When I turn on my CPU, all of the fans work and the floppy lights up but my monitor displays a message, "No signal". The CD/DVD & CD/RW drives do not work. I have checked all the connections, have dis/re-connected the monitor & all the drives but still nothing.
These are my specs:
-Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680i SLI Socket 775 1333MHz DDR2-800 ATX Motherboard
-Intel® Core 2 Duo E6700 Processor 2.67GHz
-OCZ 2GB Kit DDR2 PC2-8500 SLI™-Ready Memory
-Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s hdd
-Western Digital 160 GB ATA hdd from 1st CPU
- OCZ SLI™-Ready 850W Active PFC PSU
-Sony 3.5 Internal Floppy Disk Drive
I didn't realize that I had not purchased a vid card but I used the vid card from my 1st CPU which is: PNY Verto GeForce FX 5500
All but hdd and vid card from 1st CPU are new but these works fine. I have read many posts about defective/incompatible and fried mobos, CPUs, vid cards, & ram but I don't think this is my problem; I think it is the IDE setup. Any advice?
2007-07-18
07:15:09
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terriecason
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I've swapped out the psu with the original power supply that came with the case but I'm still getting the same problem. I'm certain it isn't the psu and believe my problem lies with the IDE setup. I think I am configuring the CD/DVD, CD/RW, and HDDs incorrectly. I can't see off hand what I am doing wrong since I set up the IDE similar to the setup on the first CPU I built which works fine. I will admit that the motherboard on the operating CPU is different from the Striker I have on mine.
2007-07-18
07:46:50 ·
update #1
I should mention that the first time I installed my hardware, when I powered up my CPU, I did see an image and had gotten to the BIOS screen but I received an error message: "Boot Disk Failure: Please insert disk and press enter" then about 15 seconds after displaying this message, the CPU would shut itself down. In the meantime, my power was still on, the lights on the motherboard and the gaming case were still working. Please keep in mind that there are three brand new PSU in the home and this is not a power supply problem. It would be beyond incredible that I own three defective power supply units. All but my HDD and video card are brand new but the older HDD and video card work just fine on the first CPU.
2007-07-18
08:22:49 ·
update #2