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Wow.. This is messed.

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Genesis15

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Ok, I recently stated a problem on here about my computer not displaying. It boots and runs fine and all of that and posts But... It doesn't show display, when I go to turn my monitor on it says: Video Cables Connected? Now here is what I've tried.

I tried my monitor on different computers it works fine.
I tried a Geforce4 Ti4200 128 8x AGP it still doesn't work.
I tried a different power attactment for my video card (6600GT it came with 2) no luck.
I tried resetting CMOS and reformatting HDD, still no luck.

So a friend on here told me to take everything out and put it back in, I did that and computer worked fine (used a 300W InWin PSU when 6600GT recommends 350W) So it worked but the display popped up again. Thinking it was my PSU I changed it and to a 350W ATX PowerQ it worked again but I had to take everything out. So I figured allright everything is dandy and the HDD starts being really loud and a friend told me it might be my PSU or somthing. So I tried my other PSU and the problem happened again, so I figured it only happens when I change my Power Supply. BUT! I changed back to my 350W and it hasn't worked since. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm getting 100$ on the 1st of next month so I'm going to put that into an ASUS AMD motherboard, and save up for a 2800+ A64. But until then any suggestions?
 
Well can't say for sure, but it's still possible to be the PSU..replacing one generic PSU with another generic PSU, doesn't really help much. Also, when you say take everything out and put it all back in, does that include the motherboard? Did you make sure there are no standoffs out of place behind the board that could be shorting it out? Have you tried booting with the hard drive disconnected?
 
I've seen something like this where a certain driver would not work on a monitor even though it was running the video card at the exact same settings. I would first try a different monitor.

I am thinking that it is an underpowered power supply as stevty2889 said. I would not hook up those generic crappy power supplies to a brand new Asus motherboard. Would you use generic oil in a brand new $40k car because that is essentially what you are doing.
 
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