New computer trouble
just bought a new Abit AT7 Max 2 motherboard also bought an AMD XP 2600 Processor and 512 MB DDR400 PC3200 Ram plugged everything into my new case and powered up the fan on the motherboard bios span up and worked, the fan on the graphics card worked, all the cooling fans in the case worked and the hard drive span u ...
just bought a new Abit AT7 Max 2 motherboard
also bought an AMD XP 2600 Processor and 512 MB DDR400 PC3200 Ram
plugged everything into my new case and powered up
the fan on the motherboard bios span up and worked, the fan on the graphics card worked, all the cooling fans in the case worked and the hard drive span up aswell
the lights on the master and slave cd drive lit up but stayed on
also nothing appeared on the screen
i have tried re seating the memory, changing hard drive cables, taking battery out of motherboard and resetting the CMOS etc
nothing
any ideas?
whats wrong
also bought an AMD XP 2600 Processor and 512 MB DDR400 PC3200 Ram
plugged everything into my new case and powered up
the fan on the motherboard bios span up and worked, the fan on the graphics card worked, all the cooling fans in the case worked and the hard drive span up aswell
the lights on the master and slave cd drive lit up but stayed on
also nothing appeared on the screen
i have tried re seating the memory, changing hard drive cables, taking battery out of motherboard and resetting the CMOS etc
nothing
any ideas?
whats wrong
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Try this to see if you get any kind of POST beep error:
1) Remove all the expansion cards, this means graphics, sound, lan, modem, etc....
2) Remove all sticks of memory...
3) Disconnect all drives from the power supply, leaving only the motherboard ATX power connected.
4) Disconnect all data/ribbon cables from the drives.
5) You should now have a stipped down machine with only the power to the ATX main connector, the CPU and Heatsink/Fan on the motherboard. Any onboard items is ok as we're trying to troubleshoot down to a specific item.
Now what should happen is one long beep indication that either the memory is bad or can't be initialized properly. This is what we want to hear. This would indicate that the motherboard/bios/cpu are being detected properly.
Now insert the stick of ram after powering down the machine and unplugging it of course, and then power it up and see if you get any other POST beep error code.
If not and you only get the fans to power up then I'm going to suspect bad or incompatible ram.
If you get another, different post beep error, it should be one long and two or three short beeps indicating that the graphics card can't be found or initialized.
Now if you've gotten this far try installing the graphics card and repeat. Keep doing this until you find the part that isn't allowing your machine to post.
1) Remove all the expansion cards, this means graphics, sound, lan, modem, etc....
2) Remove all sticks of memory...
3) Disconnect all drives from the power supply, leaving only the motherboard ATX power connected.
4) Disconnect all data/ribbon cables from the drives.
5) You should now have a stipped down machine with only the power to the ATX main connector, the CPU and Heatsink/Fan on the motherboard. Any onboard items is ok as we're trying to troubleshoot down to a specific item.
Now what should happen is one long beep indication that either the memory is bad or can't be initialized properly. This is what we want to hear. This would indicate that the motherboard/bios/cpu are being detected properly.
Now insert the stick of ram after powering down the machine and unplugging it of course, and then power it up and see if you get any other POST beep error code.
If not and you only get the fans to power up then I'm going to suspect bad or incompatible ram.
If you get another, different post beep error, it should be one long and two or three short beeps indicating that the graphics card can't be found or initialized.
Now if you've gotten this far try installing the graphics card and repeat. Keep doing this until you find the part that isn't allowing your machine to post.
i had a problem like this one time my friends computer. Turns out he put one to many mounting posts in the case and the extra one grounded out the motherboard and fried it.
well i called the company today and they said send the processor and motherboard back so that is what i have done, when i get a replacement or have the same ones sent back if there is nothing wrong with them i will test them out of the case first
the monitor stayed on low power standby so it wasnt a case of brightness settings etc
Nick
the monitor stayed on low power standby so it wasnt a case of brightness settings etc
Nick