Jeff Did your motherboard come with a manual? Check what processor speed it will take and also what RAM chip speed it will take. Also, try with just one RAM chip in Bank 0. Have fun! I just went through a week of misery on a mere upgrade. mjh In a message dated 9/13/03 6:00:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jeff.fleet@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Hello all, > Please let me tell you this tale of woe & I ask if anyone can offer any > suggestions. I decided to build a computer from scratch. I decided to > purchase my components from ebay. I purchased at D850GB motherboard to take > a socket 423 Pentium 4 processor, then 2 x 512mb of PC800 SDRAM, soundcard, > tower c/w power supply, 64mb PCI graphics card, 80gb HDD, DVD/CDROM and a CD > re-writer. Finally, I purchased a "pulled non-tested" 1.9GHZ CPU. However, > when the seller came to dispatch the item, she discovered that it was only > 1.7GHZ & so sent me that along with another 1.4GHZ free of charge. After > building the machine, on my first boot, the motherboard lit up with its > LED's & heat sink came on & no warning bleeps, but nothing came on screen at > all. So I swapped the 1.7GHZ for the 1.4GHZ but gain nothing. I stripped the > machine so that the other drives etc were not connected, but nothing on > screen again. A friend was able to test the memory & that worked fine. I > defiantly had the two continuous RIMMS in the right place & even swapped > them around, but the problem was not there. Ok, I thought, I must have a > faulty motherboard, so I purchased another - again nothing but a blank > screen. I tried a friends AGP card instead of my PCI graphics card. I am > totally dumfounded as what to do next apart from buying another CPU, > possibly with a 423 pin to 478 pin converter on it. Can anybody suggest > anything else or have any ideas? > > Jeff > MJH To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk