I've had my A7A Tbird system up for a couple of weeks, getting it dialed in and everything has been pretty smooth except for some driver issues for my old sound card and scanner.
This morning, I took out the loaner floppy drive I had in there and replaced it with a salvaged one, and connected an old 6 Gig hard drive as a slave so I could format it. The salvaged floppy faild POST, and I fiddled with the cables a bit, and then took it out. I booted up, formatted that hard drive, and then shut down and pulled it out. I put the loaner floppy back on and powered up, and now my system won't start. I took the floppy back out and it's still the same.
Right when I power up, the keyboard lights flash very briefly, and the hard drives spin up. I get no video, and my monitor acts like it's getting no signal. It doesn't boot up, beep, or have any keyboard lights after the initial flash. I reseated my cards, pulled the SCSI card, sound card, and wiggled my SDRAM, and pushed on the CPU. None of this helped. It's strange, because it powers up when I hit the ATX power switch, but then I get no video, and I can't power down with that switch, I have to use the rocker switch on the power supply (300 W). The LED on the mobo works, too. I ran out of time after that and had to come to work, so I won't get to try anything else until tonight.
I've worked on PCs quite a bit, and my plan tonight is to reseat everything, and remove any possible sources of problems (extra cards, etc).
Anything else specific I should look for or do? Anyone else ever have this happen?
Thanks!
Matt
"If you understood everything i said, you'd be me" --Miles Davis
This morning, I took out the loaner floppy drive I had in there and replaced it with a salvaged one, and connected an old 6 Gig hard drive as a slave so I could format it. The salvaged floppy faild POST, and I fiddled with the cables a bit, and then took it out. I booted up, formatted that hard drive, and then shut down and pulled it out. I put the loaner floppy back on and powered up, and now my system won't start. I took the floppy back out and it's still the same.
Right when I power up, the keyboard lights flash very briefly, and the hard drives spin up. I get no video, and my monitor acts like it's getting no signal. It doesn't boot up, beep, or have any keyboard lights after the initial flash. I reseated my cards, pulled the SCSI card, sound card, and wiggled my SDRAM, and pushed on the CPU. None of this helped. It's strange, because it powers up when I hit the ATX power switch, but then I get no video, and I can't power down with that switch, I have to use the rocker switch on the power supply (300 W). The LED on the mobo works, too. I ran out of time after that and had to come to work, so I won't get to try anything else until tonight.
I've worked on PCs quite a bit, and my plan tonight is to reseat everything, and remove any possible sources of problems (extra cards, etc).
Anything else specific I should look for or do? Anyone else ever have this happen?
Thanks!
Matt
"If you understood everything i said, you'd be me" --Miles Davis
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