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Yohdawg

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Hi guys I've got one hell of a problem. I'll make it quick.
I have an Asus P4C800-E mobo w/ a P4 3.2ghz. Memory is a total 1gb of Kingston 3200 ram, 8 seagate baracuda SCSI UW2 HD's, Creative audigy 7.1, BFG 7800 Nvidia.

Now I've just updated my DVD Combo drive to a SATA drive and now the darn thing doesn't display jack. The PC sounds like it boots up properly (HD's warming up, blinking lights, etc) but the monitor will not turn on. I have a Viewsonic 27 LCD monitor that has both DVI and vga inputs and none of them work (states that the unit cannot find a signal). The monitor is good because I've hooked it up to this laptop. I also have tried hooking up my old CRT monitor and *sometimes* it will display something. I've swapped out the 7800 for my older 5950 Nvidia in hopes that it may be my card. Alas nothing still.

So I got a new mobo thinking it may be my agp port. Quickly installed that and tested it out on the CRT monitor. The newer mobo worked! Put everything back together again w/ the newer mobo in and what do you know? The monitor is not turning on no matter whichever monitor is in.

I've checked wires and connections. My HD's are getting power and the scsi cable is hooked up to them, all power cables are connected (to my vid card as well), no smells of any hardware being "fried" but my patience has finally started to wane thin.

Any info. is greatly appreciated. I'm getting so tired of waiting for parts and I've tried just about everything I could to no avail I might crumple and take it in to a shop for repairs.
Thanks...
 
Thanks for the reply but I also forgot to mention that I've even disconnected the sata drive.
 
It's strange because when I was setting up the newer mobo I didn't install the SCSI UWII 160 controller (or the HDs), SB Audigy, keyboard, mouse, SATA DVD combo and had the mobo sitting outside of the case. The only thing that I connected was the video card and monitor and that worked. So thinking that this solved everything I connected everything back and still it's the same thing.

I will be taking everything out again and trying to trouble shoot it. I also have an Antec 550W w/ voltage adjuster capabilities. I'm not sure if maybe I should try to adjust the settings but really I don't think I'm gonna' touch that stuff because it's just gonna' cause more problems. I was thinking that having the voltage regulator would help but after seeing that there are three dials that's just three more possible headaches for me.

My next guess is that there isn't enough juice being sent to my peripherals. Really, I would assume 550W would be more than enough but then again I do have a lot of HD's being pulled out of the 550W.

I haven't been on newegg until recently and noticed they already have 700w+ power supplies (I could have sworn they already had 1000w PS but maybe I was dreaming). Again thanks for the help.
 
Don't SCSI drives take even more juice since they typically spin faster? Especially since you got 8 there. Have you tried just running one and terminating it?
 
I would assume so but even after disconnecting the sata drive and going back to my old setup it didn't work. That's a good idea though. I'll try that when I get back later today. In the meantime feel free to toss some more advice.
 
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