Yet another no display on start up thread

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New build, Opteron 146 on ASRock 939 dual SATA board, in Antec Sonata Case including Antec 450W PSU.

Fitted untested Matrox Parhelia AGP card: all fans spin and case LEDs illuminate when power button pressed, but no display. Tried known good GeForce Ti200 AGP card: same again.

One strange feature is that holding in the power button for 10 seconds or more doesn't shut down the power, I have to use the rear panel master switch. I am unsure about the undocumented colour coded polarity of the various LED and switch cables, but the power switch must be ok or the thing wouldn't have started, would it?

I would have tried a PCIe card, but the Antec 6 pin PCIe connector doesn't want to go into the Overclockers X800 XT socket - anyone else had that trouble?

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Bryn
 
Thanks Lee87, speaker plugged in, but no beeps.

4 pin cable is correctly inserted.

Haven't yet tried CMOS clearing because it is a pig to get at :)

Having seen a few other messages about problems with Antec Sonata PSU's and this board I might try swopping over to the Enermax PSU currently in my other machine.

I should have tested outside the case. Grrrr.

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Bryn
 
Lee87, I see you posted a while back that you were considering going the Antec route with this motherboard. I don't think you got an answer to the compatibility question.

Did you try it?
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Bryn
 
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