Help! No display.

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Hi everyone, I hope you knowledgable people can give me a few tips to resolve my cusrrent problem, apologies for the long post.

Around 3 months ago I bought an athlon64 3400+ s754 desktop replacement CPU. I managed to get the motherboard to detect it correctly by enabling cool n quiet. It has been working great ever since. When it was originally installed I had a an AGP 6800ultra video card. Since then I have sold the card and purchased a 6600GT to make a bit of cash. Installed the new card, has been working fine for the last month or so.

Since I ve redecorated the lounge, I decided to move the PC downstairs. I bought a nice hideaway workstation to put it in. Connected everything back up bar the NTL cable modem. Switched the machine on, worked fine. Shut it down. Plugged in the modem, now I m not getting a display, monitor is stuck in standby.

When I originally installed the DTR cpu with the 6800 it would come up with 'CPU overclocking failed' at the latter stage of POST with a few beeps. Switching on cool n quiet sorted it. The 6600 doesn't give a display. I'm pretty sure the machine is POSTing in a way because ctrl+alt+del restarts the machine and numlock, capslock and scrolllock all work.

I'm running my monitor through a DVI cable, the video card is a dual DVI type. Would it be worth trying it through a standard Dsub?

Anyone have any other ideas?

Spec is

Athlon64 3400+ s754 DTR Clawhammer
Asus K8V-X motherboard
2*512MB Kingston value RAM
XFX Geforce 6600GT 128MB AGP
Zalman CNPS9000-AlCu
Zalman CF700-AlCu
Soundblaster audigy
250GB Maxtor diamondmax10 SATA 16MB cache
Aopen H400 series case
Aopen silent 300W ATX2 PSU
LG 1710B 17" TFT monitor DVI
Logitech MX1000 and standard keyboard
Creative 2.1 speakers

Thanks in advance. :)
 
Sounds simple, and you havn't said if you've tried it yet, but - a couple of weeks ago a friends computer was doing the same thing. I took out the graphics card and re-seated it back into the slot, powered the computer on and it was fine.
 
Thanks Richie. I'll give that a go. Seems strange how it would work then not work in such a short space of time though.

Thanks again.
 
Its amazing what can happen when moving a PC.

When I moved my PC downstairs to fit a new HDD I plugged it all back in when finished and it started beeping at me. I looked up the beep code and told me it was a RAM problem.

The RAM was seated properly, but I took the sticks out and shoved em back in anyway. Rebooted and PC was fine.

Probably a rogue molecule landing in just the right spot to cause me aggro lol

SiriusB
 
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