That's bogus, I thought everyone had a power supply tester. Mine was made by Antec, I recommend getting one regardless if you plan to replace anything. That will tell you more than the answer, since decent PSU testers will tell you if anything is too low or too high, and all that good stuff. Every PC problem I run into outside of the stuff I do on purpose (My gear) that is hardware related, I always test the PSU.
Is anyone able to explain why if my motherboard is possibly dead my peripherals (wifi card/mouse/cpu fan/chipset fan) are able to get power? This perplexes me!
Could anything else cause my monitor to not receive a signal.
Is the monitor plugged in? (I don't have a clue tbh :S) The only thing I can suggest is repeatedly pressing the power button on the monitor, for me and a couple others in genuinely worked :S Although here I doubt that'll work
Is the monitor plugged in? (I don't have a clue tbh :S) The only thing I can suggest is repeatedly pressing the power button on the monitor, for me and a couple others in genuinely worked :S Although here I doubt that'll work
I've tried two monitors. Neither of them are working, I am not going to repeatedly press the power button ;Though thanks for the suggestion!
-Video Cards fine
-I tried ram in different slots, using one stick, used other ram I know works.
-All peripherals are getting power (wifi card/mouse/chipset fan/cpu fan)
-Tested PSU, perfectly fine
-When I first plugged in the new LCD I turned it on and the startup menu told me it was in safe mode and I needed to reset my 'overlclocking features'. I went into the bios and 'reset it to optimized defaults'. Saved and exited and It booted fine. I got to my desktop and started checking my e-mail. Monitor just lost connection! I haven't got a connection since this!
Well, I can't find anything but crap as far as finding a new motherboard goes. I figured that it would probably be a smarter move to upgrade to AM2 (I don't have the money for core2duo right now).
Put the new mobo in, got everything hooked up. Same problem. All the fans spin the computer powers up but the monitor still isn't getting a signal. I tried two seperate monitors.
Hate to state the obvious - but does either of your MBs have On-Board video ?
That should work as the default until its disabled in BIOS -- in fact when you did the BIOS reset on your old board (if it has On-Board) video it would have defaulted to that.
Assuming the above works (on your old board) go into BIOS and choose Set BIOS Defaults or BIOS Safe Settings etc.
On your newer board it should auto-detect the video card during BIOS and switch to that ---- but during all this trouble shooting go back to VGA mode to keep it simple ---- also keep in mind that your going to have a ton of driver issues with your old XP load and the new MB --- but you should still get a video sign-on signal if BIOS is fully executing.
As to why DVI didn't work straight out .... many possibilities there --- first off lets get things back working with VGA ---- most likely it didn't work due to a video driver issue or XP getting confused or both
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So, I suppose this narrows it down to the mobo?
I don't have the little internal speaker.
Could anything else cause my monitor to not receive a signal.
I've tried two monitors. Neither of them are working, I am not going to repeatedly press the power button
-Video Cards fine
-I tried ram in different slots, using one stick, used other ram I know works.
-All peripherals are getting power (wifi card/mouse/chipset fan/cpu fan)
-Tested PSU, perfectly fine
-When I first plugged in the new LCD I turned it on and the startup menu told me it was in safe mode and I needed to reset my 'overlclocking features'. I went into the bios and 'reset it to optimized defaults'. Saved and exited and It booted fine. I got to my desktop and started checking my e-mail. Monitor just lost connection! I haven't got a connection since this!
No, my CRT cable isn't interchangeable! I've tried a DVI and VGA cable on the LCD. Nothing works.
Does your video work at all (eg. POST)?
I have absolutely no video signal!
I ran the tester with and without everything hooked up.
I don't know what to do now.
Gonna try some other memory, if that doesn't work I assume it would be the cpu?
That should work as the default until its disabled in BIOS -- in fact when you did the BIOS reset on your old board (if it has On-Board) video it would have defaulted to that.
Assuming the above works (on your old board) go into BIOS and choose Set BIOS Defaults or BIOS Safe Settings etc.
On your newer board it should auto-detect the video card during BIOS and switch to that ---- but during all this trouble shooting go back to VGA mode to keep it simple ---- also keep in mind that your going to have a ton of driver issues with your old XP load and the new MB --- but you should still get a video sign-on signal if BIOS is fully executing.
As to why DVI didn't work straight out .... many possibilities there --- first off lets get things back working with VGA ---- most likely it didn't work due to a video driver issue or XP getting confused or both
good luck