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quackers · 26 Dec 2007 at 13:42

I've just got round to putting my new bits and pieces together, but im having some problems. Specs:

Abit ip35-e
e2180
2gb ocz ram
tuniq 120 cooler
160 sata drive
300w psu
pci-e radeon x300

There is power to the board, led lights up. Hard disk spins up and it powers up at boot, i'm getting no error beeps but no display.

Edit: I know the monitor, psu and hd definately work.

Noiw i cant test any of the new bits, because this machine is old and i bought the graphics card from the members market here.

Any suggestions?

MeatLoaf · 26 Dec 2007 at 14:04

Try the monitor on the other port on the VGA card. Does the HDD light flash at all as it may be booting but you cant see it.

Try a single stick of RAM. Its also possible that you need to flash the BIOS on your board to support the E2180. Id say that it was unlikley but certainly a possibility.

You could do with testing a cheapy celeron in it to see if it works then to eliminate that possibility.

Only other thing to try is a different VGA card.

*EDIT* What make is your PSU?

quackers · 26 Dec 2007 at 14:16

the card has vga and dvi, but this old testing monitor only has vga.

I've tried it with each stick of ram, no joy

The psu is just an old 300w generic effort

I've got a core2duo dell machine i use in work, i'm thinking of taking it in with me and trying the graphics card, ram etc

MeatLoaf · 26 Dec 2007 at 15:02

Sounds like the PSU isnt up to it. Can you try another one?

quackers · 26 Dec 2007 at 15:03

Not as yet, i thought this might happen. My original fear was the psu wouldnt upto the job in hand