No Screen Output.

[beezmnet]

DFI LanParty NFII Ultra Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ w/400 fsb Processor
OCZ 1024MB Dual Channel PC3200 DDR Ram
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro GFX Card


Well... I just got back home from college, I go to school up in south dakota and live in mississippi, well my precious computer rode in my trunk the whole way down, being bounced and jarred around.
I get home and I try hooking up my computer, I dont get any output on the screen... none at all, i've had wierd problems with my graphic card before, but i would just have to do wierd things, like plug it into the dvi port or have a 2nd monitor plugged in for it to work correctly, because it would throw out some wierd resolution that my lcd can't display, this time it's not getting a signal at all though... so i replace the card with a crappy nvidia pci one i had in another computer that i know works fine, still nothing, i've tried other monitors as well.

I get no output whatsoever on the screen, if i listen close i get a beep noise every few seconds it sounds, not sure if this is normal or not, can't really remember, lol, i don't think it is.

Does anyone have ANY idea what could have happened ? I checked to make sure everything was still plugged in/seated properly, I am currently in the process of tearing evertyhing out of it and hooking it all back up to make sure everything is plugged in correctly (it's currently sprawled about my floor).

I was told also that I needed to switch the bios settings from an AGP card to PCI when I was trying to test it with the other card, how would I even do this without any type of output on the screen ?! lol...

ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Stewart

 

[beezmnet]

After getting it all back together now actually... I notice that the HDD light on my case stays on and when I go to turn off the computer I just have to press the button for a brief moment to turn it off rather than having to hold the button down, so I don't think it's even getting to the windows boot sequence at all.

 

[Josh7289]

Make sure EVERYTHING is hooked up properly, especially the 4-pin power supply to the CPU, as that can be missed.

Also, check this out: http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

 

[shimsham]

test with another psu if possible.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Reseat everything. CPU, RAM, power supply, the lot.

- M4H

 

[pkme2]

I once opened a case that was shipped cross country for a client and almost everything fell out. This totally caught me by surprise but I could believe it happening.

I'm glad that everything worked after reseating all components, even the memory. Sh^t happens, so don't get frustrated. Just go through the steps, it will work.