity such as the hard drive spinning? This happened to me once and it turned out that my video card was not seated right. If you are hearing beeps let us know and also, what mainboard, CPU and video card are you using?
I've reseated the memory, so I'm not getting anymore beeps on the power up, just no post. I'm using an 800mhz t-bird chip on a KT7-Raid mobo, w/ an Asus V7100 video card. The memory is PC133 128MB CAS 2 VC memory for VIA chipsets.
I'm not sure how many cards you have plugged in your mobo, but just leave the vid card in. If possible, try to get your hands on another video card and try posting with that.
Also, try connecting only the switche(s) to the header(s) that you absolutely need, i.e. power on. You don't need power led, or reset, etc. See if that makes a difference. The reason I mention this is that one of my mobos wouldn't post because the reset switch was causing a short. I pulled the reset plug and it worked fine.
Originally posted by Camper: I'm not sure how many cards you have plugged in your mobo, but just leave the vid card in. If possible, try to get your hands on another video card and try posting with that.
Also, try connecting only the switche(s) to the header(s) that you absolutely need, i.e. power on. You don't need power led, or reset, etc. See if that makes a difference. The reason I mention this is that one of my mobos wouldn't post because the reset switch was causing a short. I pulled the reset plug and it worked fine.
I think you have a short somewhere.
regards,
camper
How large is you power supply? Maybe your computer is bearly getting the juice to turn on....
this is a real long shot, but if you mail ordered the board it is a posibility...(happened to me once), pull out all the cards, and make sure there is no obstruction of any kind inside the slot (most likely packing material, ya know styraphome), had a piece in my AGP slot once, and the damn thing acted totally crazy. Like I said it is a long shot, but if all else fails...
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I had the same problem with my first Athlon system and it turned out to be the power supply. I switched cases with my wife (hers has a Antec PP-303 power supply which is on AMD's recomended components list) and everything went peachy after that.
I have an Enlight 7237 case with a 300 watt power supply. The AGP slot was clean. As far as pulling the reset, hd led, etc...I did that, and it may have been coincidence, but it DID post. However, I turned off the computer and turned it back on, and there was no post. I'm wondering maybe I'm not turning off the computer correctly. I just flip the switch on the back of the case. Should I be pushing the power button first, or should it not make a difference?
When replacing your memory you may have cracked one of the tracks on the Motherboard. I had a very similar problem, it would boot then not boot, it was diagnosed as a motherboard fault. Thing is you probably wont be able to tell if its cracked. Just some experience i had.
Why won't my computer post?
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