so after rocking my bare-bone system for a year and a half, i decided it was time to upgrade things a little.
new stuff:
Mach Speed Viper V880DAS ATX Socket A (462) Mobo
Thermaltake RX Series CL-P0295 Size: 92mm CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
Cooler Master eXtreme Power RS-430-PMSR/P ATX12V Max: 400W, Peak: 430W Power Supply
pqi Power Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
old stuff:
AMD Barton Athlon XP 3000+ 2.167Ghz 400MHz Socket A CPU
Radeon 9600 XT Video Card (128MB, AGP 8X, 2D/3D)
pqi Power Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
obviously there's more than that (cooling, hdd's, etc.) but i believe that's all that's relevant to my problem at hand.
this is the first time i've ever built a pc from the ground up, but i feel it went together rather easily. i remembered to constantly ground myself and all that..
problem is when i first turned her on i got nothing onscreen. everything powered up just fine (assuming so because of the spinning fans and lights) but i got nothing on my monitor. at first i thought it might be an issue with it not auto-recognizing my agp graphics card, so i tossed in an older pci card i had sitting in my closet.. unfortunately i ended up with the same results. i know the older items are still good, as i had just been using them in my old system.. i'm thinking that maybe i got a bad mobo?
any insight as to what might be going on here would be greatly appreciated, as being without my computer is killing me.
new stuff:
Mach Speed Viper V880DAS ATX Socket A (462) Mobo
Thermaltake RX Series CL-P0295 Size: 92mm CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
Cooler Master eXtreme Power RS-430-PMSR/P ATX12V Max: 400W, Peak: 430W Power Supply
pqi Power Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
old stuff:
AMD Barton Athlon XP 3000+ 2.167Ghz 400MHz Socket A CPU
Radeon 9600 XT Video Card (128MB, AGP 8X, 2D/3D)
pqi Power Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
obviously there's more than that (cooling, hdd's, etc.) but i believe that's all that's relevant to my problem at hand.
this is the first time i've ever built a pc from the ground up, but i feel it went together rather easily. i remembered to constantly ground myself and all that..
problem is when i first turned her on i got nothing onscreen. everything powered up just fine (assuming so because of the spinning fans and lights) but i got nothing on my monitor. at first i thought it might be an issue with it not auto-recognizing my agp graphics card, so i tossed in an older pci card i had sitting in my closet.. unfortunately i ended up with the same results. i know the older items are still good, as i had just been using them in my old system.. i'm thinking that maybe i got a bad mobo?
any insight as to what might be going on here would be greatly appreciated, as being without my computer is killing me.