Hello I have a problem with my new pc I pieced togeather. It is a K7AMA mother board by elitegroups has a 1.2 amd athlon 200 fsb. The board has jumpers and they seem to be all set correctly. I have a floppy drive connected as master, CD connected to IDE 2 correctly and a 40 gb Western Digital to IDE 1 as master. The mother board has onboard sound and lan. All parts were bought new. Video card is ati radeon 64 meg agp. I followed directions on jumpers and put board in pc. Connected all parts and installed video card. I have new monitor which tested working fine. The unit powers up floppy light stays green cd cycles through but I have no video to the screen. Its just black. Checked board for grounding and that was not the problem. Rechecked system and could not find any connection errors. I am not recieving any beeps on startup either. Plesae help I seem to think that one of my componets is broken but I dont have extra parts to swap out except for cd's floppy's ect. The jumpers were set to use sdram and i tried to use 2 different sticks and no luck. AGP card is seated properly tested wall outlets. Iam stumped. Pleas help. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif

First i would check to see if you have your Floppy drive cable backwards, it shouldn't be showing a continous green light, next-if this Harddrive came from another hardware configuration and still has Windows on it, you'll need to reformat and reinstall windows so that it can get the correct driver and hardware id's. Then do a reinstall of your Video card drivers and other peripherals.

whenever you do a major overhaul such as a completely new system, you have to re-install windows so that it registers the correct hardware id's.



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Thanks for the reply. The floppy ribbon is connected red stripe to side one of the drive. Same goes for the floppy port on the motherboard. The hard drive in new never been used as all the parts on the system. I would be happy just to get the thing to the BIOS setup but somthing is keeping the system from booting up.
Thanks

Slayer.... ATI seems to have a doubtful reputation. Can you return the video card for a refund or exchange it for a different brand? And staying with the AGP style is the best deal.

Luck.

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Dear Slayer, whenever I am in that situation I check the HardDrive cable. When you look at the Ribbon cable, it has three connector; two are close to each other and the third is further apart. The connectors close to each other goes to the drives and the other end goes to the controller card(be sure that red goes to 1st pin on both sides).

Check your memory and CPU to see if they are seated correctly, you might want to take them out and put them back. Do these easy checks before going into more sophisticated troubleshooting.

Well Thanx for imput guys. Ribbon cable is attached to the HD correctly, took out the processor and reseated. Elimitaded video card (used this ait 32 meg agp iam using as i post this) and changed floppy drives. Still no luck. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif

I have figured it out. Had to go have the system tested to find out. The processor which was suppost to be new was bad. Thanks for your help.

Slayer http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif