Aljeebo
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Installed motherboard, no signal to monitor
Hi folks. I wonder if you shed some light on this..
I have built a computer using the following hardware:
Lex BN790E Motherboard
(200/266 fsb
5 PCI
1 AGP
4 USB
Sound on Board
Supports CPU's Above 2 Gig
AMD XP1800+ Processor
Heatsink & Fan)
256MB DDR PC2100
Samsung 60GB HDD
I installed the motherboard in my new case with new power supply. The CPU was already installed and I attached the heatsink, fan and fan lead to pins. I installed RAM, connected speaker/power switch leads and connected power supply to mainboard. I put the video card in PCI slot 1 and plugged monitor in.
When I switched on the fan started, but no signal to the monitor. I waited for a minute, still nothing. No beeps either. I tried an AGP video card, known to be working, no joy. I tried the card in all PCI slots in desperation, no joy.
I checked all the jumper settings again. Ratio jumpers off (setupable in BIOS (is this correct?)). CMOS okay. CPU front side bus on (100MHZ - default).
All the hardware is brand new apart from the original video card which is known to be working.
What d'you think? Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Al
I have built a computer using the following hardware:
Lex BN790E Motherboard
(200/266 fsb
5 PCI
1 AGP
4 USB
Sound on Board
Supports CPU's Above 2 Gig
AMD XP1800+ Processor
Heatsink & Fan)
256MB DDR PC2100
Samsung 60GB HDD
I installed the motherboard in my new case with new power supply. The CPU was already installed and I attached the heatsink, fan and fan lead to pins. I installed RAM, connected speaker/power switch leads and connected power supply to mainboard. I put the video card in PCI slot 1 and plugged monitor in.
When I switched on the fan started, but no signal to the monitor. I waited for a minute, still nothing. No beeps either. I tried an AGP video card, known to be working, no joy. I tried the card in all PCI slots in desperation, no joy.
I checked all the jumper settings again. Ratio jumpers off (setupable in BIOS (is this correct?)). CMOS okay. CPU front side bus on (100MHZ - default).
All the hardware is brand new apart from the original video card which is known to be working.
What d'you think? Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Al
CrazyOne
Have you reseated the RAM?
When you boot up, does your hard drive / floppy drive / cdrom drive show signs of life?
ASKER
Hi, I have reseated RAM and also tried another chip of same spec. The hard drive/floppy/cdrom all functioning. Could it be the CPU? I had a look at the back of the mainboard and noticed two pins from the cpu socket were joined by solder. Is this a fault? I guess it wouldn't do anything if it was?
ASKER
I've also tried the memory on another mobo and it works fine. It's gotta be the CPU?? What options do I have re. testing the CPU?
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