Mobo won't boot :(

[jmoore2001]

Ok, after hours of frustration I'm coming to the boards to ask for help!

I just put together a machine and it won't boot at all. When I startup, the fans will all run, but I get the "Check Signal Cable" message. The first thing I did was swap video cards, but the same thing happened. I even unplugged all other fans, hard drives, cd-rom, floppy etc. but it's still doing it.

I'm thinking it's something with the motherboard or CPU, but I'm not sure how to test it to see if that's the problem.

Any suggestions?

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System I'm using:

Abit NF7-M motherboard
Athlon XP 2100+
Thermaltake Volcano 11+ heatsink+fan with Arctic Silver 3
512 mb pc2100 Crucial
Thermaltake Purepower 400w power supply
(plus hard drives and cd-roms)
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Everything is brand new new except the motherboard and CPU)

[SiliconJon]

Did you also unplug the mouse & keyboard and get the same error [that error being no video signal to the monitor]

[John Prophet]

try resetting the bios? try it with one stick of ram. Reseat the one stick. Reseat the cpu.

Not a lot to check after that, lol. Unless you have a spare cpu. Or you might try taking it back out of the case and try to boot it like that.

Or try another power supply.

With everything unplugged you are down to only a few options..which is good.

JP

[grebinrm]

I hate to sound condesceding....but did you try another monitor?

--Rich

[pinoy87]

what vid cards did u use?

[NDC]

Also try clearing the CMOS...