P5S800-VM - no video display

[han_chung]

Hi there,

HEEEELP!!!

I've just purchased a new P5S800-VM motherboard and am assembling the
system from a series of older parts. When I boot the system up, I do
not get any video going to the monitor - it's as if the monitor is in
standby mode. The keyboard lights do not flash either on turning the
PC on. The CPU fan and case fans are all running. I've tried with
both the onboard video and a new PCI video card without any luck. I've
tried booting the system up with only CPU, RAM and PSU connected and
using the onboard video - no luck. I've tried without the RAM - no
luck. I've tried reseating RAM, video card - no luck. I've tried
disconnecting all fans - no luck.

RAM is connected to DIMM slot 1. Both 20 pin and 4 pin power
connectors are connected.

The system is as follows:

ASUS P5S800-VM (new)
Celeron D 2.53 GHz LGA775 (new - supported by the MB, according to the
manual)
512MB DDR RAM 266 MHz (old, worked in previous system)
40GB IDE HDD (old, worked in previous system)
Antec 330W PSU
CDRW (old)
FDD (old)
Monitor (old, works on another PC)

If the problem is the RAM, should the display still work if the RAM is
not connected? Does anyone have any other ideas or things to try?

Thanks in advance,

Han.

 

[jb]

Han
I have been looking at this board to build on myself.
Not to sure what might be going on. I just came from the Asus site and
couldn't get the download page to load, updating or something like that.
Seems the spec.s show down to pc2100 ram but some ram chips I've used in the
past just don't seem to work with some boards.
The on board graphics will need to use some of the system ram to work. So
might be..
I'd try to get ram that runs the same f.s.b. freq' and try that.

If/when you get this working please post. I may want to change my selection
of M.B.....

jb