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I have a "new" motherboard. I also have an 80 Gig hard drive, a 1.4 Gig athlon chip, 256 ddr ram, an ATI 64 megs ddr ram video card, and a new case power supply combo. As you can see I am in the process of building a computer. I have taken the cd-rom and floppy from our computer we are using now, and have installed the remaining components to complete this new computer, just to see if it works. I have no video. The screen is blank. I have even tried the video card in our computer to see if that fixed the problem. Still nothing. My motherboard is a GA-7VTXE which is made by Gigabyte. I am wondering why I can't get any video to see my bios. My ribbons checked O.K too. Can anybody give me some suggestions?
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You mean it doesn't POST at all?

Any beeps? If so, how many... short and long?

Is the fan spinning up on the CPU? Is the CPU getting warm? (Carefully
put finger on heatsink to check - don't burn yourself and blame me!)

If the heatsink is cold, suspect a bad CPU.... check it's correctly seated
and that the heatsink is correctly attached.... since it's an Athlon CPU, it
only takes less than a minute with a heatsink incorrectly positioned to fry
the CPU.

In order for a PC to POST... it needs:

motherboard
CPU
RAM
PSU
graphics card

It does NOT need
floppy
hard drive
CD drive (of ANY description)
soundcard
NIC
Modem
anything else that you might put in the PC at a later date

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
My computer beeps once. A short beep and that's it. Could you tell me what PSU is please? I have never heard that term before. I don't have a heat sink on my chip, and I have touched the chip when the pc was running. It wasn't that warm too worry about. I hope that I don't need a heat sink because when I recieved the combo (case power supply) the company didn't send me one? Or maybe I should purchase one in the future. Is there a way to find out if the chip is fried? I do have a multimeter.......
I appreciate your help.
David
 
PSU is power supply.

I think you might have learned an expensive lesson. The chip is probably
fried and that is why it is "not too warm to worry about". It only takes a
couple of sec's with no heatsink/fan to fry some AMD chips.

If your combo was only a case and power supply then there would not be a
heatsink and fan. The heatsink/fan comes with the chip unless it is OEM.
Then it might not.

Where did you get your motherboard/CPU?

What do you expect to do with a multimeter? Unless it is a special one for
sensitive electronics you will possibly do more damage.

Is this your first homebuilt computer?
 
Newer motherboards and processers have a thermal safety feature. They won't
boot without a heatsink. You may be lucky - simply installing a heatsink may
solve your problem.
 
You need a heat sink and fan combination for the CPU. Check the motherboard
manual for what connector to plug the fan into. If the motherboard doesn't
sense a fan installed to that connector, it should have killed power to the
CPU, and stopped the board from frying it. Tben your system should post and
go into BIOS.
 
Oh dear.... as the other posters have indicated, it might be CPU and fries
for dinner tonight.

Your local computer store should be able to test the CPU for you.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
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