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the3eyedblindman:
was building computer for mame cab and no video would show up on the screen. My first instinct was bad video card, so i installed that video card on my working computer and video showed up, so it has to be a bad motherboard right? cuz even with a bad processor or hd video would still show up, so motherboard?
RayB:
Are you using the same monitor when you test on each computer? Are you using the same cables?
Does the harddrive spin? Do you see the motherboard light come on?
Do you hear BEEPS?
ThePaul:
What about video card from good PC in bad PC ?
spystyle:
No video could be any one of many things.
Read over your motherboard manual and be super sure all of your jumpers/switches are correct.
Verify that the CPU and RAM are correctly inserted.
I'm assuming you did get power (fans running) if not make sure your ATX switches are wired correctly (motherboard manual)
Start the computer bare : just CPU,RAM and video card. Everything else unplugged
If it dosent start after all of that pull the CPU/RAM and test them in another board
Groovy?
Craig
spystyle@yahoo.com
the3eyedblindman:
Ok all the fans start, the light comes on, the drives open, the hd spins, but there are no beeps, and no video will show up on the screen. Video card tested good when in good computer, but no "boot failure, system halted" messages on the bad one. Im assuming its the motherboard, what do u think?
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