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Hey guys recently i've bought a upgrade for my comp, a Pentium D 915 2.8Ghz Processor along with a new mobo (Asrock 775Dual-Vista) ive installed them, started it up the first time and it worked, went back again as i wanted the bios page and now i cant get anything, i think i no one of the probs im still using the fx5500 agp card and i only have a 300 watt power supply, when im running practically nothing, (one hard drive, one disk drive, 512mb ram) so why wont it start up again?
Kind Regards
benji

No beeps, no nothing? Try resetting your CMOS, if that dosn't work, you have a dead board my friend. Sorry.

Cheers
Cameron

There are beeps and general noises, and i also felt the hdd and its spinning and being read.

Possably a dead GPU then, or bad monitor cable. The HDDs will spin when powered up, thats just what they do, but if you start up the comp and you hear the POST beep, but nothing comes up on the screen, theres something wrong between the GPU and the monitor.

Cheers
Cameron

ahhh right. I was about due for a GPU upgrade anyway. ill jus get a cheap 6200le to last me untill new year when ill get something with a lot of umph
thanks for your help Cameron, appreciated as always

No problem, but before you go shell out the dough, make sure you can return the card if it turnes out to be the moitor, or the cable between the monitor and the comp.

Those things are capable of dieing too.

Cheers
Cameorn

ahh right. well ill buy a cable and a gpu, try the cable first then if it works i can take the gpu back no worries.
Kind regards
Benji

New monitors have replacable cables? Mine is hard wired into the monitor.

New monitors have replacable cables? Mine is hard wired into the monitor.

Uhh....yea. Thats how its been for like.......ever.

Some have hard wired, but everything since the late 90's forward everything has been completely seperate.

Cheers
Cameron

I think that there  might be a compatibility issue between the gpu and the mobo, as last night i installed it with my old mobo and it works fine.
what you guys think?
Kind Regards
Benji

Unless you have a rodent in the house, a cable does not spontaneously fail.

It could be a compatability problem. From Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asrock

"The ASRock Graphics Interface (AGI) is a proprietary variant of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) standard. Its purpose is to provide AGP-support for those of Asrock's motherboards that use chipsets lacking native AGP-support, in many cases allowing both AGP and PCI-Express support on a single motherboard. However, it's not fully compatible and several videocard chipsets are known to not be supported. The AGI therefore is of somewhat limited use and is only used on very low-end motherboards."

I would ask ASRock.

Ahhh I knew I was missing something. Yea its called AGP Pro. Only a very very limited amount of GPUs were ever made for the slot. I'm not exactly sure what the thinking behind it was, but my old Gigabyte board had it and I don't remember ever getting any normal card to work in that slot.

Time for an upgrade

Cheers
Cameron