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saint:

No POST (beeping) is an indication something is locking up the box hard right at power up. Could be memory, power supply, etc...

Take out all your PCI cards temporarily, start with a PC with just the video card and memory. Disconnect all drive cables from the motherboard. Will it start the boot up? (memory test, beeping probably, etc)? If no, you should look at the memory or power supply. If you have more than one stick of memory in the system, take all but one out, and boot with just that one. See if it works, and if so then add another and repeat. If it doesn't, swap it with one of the others and repeat. Trial and error it until you're convinced all the memory is good.

Start reconnecting drives and PCI cards one at a time until you find what's causing the lockup. One you know the culprit you can start troubleshooting it.

Alternatively, take all the components from the bad PC, and try them one at a time in a good PC. Start with the power supply and memory.


--- Quote from: the3eyedblindman on September 12, 2004, 10:12:51 pm ---Motherboard just came outta box today, so i dont think it has to do with the slot, something is just wrong and i cant figure it out! i need help!

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the3eyedblindman:


--- Quote from: SteveJ34 on September 12, 2004, 11:55:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: the3eyedblindman on September 12, 2004, 11:28:53 pm ---its a Syntax SV400 mainboard. To hear the beeps do i just need the speaker wire hooked to the mainboard of do i actually have to plug ina soundboard and hook up speakers?

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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=699283&CatId=877  Theres the video card i have.


www.syntaxusa.com indicates this motherboard is 1.5v AGP only.

You indicated your video card was ATI Radeon 7000 of which there are several models, PCI, 3.3v AGP 2x, and 1.5v AGP 4x versions.

You indicated this card works in another system.

Which version video card do you have?


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the3eyedblindman:

That didnt turn out right.... heres the video card i have   http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=699283&CatId=877

Goz:

Can you try another video card in the mobo?



danny_galaga:

did you try a different pci slot as suggested earlier? there is NOTHING built that can't be faulty straight out of the box. i spent several hours fixing the phone line on the weekend. several different problems occured at the same time (which always makes it confusing). turned out the brand new wall socket i used was faulty. phone plug wouldnt make contact.

anyway, you should eliminate the possibility that the motherboard has a faulty slot. save a lot of head-banging (and i don't mean rockin out to iron maiden!)

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