Hiya and thanks for taking the time to read. First a little background. I have an Asus SLI motherboard for and Athlon 64 and recently replaced the chipset heatsink (not the cpu one, the other one on the chip embeded between the two graphics cards on the motherboard). Upon re-assembly here's what happens:
The computer boots as normal with all the usual blurb appearing on the screen followed by the windows xp loading logo. However as soon as the computer attempts to switch to the proper resolution the signal to the monitor cuts out. I can hear all the little windows jingle and sounds so all is working fine except for this. To double check I booted the computer in VGA mode. In this mode the monitor keeps displaying and I can confirm that everything is working. Whilst in this mode I checked the device manager which reports the video cards to be oprational. I also tried swapping the video cards over just to make sure I hadn't broken one of them and the problem still persists.
By process of elimination Im guessing I've broken the motherbaord and I'm going to have to buy a new one, but before I cough up the cash I thought I'd get a second opinion. I'm not very computer savvy so any help you could give is greatly appreciated. Many thanks
The computer boots as normal with all the usual blurb appearing on the screen followed by the windows xp loading logo. However as soon as the computer attempts to switch to the proper resolution the signal to the monitor cuts out. I can hear all the little windows jingle and sounds so all is working fine except for this. To double check I booted the computer in VGA mode. In this mode the monitor keeps displaying and I can confirm that everything is working. Whilst in this mode I checked the device manager which reports the video cards to be oprational. I also tried swapping the video cards over just to make sure I hadn't broken one of them and the problem still persists.
By process of elimination Im guessing I've broken the motherbaord and I'm going to have to buy a new one, but before I cough up the cash I thought I'd get a second opinion. I'm not very computer savvy so any help you could give is greatly appreciated. Many thanks