I am going to do something drastic here...

[Radius Magnus]

I am a problem... and very annoying problem. My friend recently bought all the parts from NewEgg for me to put together a pc for him. No problems puttin it together... started it up for first time and it ran... gave me an error about not dectecting the master HD, and then my friend tells me to install XP anyways, so seeing that it is his pc I did. Xp gave error, restarted the pc, (after fixing the HD problem) and now i can't even get the boot screen for the bios.

What the heck is wrong here?????

System...
AMD socket 754 Antholon 64 2.4 gig
Asus K8V SE Delux MOBO
ATI Radeon X800 256
dual Cosair 512 SDRAM for 1 gig of ram
420 watt ATX power supply that came with case
Windows XP Home SP 1
A 120 gig Western Digital HD (master)
A 80 gig Western Digital HD (slave)

It seems like the bios are gone, and i can't figure out what to do about it. When i turn on the pc i don't even get a flicker from the monitor, but everything in the the case is getting power.

please help before i blow this thing up!!!!!

P.S. Will i was trying to get this thing to work, at one point i pressed the on button, and the fan on the cpu spun twice, then i smelled something burning... i dunno if that has anything to do with it (probably does)

Could it be a burnt out cpu, or the MOBO died??

I have tried removing all the hardware, rewiring it, and the MOBO gets power, the HD get power, the video card gets power (the fan moves) and the DVDRW combo drive gets power, but nothing happens on the moniter.

Also if this cannot be resolved by me... will the company still warrenty it??

[jolancer]

tell me how u installed the HSF(heatsink for the cpu). did u use the heatsink and thermal pad that came with the cpu? or did u use a after market heatsink with thermal paste?

[Radius Magnus]

my friend decided he wanted to put most of the pc together because he was impatient. So he installed the cpu. He used the heat sink and fan that came with it. It all looked fine to me though. He was just ansty, and didn't want to wait to put it all together at one time like i did.

[jolancer]

i havnt put together an AMD yet, but iv heard thy come with a thermal pad already on the heatsink.. was that the case with his HSF?

and if so, u shur he installed it correct? like he removed the plastic off the pad, or installed the pad if it already wasnt?

[johnnyis42]

when you power up the machine, does the pc beep at all? if it beeps once and the screen is completely black, try to see if there is a dual-out video card that is possibly forcing the defauly display to the dvi port rather than the normal 15 pin vga port.

also, you may try and re-seat the agp card, as sometimes if it is not seated properly, the machine will not boot.

[Radius Magnus]

everything is seated correctly, and the heat sink and fan were set up perfectly. There is no beep whatsoever from the machine when it is powered on. It like the lights on, but no one is home.
Also the board does not have a build in video chipset, so all video has to come from a video card, and if that is somehow causing a problem, than i can't think of a way to fix it.

(although there is a com port in the back with a picture of a moniter next to it... but... it is the same connect type the moniter I.E.> it is female like the moniter[like a standard com port])

[johnnyis42]

count the pins. com ports only have 9, and only have 2 rows. if the com port you are refering to is blue and has 3 rows of 5 pins each, you do have onboard video.

[Radius Magnus]

i know what it should look like, it IS a com port, just for some reason had a picture of a monitor next to it. I KNOW for a fact that the board does not come with onboard video. just go to first post, take MOBO and run it through newegg, you'll get everything that it has.

K8V specs

[johnnyis42]

well, then its a mystery what the "famale serial" port is, because it's not even listed in the I/O panel on the specs.

sounds like it's time to do the selective hardware boot tests to see if the board will post if you haven't already. if you just bought the thing, you can easily send it back to new egg and they will check out the parts for you, or just send back the parts you know are bad. just be systematic about what you have plugged in, then slowly add more parts until it won't post. if the board won't post outright with a single stick of memory, video card and processor, then you may have to send them all back. call new egg first though so they can tell you what procedures to go by.

[weezerisrock]

you may want to try clearing the CMOS. I have had many machines that won't boot until this is done.