HELP needed! MoBo replaced but no picture or beep codes!!

daveqb

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i swapped my MoBo over from a KT133a Gigabyte board to the ECS K7S5A board.

i thought the board was in good condition, but .....................

i hit the power button, the CD-ROM light lights up (on for about 10 seconds then off then on)
the FDD light lights up & stays lite, but put a disk in & it doesnt try & read it.

theres no picture, have had the monitor flicker out of standby but not for long.

theres no keyboard lights at all,

the LAN cards' light flickers as per normal.

the fans are going

i unplugged all the IDE cables & the CD-ROM & FDDs' lights go on & off like a normal boot.

but above all theres no beep codes at all.
the speaker cable is plugged in , but no internal sound at all.

makes me things its set up ok, but cant get a picture or any beeps

i am beginning to think the board is damaged ????

anyone had this before ???
i have cleared CMOS too......

checked RAM & VGA in (often get caught there)

thanx for any help, bit of a rush to get my system up & running again , u know

 

QTPie

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Could be RAM or Video card problem.
Remove all cards but video card, hard disks, CD ROM and floppy.

Now you can narrow down the problem to only three devices: RAM, video card, or motherboard.
Power up your system with one stick of RAM. If it doesn't boot, change another RAM stick
If it still doesn't work, change video card.
Nothing works, you may have a bad motherboard.

I had problem with SDRAM before. My PC wouldn't boot and gave me a blank screen until I replaced the generic SDRAM with a Micron one. It didn't even work with the Samsung RAM. Strange, but it happened.
 

daveqb

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right , so ya think its a hardware problem ??

everything was working fine an hour ago with my other board in there....

the board was suspect, but was working, then found the system it came froms' CPU was damaged, so this board has been sitting in the spare room for a month, thought i'd use it seeings it had SD & DDR
would make my transfer to DDR cheaper having the board already.

anyway i diegress,

if its hardware, my first suspect then is of course the MoBo,