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Most common problem in the book I know, but it's even harder to fix when you decide to build a motherboard with no POST speaker header! I can't believe they'd do this, and there's no way I would have bought it if I knew. Guess I should have researched more, but this is a standard that I really expect from any motherboard.
Board is a Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2
CPU is a AMD Athlon X2 370K
RAM is GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz
I've tried breadboarding outside the case with just CPU, mobo and 1 RAM stick in both slots and with both sticks. CPU and motherboard power pins are well seated. Fans and everything spins up, DVD drive makes a noise, but no video output either onboard or with a discrete card. With no POST code I'm at a loss of what to do next.
If something's broken I'm going to be rather irritated. First of all because I'll have to play russian roulette with which part could be at fault, and secondly because I'm building this PC for someone and I can't be waiting around for a month plus waiting for a replacement part.
Any idea on what I can do at this stage?
Board is a Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2
CPU is a AMD Athlon X2 370K
RAM is GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz
I've tried breadboarding outside the case with just CPU, mobo and 1 RAM stick in both slots and with both sticks. CPU and motherboard power pins are well seated. Fans and everything spins up, DVD drive makes a noise, but no video output either onboard or with a discrete card. With no POST code I'm at a loss of what to do next.
If something's broken I'm going to be rather irritated. First of all because I'll have to play russian roulette with which part could be at fault, and secondly because I'm building this PC for someone and I can't be waiting around for a month plus waiting for a replacement part.
Any idea on what I can do at this stage?