Just been trying to upgrade a spare pc.
Stuck a new CPU in, another stick of memory, & a DVD burner.

Oh, plus a new graphics card.

Switch on and ferk-all - I can hear the HD spin up, but there's nowt displaying on the monitor and no P.O.S.T. beeps at all.
I've swapped back the cpu, and graphics card, and have disconnected the DVD burner - and still ferk-all  ??? ???

     

MOBO ferked?

TT

I've been building em for quite a few years now, but have never had one fail like this before.
As I said, I've already swapped the graphics cards over and back again with no joy  

Everything worked fine before I swapped the CPU. The board is only 2 years old - ASUS A7N8X Deluxe.

PSU must obviously be working otherwise the HD wouldn't spin up, but I suppose its a possibility that just one half of it might be working enough to spin up the HD.

HD voltages are usually +12 & +5VDC, so I suppose these bits are ok.

[quote author=The_Trician  link=1118148986/0#0 date=1118148193]Just been trying to upgrade a spare pc.
Stuck a new CPU in, another stick of memory, & a DVD burner.

Oh, plus a new graphics card.

Switch on and ferk-all - I can hear the HD spin up, but there's nowt displaying on the monitor and no P.O.S.T. beeps at all.
I've swapped back the cpu, and graphics card, and have disconnected the DVD burner - and still ferk-all  ??? ???

     

MOBO ferked?

TT [/quote]

Ask here Dave, http://www.nthellworld.co.uk/home
these guys are pretty good

Cheers for the info chaps - have swapped mem sticks, the graphics card is an AGP PRO 8X and will only fit the one slot, so I tried an old MATROX PCI one - still no joy.

IDE cables haven't been moved/removed since it worked ok before, so I think I can discount that one.

I've contacted the supplier who has issued me with an RMA number, so I've packed the thng up and will be posting it off tomorrow for replacement under warranty.

I had actually begun to wonder if the HD had gone tits-up - but its quite new - around 12 months old. The pc itself and all of the components are less then 2 years old and I've only used the thing a couple of times for back-up purposes. I can count the number of times I've booted it up on one hand. Main reason being that I was waiting for Athlon T-Bird prices to come down so I could upgrade to the fastest one before everything went to 64's.

Will let you know what happens.

TT

i've got about 4 spare memories here, trying to sort out an old-ish pc with more memory, cant get any to work, it's SD 133 i "think" but i've tried 100 and 133 both as well as the ddr ones(which dont fit 168pin vs 184 or whatever) in my own machine and cant get those to work either. stupid bloody memory. even tried mixing and matching them, removing old ones and trying new ones on their own etc etc etc. all not working


btk

Perhaps you need faster memory than 133 ? The spec for that mobo says..

FSB - 400* / 333 / 266 / 200 MHz

or have I missed a factor of 2?

http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X%20Deluxe

TT,

The Asus A7N8X Deluxe requires DDR Memory. Are you sure that the memory you have is DDR and not PC133 memory?

p.s. I have been away for a couple of weeks and will reply to your e-mail separately.