Please help, trying to get new computer running

[santoro1]

I'm building my first computer. Have changed a lot of components but never from scratch. Anyway, put together amd64 3400+, 2 120gb WD HD's, DVD rw, and CD rw, floppy drive, 1.5gb 400 ddr ram. Neo platinum motherboard, 9800 pro video card and SB audigy ZS sound card.. Got it all together, plugged it in, hit del and got into CMOS. Starting checking things out, set time, date, etc. No problems. Was going over the MSI user manual over each setting. When got to Cool and Quiet. I enabled it as per user manual rx. Changed fan tolerances from auto to 40/122. No problems. Booted up again all was ok. Then I noticed the CPU FSB was only at 200, thought I read it should be at 400 so I changed it. Then I noticed CPU voltage was in the grey area (auto), and I changed it to 1.65 which was in the yellow, stating higher performance. Stayed away fromt he red levels which was 1.7 and above. When I went to boot up a few minutes later...nothing. For the first time I did NOT get the single beep. And, I could get nothing on the screen. So I swapped out to another screen that is working on my other computer. Still nothing. Tried. turning on and hitting Del, esc, F1, F2, etc. nothing. Went over wiring instead and connections. Did I set something wrong, and if I did, How do I get back in to change them back? Please help. I thought I was doing pretty good, but all of a sudden, not so sure. Thanks. ASAP please!

[i an not a nerd]

Wow, two of the same threads...

[alex666]

I don't own a 64. With that disclaimer, it sounds like you botched something in your bios to the point that it's not bootable or won't even post, and you probably need to pull your battery and let your bios reset back to default, and then start over again. But hopefully, someone with 64 experience can provide some suggestions. Also your manual or your mobo makers website might have some troubleshooting suggestions.

64 or otherwise, when buildling a system from scratch, it always is smart to test your system a step at a time, i.e., right after you install your cpu with hsf and psu, and then after you add memory, and then after you add your video card where you can get into your bios. Then and only then do you install your hdds and optical drives and whatever else you put in your system. So in your current situation, it would not hurt to pull your hdd and everything else and work with only your cpu, memory, and video card and just try to get into your bios.

BTW, what does the following mean?

So I swapped out to another screen that is working on my other computer.

Good luck.

marty

[PrntRhd]

This is a duplicate thread, the active thread is here:
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=36930
Please direct reply posts to the active one. I would have closed this thread but won't due to the last reply by Alex666.