Yrag and Jafo beat me to it

BoXXi sorry to hear this happened.

1. what Make/Model motherboard?

2. do the CPU and PSU fans kick on as they should when you turn the power on, even older systems had safety features which tripped the PSU off at certain tempatures?

3. unplug the drive and see if it makes it past posting and actually trys to boot the OS. If so, it is a drive/interface issue of some sort.

4. have you made sure that none of the Pins on the Monitors (captive) VGA cable got bent and folded over by accident when you hooked the monitor back up? If so, you can bend it(them) back, but do it slowly by reversing each of the bends in the pin starting at the bottom inside where the pin comes out of the cable. Slowly bent it over as much as you can without pushing the top (end) of the pin into other pins or the side of the connector. Then slowly bend the top kink out so it is straight, then bend the remainder of kink out of the lower end of the pin, then make sure the pin is straight so it will seat correctly.

Really would like to know the Make/model of the motherboard as this would allow searching for the manual on the net which would allow those helping to better understand the hardware being used. Touble shooting a all in one motherboard is a little different than trouble shooting a motherboard with all the perphials on seperate cards.

yeah I noticed now that you pointed it out.


To many rods in the fire at this point anyway or peoples be stepping over each others feet, soooo into lurk mode for me

WOuld be interested to know if it has intergrated sound, video and drives. If is does, and the biscuit is dead or dying. Then the on-board might be initialized again even with the ATI installed which would cause soemthing like this also...


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Shameless Designs - Yeah...you're absolutely right...I read it back wards. That actually is good news 'cause I couldn't understand why the old monitor didn't work on the new system. Be that as it may, I still think it's nothing more then a loose 'screw' somewhere and once he finds it, he'll be good to go......

...and the saga continues

forgot...... mother board is an Abit BX6...I believe.

So Gary, are you saying a dead cmos battery WILL stop a PC from booting?

OK, I will go and get one when I wake up......hopefully that should fix it!! woohoo!!! thanks Gary, you're a star!!!!

hehe....thanks to Mr. P.Martin too, for pointing that one out.

Bryan....the Abit BX6 is jumperless...[no CPU settings, etc via jumpers].....about the only jumper it has is the clear Cmos one.

My last comp was a BX6 with the P111/500 and a gig of PC133 [running at 100...the max supported]....now it's Terry's machine.

In its time it was a good MoBo, though 550 was it's max CPU and ATA was 33 [I think....was using a Promise 66 PCI card, so I always got that bit mixed].

Pretty safe to say the battery would be an ex-perrot by now...

the cmos battery is always the first and best place to start...the lil bugger is so overlooked and is usually the culprit in failure to boot, as well as "my pc is acting funny" issues. many times iv seen new teck's (as well as many old teck's)forget your whole pc is dependant on a lil watch battery....many of the older boards have the battery solderd in place and are not worth the messing wit.(even older ones had AA batteries).

Very helpful, IPlural. Thanks

he said there was no post .. no nothing..

I've been lurking and I truly hope that Boxxi finds it to be a minor and fixable problem...but two things keep coming back to me. He loaned it out to someone....and no POST....did that person use the computer while it was plugged into an UPS or straight into the outlet? 'Fraid a power spike/surge might have fried it.