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| 389898 | 2005-09-21 04:57:00 | DFI 875B RevB P4 3.2Ghz s478 2 x 512MB Corsair RAM AGP X800 Pro PCI TNT2 m64 XP Pro Hi, I think my motherboard may be faulty. Over the past few months I've had trouble with it displaying the video signal when I turn the computer on. Nothing would appear on the screen. FYI the graphics card is only a few weeks old. Just today it decided to lock up on me while I was playing a game. I rebooted it a few times and nothing was appearing on the screen again. After clearing the CMOS I managed to get it to boot and it got into the BIOS screen so I could change a few settings. Then it locked up in the BIOS screen so I had to reset it again. I haven't been able to get anything on the screen since then. It appears to boot but nothing shows up on the screen. So far I've tried: * clearing the CMOS with jumper a few times * removing the CMOS battery * putting in a new battery * taking the AGP card out and putting a working PCI video card in I will try it with just the CPU, memory and graphics card later on tonight but it doesn't look good at this stage. Are there other things I could try? Thanks in advance :) |
sa-8-gecko (8899) | ||
| 389899 | 2005-09-21 05:14:00 | AGP X800 Pro PCI TNT2 m64 Over the past few months I've had trouble with it displaying the video signal when I turn the computer on. Poor things confused. Take that pointless TNT2 out. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 389900 | 2005-09-21 06:31:00 | Are you getting any error codes "beeps at all"? Unfortunately even no beeps is not an indication of a dead board, I have had bad ram and cards hold down boards completely with no error sounds. Logical process of elimination working backwards, remove all cards, try ram, try PSU, try CPU, remove reset & power button headers etc, THEN blame the motherboard BTW why did you try a new Cmos battery?. A motherboard does not need a battery to run, it just won't retain its cmos settings if you unplug the machine from the wall, but it will still run by reverting to its default Cmos settings on each boot. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 389901 | 2005-09-22 10:35:00 | Poor things confused. Take that pointless TNT2 out. Yeah I have tried it with either cards but it won't work. The PCI TNT2 definitely works because I tried that in an older machine just before. Are you getting any error codes "beeps at all"? Unfortunately even no beeps is not an indication of a dead board, I have had bad ram and cards hold down boards completely with no error sounds. No beeps, it appears to boot as normal, just nothing on the screen. Logical process of elimination working backwards, remove all cards, try ram, try PSU, try CPU, remove reset & power button headers etc, THEN blame the motherboard I will try that this weekend probably. Will be quite time consuming and I really need this thing operational so I can do my work. Bad time of year to have computers dying on you. :( BTW why did you try a new Cmos battery?. A motherboard does not need a battery to run, it just won't retain its cmos settings if you unplug the machine from the wall, but it will still run by reverting to its default Cmos settings on each boot. Thanks, I didn't know that. The place I bought the board from said to try reflashing the BIOS. If only I could get something on the screen to attempt that. |
sa-8-gecko (8899) | ||
| 389902 | 2005-09-22 11:10:00 | When you say "it appears to boot as normal - with nothing on screen". So your saying it seems to boot into Windows ok? but no screen. Your not just talking powers up, which is different from booting. If you think it is booting into Windows then... I would say either your monitor is faulty or video card. In this case, it is possible your APG card is faulty and the PCI card is not compatable or needs to change PCI slot "slot priority". PCI video cards are a tad flakey in later boards, so using it may not have eliminated the video card. I can't see it being anything else if it is booting normally without display. In fact if its booting normally I would be almost 100% sure its monitor or video card. If its powering up WITHOUT booting then, yea unfortunately I stick with what I posted before. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 389903 | 2005-09-22 21:15:00 | Reset the BIOS. Check what slot is set for VGA card - it could be set to look for PCI first. Put the new card in and make sure its set to use AGP slot first. If it boots you should be able to hear something - like your HDD accessing data......... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 389904 | 2005-09-22 23:04:00 | When you say "it appears to boot as normal - with nothing on screen". So your saying it seems to boot into Windows ok? but no screen. Doesn't boot at all. It powers up and cd drives and hard drives appear to start working just nothing on the screen, ie. no POST. Reset the BIOS. Check what slot is set for VGA card - it could be set to look for PCI first. Put the new card in and make sure its set to use AGP slot first. If it boots you should be able to hear something - like your HDD accessing data......... Yes I have reset the BIOS lots of times and used a combination of video cards. Hard drives & cd drives appear to start up. Last night I took everything out except CPU, PSU, 1 stick of RAM and video card and it still wouldn't POST. RMA time? |
sa-8-gecko (8899) | ||
| 389905 | 2005-09-23 01:00:00 | RMA time? I'd say so. |
pctek (84) | ||
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