Hello all –
This weekend (perhaps foolishly) I took my first stab at building my own pc from scratch. I’ve done a lot of additions/replacements (NICs, PSUs, video cards, modems, hard drives, etc.) to systems, so I felt pretty confident. Sure, some of the wires in the case weren’t labelled quite the same as the connectors on the mobo, but I think I cured that by downloading the new version of the manual from ecsusa.com. Unforunately, after everything was seemingly attached correctly, there was no video. I tried putting the new monitor on the old computer – worked fine. I removed the AGP card and re-installed it – no video. I pulled the PCI video card from the old computer and popped it into the new one – no video. I pulled out the AGP card and reinstalled the PCI video card – no video. I also cussed a lot and whined to my wife, but those didn’t work either.
Is this a motherboard issue, or is there some other thing I should try?
I’m using a K7S5A mobo, with a Radeon AGP video card, Athlon XP 2000+ and 512 mb of DDR from Crucial. The system fans all spin and I can feel the hard drive spin if I rest my hand on it, so the system is getting some power at least.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Mike