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I have been given some new hardware to rebuild a dead PC belonging to a friend.
They have given me a Foxconn P4M8907MA motherboard with CPU/HSF already fitted as i understand this is 2nd hand. i don't know what the CPU is as i have not removed it.
They have also given me a new 512mb stick of DDR2 PC2-4300.
So i put the memory and try and boot to the bios.
Keyboard, mouse, monitor connected via KVM,
KVM beeps to acknowledge the system is connected,
Board is sitting on the box it came in, screwdriver used to short the pwr switch pins as i have done 1000's of times on other systems,
PSU and CPU fan start up but nothing else,
No beeps, the monitor LED just sits flashing and no display.
OK i think, it is a PCI-E board but we are trying to use the on-board VGA - its 2nd hand so may be this is disabled in the bios,
Clear the CMOS - tried both the jumper and removing the battery for 5 mins ,
Both resulted in the same outcome,
No PCIE graphics cards sat around so i stick in an old PCI card and get the same result from this,
The PSU is 20pin with the extra 4 pins as a plug that will slot on to the 20pin to make it 24 which is what the board wants, but manual says it can use 20pin so tried both options there as well.
And yes i have the other 4 pin plug connected as well.
Tried another PSU i have here with the same result.
Tried both those PSU's on another system and they both work.
I am out of ideas here, really do not want to go back to him saying it will not work, i can not believe it is dead as no one could have as much bad luck in buying 2nd hand kit as he has if it is indeed another dead board/CPU.
Anyone have any suggestions here?
thanks
Keith
They have given me a Foxconn P4M8907MA motherboard with CPU/HSF already fitted as i understand this is 2nd hand. i don't know what the CPU is as i have not removed it.
They have also given me a new 512mb stick of DDR2 PC2-4300.
So i put the memory and try and boot to the bios.
Keyboard, mouse, monitor connected via KVM,
KVM beeps to acknowledge the system is connected,
Board is sitting on the box it came in, screwdriver used to short the pwr switch pins as i have done 1000's of times on other systems,
PSU and CPU fan start up but nothing else,
No beeps, the monitor LED just sits flashing and no display.
OK i think, it is a PCI-E board but we are trying to use the on-board VGA - its 2nd hand so may be this is disabled in the bios,
Clear the CMOS - tried both the jumper and removing the battery for 5 mins ,
Both resulted in the same outcome,
No PCIE graphics cards sat around so i stick in an old PCI card and get the same result from this,
The PSU is 20pin with the extra 4 pins as a plug that will slot on to the 20pin to make it 24 which is what the board wants, but manual says it can use 20pin so tried both options there as well.
And yes i have the other 4 pin plug connected as well.
Tried another PSU i have here with the same result.
Tried both those PSU's on another system and they both work.
I am out of ideas here, really do not want to go back to him saying it will not work, i can not believe it is dead as no one could have as much bad luck in buying 2nd hand kit as he has if it is indeed another dead board/CPU.
Anyone have any suggestions here?
thanks
Keith