No picture when i turn the computer on

[shuz]

i have an abit ag8-v (915p) motherboard with a 3.0Ghz p4, an x550 and 4x512Mb of ram. The system boots, i can hear the hard drive turn on, but there is no picture. I treid the graphics card in another pc, it works fine. Ive tried clearing the bios, and using a different psu, does anyone have any ideas??

 

[stan116]

What did you do to your machine before this started? and have you tried the monitor on a diff machine? Power supply? You need to check out one thing at a time,and take it from there.Even your memory.If everything here works on a diff machine,then you will know its your board.Itsjustthe process of elimiting one piece at a time.Your cards fine,so try your power supply next,even with no HDD your monitor should work.Let me know what happens after you try these.
Stan

 

[shuz]

I had this computer working about a year ago, then i took everything out of the case so i could put a new mobo in. yesterday i decided to buy a new case, and installed all of the old components with a new hard drive in the new case. The pc sounds like it boots, and all of the components work in my other computer except the mobo, which i cant easily test in another pc. Basically the gpu works and the pc boots, but there is no picture, and ive tried 3 different monitors that i know work properly. does this help??

 

[r0x0r]

Perhaps your video card drivers are faulty, or your mobo isn't communicating with the video card properly. Has the card worked on the abit ag8-v (915p) before?

 

[shuz]

yes everything worked a year ago, then i took the components out of the case and they sat on a shelf for a year. i just re-assembled those parts in the same configuration, with a new hard drive and theres no picture when it boots.

 

[shuz]

and the hard drive is empty, no windows. i cant even see the bios startup screen

 

[r0x0r]

Monitor cable? Try that on a different computer.

Did you clean the parts before you reused them? Also try re-setting the bios; seems like a long shot but usually works for me when I have a problem.

This one seems like a tricky one. Sorry I can't be more helpful.