oh Boy....i really need some help :(

[Boozy43]

okay, i'll try and be as brief as possible.

started out last night when i hooked up my scsi drive (cheetah ST39102LW) all was well with the drive but i couldnt get my 2nd scsi hdd (cheetah ST39103LW) to work so i just left the 1st scsi drive hooked up....so all is well and i am learning (online) as to why i couldnt get my second scsi drive to work....so a little later i go back inside my case and try and connect the 2nd hdd....still wouldnt work....so i tried just connecting the 1st hdd alone again (like it was before) but i got an error right when i tried booting saying "monitor inactive" or something like that....i messed around trying to figure it out...i tried a different vid card and got it working finally...althought it was with the original vid card.....but then a while later i tried again...this time i couldnt get it working again.

it is asif the vidcard isnt pushed into the agp slot all the way....but i tied 2 agp cards in the same agp slot and i tried a pci card in a couple different slots all to no prevail...does anyone know what could be the problem?...i didnt change anything around or anything....it just thinks i got no vid card or monitor...i just brought my comp from home to work to try my @ work monitor and same thing....i took the pci vid card from my @ work comp and slapped it in my @ home comp....then connected my @ work monitor to my @ home comp and still....no go....

any help would ripp. thanks.

 

[Hecky]

Before getting into a long SCSI diagnostic session, can we just assume you have backed off your Bus to default specs? 7x100@700 MHz/133/333? If we start with what your components are rated for it'll be that much easier to eliminate them as issues.

 

[Boozy43]

yup...everything was at default.

i tried different vid cards....no go.

i put my celeron 466 chip on my p3v4x (celeron 466 was never o/c'd nor did i ever have any probs with it)....no go...same thing.

so i finally got frustrated beyond belief...i took the p3v4x out and thru in my old intel mobo (the one i originally had my celeron 466 on)...i put my celeron 466 on the intel mobo and set the jumpers to config mode...i only had my floppy connected to it and tried booting....still same thing...no beep no nuthin...could it be the power source you think?...my fan works and lights on the mobo light up but still nuthin....anyone have any ideas?

thanks alot.

 

[Hecky]

Do you mean from an initial SCSI problem, now your processor won't work even in a different mobo? Hmmmm....
First, see if the processor is OK, by trying it in another working computer. Your power supply is probably OK if the fans and lights come on. You're sure in this new Intel mobo, you have all the power, restart, LED connections on right??? Sometimes it is a little tricky to get the blue, green and yellow wires all on the right connections and the board won't start unless they are right...especially power.
If your processor is OK, then slowly rebuild your machine, one card at a time. You certainly know all this. It is unlikely you broke your video cards when you added the second HDD. See if you can get to a POST screen and if the BIOS loads for the Video adapter. If your video card is sending a signal to the monitor, then most likely it's not a video adapter hardware problem. Then put in a boot disk and see if you can get to a command prompt.
I'm thinking it still is a SCSI problem. Once you get your processor to work, hopefully, and get a video card to talk to your monitor, then put in your SCSI adapter and see if the host BIOS loads. If it does, connect a hard drive, and then boot from a Boot disk and take a look at the hard drive. If it is working, try to boot from it. If you can't, you may have a SCSI problem, most likely related to termination. Make sure a jumper didn't fall off when you were moving things around. Make sure the termination option you have set on your host adapter agrees with the termination you have set on the HDD. I once had a multi-drive SCSI setup that worked perfectly with a plain cable, replaced it temporarily with a terminated cable, and from then on my boot drive would only boot on a terminated cable!! Make sure the SCSI ID is set to 0 (Zero) for the drive you're booting from, and if you get that one to work, set the secondary drive to SCSI ID 1 (One) and make sure no other peripherals are conflicting with either termination or SCSI ID. Good luck.

 

[Boozy43]

lol...thanks for the reply's.

yup...this all started when i hooked up the first scsi drive....it was all good untill i tried hooking up the 2nd scsi drive....i must have had the jumpers wrong...but i left the 1st scsi drive hooked up and all was well.

then i got hassles....try booting and it says on my screen "no signal"...thats when i tried another vid card...still nuthin....then i tried the pci vid card from work...still nuthin (i thought maybe my agp slot was messed).

this is when i unhooked all drives except my floppy (eliminating the variables as to what could be wrong)...i took out my cards (nic card, sound card, scsi card) and just left in the vid card...so all i had was my vid card, floppy and cpu with mobo....still nuthin....not even a beep when booting...

this is when i put in my cel466 thinkin maybe i fried my cpu....still no go.

then i tried my other mobo and cel 466 cpu with only my floppy and vid card....and still no go.

it's frustrating me to the brink of insanity!

i did take my comp right apart now and am gonna take in my power supply and have them test it...if its fine i will just try again i guess...i dont understand but oh well.

 

[Hecky]

Wow! Well, when you get your power supply back in and working, just see if you can get to the POST screen. You didn't enable on-board video or anything like that in the mobo BIOS did you?
Once you get your CPU to POST and you can see the screen, stick in an old IDE drive and see if it'll work.

 

[Boozy43]

LOL!...okay...i finally got etr dialed in...i still dunno what it was!!...just a loose connection i guess!...anyways...rockin...thanks!....now i just gotta get both scsi drives workin!~



LOL....now i'm rippin!!...i like these drives