Are you SURE that MB isn't grounded on the case????????? ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Fleet To: PCTechTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:47 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Trying to building a P4 PC - unsuccessfully! 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 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 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