Intel D845GERG2: No video

[dyoung]

I have an Intel D845GERG2 and I cannot get video out of it. It turns on fine, but no video output. I have tried tossin' in a AGP card to no avail.

It has 1 DIMM of 256mb DDR 266 and I am unsure of the processor.

Ideas?

 

[g-paw]

Have you tried a different monitor? You could try removing everything, hdd, optical drive, if you have more than one stick of memory, test each, any cards you have in PCI slots. If it's been running, unlikely too many or too few standoffs. Also could try a different PSU. If none of these very possible the mobo died. If you get it working, could definitely use at least 512 MB of memory

 

[dyoung]

Yea, tried a couple monitors. Tried different HDDs and different memory. Have not tried the power supply. I will give that a shot.

 

[dyoung]

Holy crapcakes!

It was the PSU. Who woulda thunk. Thanks!

Though, now I have another inquiry, anyone of knowing the maximum capacity HDD this thing supports?

 

[g-paw]

If your running 2000 or XP, you should be able to run any size, if you're running 98, I'd keep it at/below 120GB. Again, I'd add at least 256MB of additional RAM. It would be best to just get a 512MB stick an dump the 256 you have to avoid potential compatibility issues. Adding the RAM will noticeably speed things up things up for the least number of $$

 

[dyoung]

I am actually building a Xubuntu server box. 256mb should be plenty for its potential.

 

[g-paw]

Didn't realize it was a server when recommending more RAM. Just thought you had incredible patiences waiting for programs to run