I finished building a computer, here is some info:
New MB NFORCE 2 SPP M7NCD BIOSTAR RTL
New CPU AMD|2500/333 ATHLON XP BARTON R
New DDRAM 512MB|64X64 VS DDR400 COR%
From my last computer ATI RADEON 7200 AGP
The assembly went smoothly. I powered it on, and at first everything came up nicely, it showed a little splash screen for the CMOS, and it got stuck at this screen. I changed the jumpers on the HDD, booted again, and everything worked. It started to boot into Windows 98 (This is a hard drive I'm using from a previous computer).
Before it got into 98, I put in the XP setup CD, and restarted the machine manually. It again booted fine, then started going into Win98. As I realized I needed to set the CD drive to boot before the HDD, the screen changed from the Win98 bootup screen to a CMOS-looking screen displaying a message, something to the effect of ESS386 configuration setting. The Win98 boot screen came back soon though, so I couldn't copy the message down. It got into 98, and started going through a bunch of "Found New Hardware" installations. I manually restarted, interrupting this process.
As it powered on, everything sounded right, except there was no display on the monitor. I turned the monitor on and off, and it gave a message to the effect of "Invalid sync" and showed 0 Hz and 0 kHz as the vert. and horiz. refresh rates. I restarted a few more times, still nothing.
Here's everything I've tried:
- Removing/Reseating the RAM
- Swapping out the video card for a known good one
- Switching the CMOS jumper to clear for 5 seconds
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
New MB NFORCE 2 SPP M7NCD BIOSTAR RTL
New CPU AMD|2500/333 ATHLON XP BARTON R
New DDRAM 512MB|64X64 VS DDR400 COR%
From my last computer ATI RADEON 7200 AGP
The assembly went smoothly. I powered it on, and at first everything came up nicely, it showed a little splash screen for the CMOS, and it got stuck at this screen. I changed the jumpers on the HDD, booted again, and everything worked. It started to boot into Windows 98 (This is a hard drive I'm using from a previous computer).
Before it got into 98, I put in the XP setup CD, and restarted the machine manually. It again booted fine, then started going into Win98. As I realized I needed to set the CD drive to boot before the HDD, the screen changed from the Win98 bootup screen to a CMOS-looking screen displaying a message, something to the effect of ESS386 configuration setting. The Win98 boot screen came back soon though, so I couldn't copy the message down. It got into 98, and started going through a bunch of "Found New Hardware" installations. I manually restarted, interrupting this process.
As it powered on, everything sounded right, except there was no display on the monitor. I turned the monitor on and off, and it gave a message to the effect of "Invalid sync" and showed 0 Hz and 0 kHz as the vert. and horiz. refresh rates. I restarted a few more times, still nothing.
Here's everything I've tried:
- Removing/Reseating the RAM
- Swapping out the video card for a known good one
- Switching the CMOS jumper to clear for 5 seconds
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.