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me new computer (spec listed in signature) has had problems after shut her down on friday night.....i boot her up and the monitor says "no signal" but is all conected in place..... the graphics card is in place and not loose i have tried various simple things to try fix it but nothign worked

if anyone has this certain motherboard listed below there is a 2 digit display which you can easily find the problems to when it wont boot up.....i am getting C3 C5 C1.....   C1,3,5 is to do with the memory and listed below on how to solve them

C1 Detect memory
C3 expand compressed BIOS to DRAM
C5 Call chipset hook to copy BIOS back to E000 & F000 shadow RAM

i cannot access bios or windows as i am unable to get the display up lol quite hard
i do not have a clue what i am suposed to do here as this jiberish exceeds my computer knowledge.... the components itself is under warranty so i can take bits back if they are faulty

note the RAM is in dual 512mb mode giving a total of 1024mb i have tried different combinations of dimm placement to no avail they are back in the correct place and still no luck

any ideas at all would be appreciated

i am using my old computer at the moment on the same monitor and its fine so it isnt the monitor that is the problem

have u tried removing the graphics card and putting it back in??

Yeah, those AGP slots can be a bit touchy.

If it still won't go, try another graphics card first, then one stick of ram and then the other, then try a known working ram stick.

Next you could try a known working CPU, all this in an effort to isolate the offending hardware if any hardware is actually faulty.

is it an older monitor? probably has problems with the signal level. i've seen that a few times.

BIOS load sequence seems ok to me.