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BIOS Doesn't work ---- No Video?

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Drahir

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I received my new computer parts yesterday (monday) and installed them today to find that when I turn on the computer, there is nothing at all displayed on the monitor.. ALl of the LED's I connected to my case and the LED on the motherboard both turn on, but the monitor stays in it's "sleep" mode where it doesn't receive a signal. It also sounds like the hard drives start and the case fans begin to whirr (as well as the fan on the CPU).

What's the deal?



Athlon 64 3400+
ASUS K8V Deluxe
ASUS V9570TD FX 5700
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2
2GB (4 sticks of 512 Corsair PC3200 DDR400 Matched Pairs)

Thank you ^^
 
You try reseating the video card? Also, try another card if you can.
 
I unplugged and re-seated everything... Still no video response at all.... I"m afraid the board is dead and I gotta RMA it =/ Only the green LED light lights up when I turn the power on (as well as case LEDs/Fans) I'm currently making a bootable CD with the latest BIOS on it and the only thing I can think of left to do would be to unplug the battery and try to flash the CMOS but I doubt that'll be of much help at this stage =(

Thanks for your input ;)
 
Do you have a variable speed fan on your CPU?

It might be sensing it as a fan faliure and quickly powering down.
 
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure, it's the fan that came with the CPU and was pre-attached to the heatsink. AMD 64 3400+
 
OK if its the cpu stock fan it should be fine.

At this point unplug everything except the memory and videocard.

Remove all cdroms and harddrives, even the floppy. remove all cards except the videocard.

then try a boot up to see what you get.

bring the system to a barebones system with just the mobo, cpu, memory, videocard, and powersupply.

It won't boot obviously but you will get a screen with error mesages verifying that your videocard does work.
 
I'll give that a shot, but what happens if I get no video still? Assume the mobo died and RMA it?
 
Update: I unplugged everything but the video card. I even took out the CMOS battery and set the jumpers to reset. Still nothing :mad: I'm almost positive that I messed something up when I put the Mobo CD in (as per the instruction manual) and tried flashing the BIOS ROM onto my existing mobo. Midway through that procedure it said "Erasing (something)" then it began flashing the new BIOS but failed to. (Said "Flash failed!" and left me there with my thumb in a precarious position :( ) Ever since then I haven't been able to get any video on the monitor..

If anyone has any thoughts I'm more than open :) I'm going to try giving a call to the local PC repair people and see if they can't fix it. If not, I get to RMA =/
 
You can pull the BIOS chip out, send it in for a reflash, or just rma the whole thing. Or you could try doing a "Hot Swap"
 
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