No video when booting

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Snobok

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Ok, I just bought a used 200gb Maxtor HDD to go into my rig in addition to the WD 40gb that it was running on (thanks k00lance, will leave heat once I have everything working). Anyway, I installed the drive into the removable drive bay cage in my Chieftec case and plugged everything back in. However, when I turned everything on, the components powered on, but I saw no video on the screen.

I have tried running the 40gb drive as the only drive and still get no picture. My rig specs are as follows for those who need them:

A64 3000 s754
2gb Samsung DDR400 (2x1gb)
Asus Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
MSI K8T-Neo FSR
Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1
Belkin wireless card
450w Powmax PSU
MSI DVD-burner
floppy drive
WD 40gb HDD

Any thoughts as to what is wrong?
 
I had this same sort of problem recently. I unplugged stuff and took out the RAM, vid card, etc. and put them back in one by one. Bam! Works fine, now. (I never changed any components)
 
Have the same problem all the time in my Biostar iDeQ. It is a PSU problem for me though. All I need to do is power down, unplug all molex connectors to the harddrives and vid card and put them back in and bam, everything works again :rolleyes:

Happens to me once a week or so.

You might want to look into that PSU, I don't recall Powmax being any good.

My biostar's sff PSU has problem powering up every now and then, hence my problem.

My specs:
A64 2800+ 754
Ati 9800Pro
WD 80gig 7200rpm JB
WD 120gig 7200rpm JB
Nec Dual-layer burner
512 meg DDR ram (soon to be 1 gig).
 
Ah, ok. I did notice that one of my fans was not working, so the whole power supply issue makes good sense to me. I will pick up a good one here asap. Thanks guys.
 
I have ordered an Antec TP 550w PSU from Voboy on the FS/FT forums here, so we'll see if the power supply was the problem here. It's not my prefered way to spend birthday money, but I have to do it and Voboy is a great seller to work with.
 
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