I'm having some trouble with some hardware. Basically, during an installation of Norton Systemworks, it required a reboot. The display never came back online. I can hear the hard drive and cooling fan spin up, but nothing displays on screen. The motherboard has no AGP slot and the video card is on-board, so I have no means of testing if that was the problem. I tried disconnecting the drives to see if one of them was shorting something out, but that didn't appear to be the case. Does anyone have ideas?
Get a $20 PCI video card and use it to see what's up.
Do you hear the beep? Suggest you pull everything out but the cpu, memory and internal speaker and see if you get a beep...
Try reseting the bios.
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Do you hear the beep? Suggest you pull everything out but the cpu, memory and internal speaker and see if you get a beep...
There is no beeping, even when I disconnected all unnecessary items.
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Try reseting the bios.
Tried that, no change.
Sounds like your motherboard is bombed. What you can do is pour a little bit of water on your motherboard while it's running to make sure it stays cool. ;D
I hope you have a fire extinguisher handy, btw.
Quote from: tA-Kane on February 12, 2005, 09:12 PM
Sounds like your motherboard is bombed. What you can do is pour a little bit of water on your motherboard while it's running to make sure it stays cool. ;D
I hope you have a fire extinguisher handy, btw.
Not neccessarily.
I would do some diagnostics with a second board if you can. Try dropping the proc and ram in another system if one is available to you and see what happens.