New monitor, PC won't boot up, no beeps, 'power saving mode'
On Tuesday I finally decided to ditch my old 17" CRT of ten years and go TFT. LG L194WT came today.
Now, everything seems to be set up and plugged in correctly, double checked that the graphics card (X1600) is seated properly, and that the video outputs were connected right.
I then turn the monitor on followed by the PC, but only the fans and power-on led's start up, no beep from the motherboard to indicate that there is a signal or bad hardware and the monitor remains stuck in 'Power Saving Mode', no way to get into the BIOS.
I tried VGA first and then DVI, but same again. Maybe I missed something? should I have to leave the monitor on for a while to warm up, and then power on?
Have put the CRT back on, boots up fine and now I'm pretty confident that it's definitely not the monitor nor the video card. If anything it could be due to this simply being a very old machine or maybe there is something in the BIOS that might need tinkering within the BIOS/power management options, in order for it to boot up.
Athlon XP 2000+
VIA Chipset K233
2x512Mb DDR
Sapphire Radeon X1600
Hiper 350W PSU
p)
There is another machine I could try it out on but it's probably not worth the bother, as it's just as old, and pretty much the same spec (cpu/mobo/mem).
Won't lose any sleep over it as the new monitor was bought in mind for my new rig, which I should be ordering in a matter of days, possibly as soon as Thursday or Friday.
Any thoughts on what the problem might be?
On Tuesday I finally decided to ditch my old 17" CRT of ten years and go TFT. LG L194WT came today.
Now, everything seems to be set up and plugged in correctly, double checked that the graphics card (X1600) is seated properly, and that the video outputs were connected right.
I then turn the monitor on followed by the PC, but only the fans and power-on led's start up, no beep from the motherboard to indicate that there is a signal or bad hardware and the monitor remains stuck in 'Power Saving Mode', no way to get into the BIOS.
I tried VGA first and then DVI, but same again. Maybe I missed something? should I have to leave the monitor on for a while to warm up, and then power on?
Have put the CRT back on, boots up fine and now I'm pretty confident that it's definitely not the monitor nor the video card. If anything it could be due to this simply being a very old machine or maybe there is something in the BIOS that might need tinkering within the BIOS/power management options, in order for it to boot up.
Athlon XP 2000+
VIA Chipset K233
2x512Mb DDR
Sapphire Radeon X1600
Hiper 350W PSU
p)There is another machine I could try it out on but it's probably not worth the bother, as it's just as old, and pretty much the same spec (cpu/mobo/mem).
Won't lose any sleep over it as the new monitor was bought in mind for my new rig, which I should be ordering in a matter of days, possibly as soon as Thursday or Friday.
Any thoughts on what the problem might be?
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