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02-15-2007, 09:12 PM
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black screen (moved)
I've changed out video cards, still nothing.
I am NOT sure I'm even hearing a post *beep* at startup. Here's what I have: videocard- http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814102064 memory- http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820227124 motherboard- http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813127008 cpu- http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16819103631 dvd drive- http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16827106055 The hard drive is my old sata; can't remember the specs. Worked fine 3 hours ago. Pay no mind to my sig, this is completely different except for videocard (changed out for test). (I meant no offense to Ortica. Glad the 16-year-old solved the problem, over there.) Thanks. |
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02-16-2007, 07:02 AM
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The first thing you should do is an out of case minimum hardware build, you can find instructions on how to do this here: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=132409
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02-16-2007, 10:21 AM
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Tanker Yanker
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Your links are dead....
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02-16-2007, 11:36 AM
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Well, crap. I hope this stays a bit...
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814102064 VIDEO CARD http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820227124 MEMORY http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813127008 MOTHERBOARD http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16819103631 CPU Last edited by Surrender Earthlings; 02-16-2007 at 11:42 AM. |
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02-22-2007, 11:37 AM
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Progress, of a sort
What I did:
1) I Took everything out of the case. 2) On the motherboard box, I set the mainboard, with CPU + heatsink&fan installed, along with -1- stick of memory, and the videocard. 3) I hooked up power, along with a monitor. 4) Using a screwdriver, I started it up. Success! 5) Added stick of memory #2, and got... Failure! 6) Placed stick #2 in different slot... Failure! 7) Took out stick #1, replaced it with #2, and got... Success! So, apparently this dog-gone thing doesn't like 2 sticks. What gives? I put everything back in the case (sans one stick o' memory), and powered it up. For some reason it went into an endless loop. It kept asking me if I wanted to start windows normally, or in safe mode, or in safe mode with command line, or the way it last ran well (I'm paraphrasing, natch). No matter which option I chose, it would kind of seize up, then re-start, then back at the options, again. A couple of times it just gave up and left me at a black (though lit) screen. Thanks again for your kind help. |
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02-22-2007, 12:58 PM
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If the hard drive your reusing has an old XP install on it, may need to do a repair install or a clean install.
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02-24-2007, 12:42 AM
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Stuck, but
I'd like to do a clean install. What's going on? I'm left at the splash/post screen for the mainboard. It just sits, frozen, I guess. Keying 'delete' does no good. No bios access. Weird.
What do I do? Please advise. |
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