ithink the mobo has power

[tfrich]

yea thats what it was thinkin 5

[tfrich]

well icut the plug in half plug it in,
installed the RAM and the HDD ide1 set to mster,
turned on the power ...
and... nothing... not a darn thing
no beeps no click click of HDD, nothing.so,
ipulled the ide from the mobo and the HDD started up...\
what the f*$%# up with this system...
please help

[CCT]

You MIGHT take a deep breath, and then tell us what state works now.

AND PLEASE, start typing like most people type and speak (if you speak like you have been typing then I apologize).


What state works NOW?


edit: state, as in, can you get to the Bios screen on boot with or without the HD connected?

[tfrich]

lol... what do you mean what state?
imean well the thing is just sitting ther in the corner
i guess if i had an agp card i could try to get into the setup
wait do i need a agp or could i use a pci?...i dont know where to go from here .... and not another link...lol...cct,ikown me and the keyboard are like pees and carrots

[CCT]

Well - OK then. I leave the vegetables (little joke about peas and carrots - one doesn't 'pee' on ones carrots, you know!) to Noo Noo and she is near bed time in the good old English Countryside so you must await her rising in the nonce.



gl

[tfrich]

ok guys... come on,
its my first attempt at building a system.
a couple of questions, do i have to have the monitor before i,ll hear any beeps?
can i use my nvidia graphics card with this motherboard ?
how do i load those drivers i downloaded from ecs elitegroup?
should i put my XP disk in the drive when i try to boot?
come on it wil be a big upgrade for me!
i dont know if this ol emachine with 500mhzcpu
384 RAM and well heck thats about it.lol

the new one is 755 a-2 elitegrp mb
asprie atx x navigator case 500psu
and a AMD sepron 3000+ cpu
WD1600jb 160 gig HDD
512mb RAM
and my ole nvida gforce 2 lol ...with 32mb vram
hp cd writer
and my samsung dvd drive


where do i start?...and please dont say bestbuy.

[NooNoo]

ok guys... come on,
its my first attempt at building a system.
a couple of questions, do i have to have the monitor before i,ll hear any beeps?

No, but you do need to plug in the case speaker (red and black cable) to the SPK1 header on the motherboard.

can i use my nvidia graphics card with this motherboard ?

Yes.

how do i load those drivers i downloaded from ecs elitegroup?

We'll get to that when you have loaded Windows

should i put my XP disk in the drive when i try to boot?

That depends. First you have to get it to Power On Self Test (POST)properly first.
You said you added the IDE drive and it didn't work. That means you have a fault with the drive. You may have a faulty cable or a faulty drive or you may not have connected it correctly.

come on it wil be a big upgrade for me!
i dont know if this ol emachine with 500mhzcpu
384 RAM and well heck thats about it.lol

the new one is 755 a-2 elitegrp mb
asprie atx x navigator case 500psu
and a AMD sepron 3000+ cpu
WD1600jb 160 gig HDD
512mb RAM
and my ole nvida gforce 2 lol ...with 32mb vram
hp cd writer
and my samsung dvd drive


where do i start?...and please dont say bestbuy.

At the beginning and no, I would never suggest bestbuy unless it was to buy something that you needed, like a new hard drive and it had the best deal on the drive you wanted.


So answer the following questions clearly.

Did you plug in the case speaker wire to SPK1 header on the motherboard?

Have you put the graphics card in correctly?

What is the make and model of the hard drive?

[tfrich]

No, but you do need to plug in the case speaker (red and black cable) to the SPK1 header on the motherboard.
Yes.

We'll get to that when you have loaded Windows

That depends. First you have to get it to Power On Self Test (POST)properly first.
You said you added the IDE drive and it didn't work. That means you have a fault with the drive. You may have a faulty cable or a faulty drive or you may not have connected it correctly.




At the beginning and no, I would never suggest bestbuy unless it was to buy something that you needed, like a new hard drive and it had the best deal on the drive you wanted.


So answer the following questions clearly.

Did you plug in the case speaker wire to SPK1 header on the motherboard?

Have you put the graphics card in correctly?

What is the make and model of the hard drive?

yes i have the spker pluged into spk1
and no i havent installed my pci nvida card.
the hard drive i tried to hook up was may maxtor 10 gig
it has xp already on it...but, im going to install my western digital 1600jb 160gig with xp already on it with sp2
let me ask u another ?
itried to turn it on with the jumper to clear the cmos and nothing no power at all if the mobo sat i the closet for so long without a cmos batterywill
it still have the factory settings?

[NooNoo]

If XP is already on the hard drive, XP probably won't boot. XP builds itself on the hardware on the machine, change the hardware for a different manufacturer and it won't start.

Now the computer must have a video card in it otherwise is won't start and you may hear 3 beeps.

If you set the clear cmos jumper to on and turn on the machine, the machine will not work.

So, have you got a monitor plugged in?
What do you actually see on the screen?

Have you got a floppy disk drive in the machine, if so, is it connected?

[tfrich]

i hooked everything up except the floppy and no beeps and nothing on the screen

[xpuser357]

Just a small question? Are you on a carpet, Have you grounded yourself and computer case from static electricity?? while working inside computer?

[tfrich]

Just a small question? Are you on a carpet, Have you grounded yourself and computer case from static electricity?? while working inside computer?

no im not

[NooNoo]

i hooked everything up except the floppy and no beeps and nothing on the screen

If you hook up just the video card and the RAM, do you get anything on the screen? (Don't connect any drives at this point).

[tfrich]

If you hook up just the video card and the RAM, do you get anything on the screen? (Don't connect any drives at this point).

nope

[NooNoo]

Then either the cpu or the motherboard is dead. The only way to test it is to get a known good compatible cpu and try it.