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OK, What's My Problem?

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GreenWolf

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Building a new system. Installed all the pieces and powered up. System will not post, monitor goes to sleep mode. Swapped out the monitor and video card. Put the new ones in my old system and they work fine. Moved new drives from RAID to IDE and still no post. Checked and rechecked all connections. Old system is INTEL and new is AMD, so I can not swap MB and CPU, or memory for troubleshooting. Any idea how to isolate the problem further? Is it the CPU or MB or the memory?

Here's the New System:

IWILL XP333-RAID
AMD XP 1700
2 sticks of Kingmax 256 MB PC2700 DDR
Gainward GeForce3 Ti200 GoldenSample
2 Maxtor D740X 40GB HDs
Pioneer 106S DVD
Phillips 1208 CD-RW
SkyHawk 400W PS
 
Well, my money's on the RAM sticks. You might try taking out both RAM boards and then install just one, in the number one slot of course and try it. If it doesn't work, try the other one in the same manner. I have had this happen to me twice. Once it was the memory and the other time it was the AGP slot.
Good luck.
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Do you have the system speaker hooked up? It should make beep codes if there is an error which will help you determine what is wrong. I would unhook the cdroms, and hard drives and try to boot it up. If it still doesn't work, romove the motherboard from the case and attempt to start the computer up with the motherboard not touching the case which would mean something could be shorting out. Also check the power supply to see if it is dead. Carefully use a paperclip or wire and touch green wire to a black ground wire and see what happens.
 
I think my problem is the PS. I pulled everything except the CPU and MB and there were no beeps at all on powerup, just the fans running. I had almost convinced myself that it was the CPU. About 2:00 AM I quit trying to figure out what was wrong and went to bed. When I got up I smelled a burning smell and traced it to the PC. I had only switched off the PC and did not pull the plug. Its completely dead now. I'm assuming the PS was my original problem and not anything else unless someone haas a differing opinion.
 
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