Raphael Argus
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Ok, hopefully someone can help me. I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I inherited 3 motherboards with processors from work. They upgraded to all high end systems and allowed employees to take the old stuff.
Let me say first, I have only done one motherboard install, and it went smooth.
Ok, I have three ATX cases with 400Watt PSU's. All the PSU's test fine. I tested the 3 processors, all fired up well. I pop any of these boards in a box, attach all the cables, turn on the power and everything kicks on, fans run, CDROMs access as does the hard disk. But NO video. I tried 4 different video cards, and 2 different monitors. NOTHING. I figured I must have bad boards and gave one of the three to a friend that's a PC tech at CompUSA and he said it fired up fine. What in the heck am I doing wrong???? I honestly can't figure this out. I started thinking maybe I had the power/resist and LED cables on wrong but one of the Mobo's is an ABIT that has a power/reset button right on the board. Please, if anyone has an ideas please share them. I keep reading and reading but I can't fo the life of me figure this out.
Let me say first, I have only done one motherboard install, and it went smooth.
Ok, I have three ATX cases with 400Watt PSU's. All the PSU's test fine. I tested the 3 processors, all fired up well. I pop any of these boards in a box, attach all the cables, turn on the power and everything kicks on, fans run, CDROMs access as does the hard disk. But NO video. I tried 4 different video cards, and 2 different monitors. NOTHING. I figured I must have bad boards and gave one of the three to a friend that's a PC tech at CompUSA and he said it fired up fine. What in the heck am I doing wrong???? I honestly can't figure this out. I started thinking maybe I had the power/resist and LED cables on wrong but one of the Mobo's is an ABIT that has a power/reset button right on the board. Please, if anyone has an ideas please share them. I keep reading and reading but I can't fo the life of me figure this out.