Installed new motherboard and monitor wont turn on HELP!

[econtrerasguzman]

I just installed a new motherboard in my system and it ran everything fine but then i tried turning it on again and the monitored turned on, froze on the "Geforce 5200 fx 128mb..." screen. tried reseting and a black screen, turned off the computer and now the screen wont even turn on, help me please

[redwudz]

Can you get to the BIOS screen? Sounds like no. I would try a different video card. Or possibly your RAM memory is bad. Hard to tell if you can't get at least to BIOS. Are you getting the regular BIOS beeps?

If you can get to BIOS, but it goes black when booting to XP, then try rebooting and holding down the F5 (Or maybe f8, don't recall). That will boot you to the Safe mode/VGA mode screen. Select VGA mode and finish the boot. Sometimes works.

[econtrerasguzman]

Ill try a different video card, r the ram from my other computer, no beeps r anything just a black screen and the orange "off" light of the monitor, when i installed the mobo i updated the bios and installed all drivers, i dunno what could be wrong any more

[ROF]

After your BIOS update, did the motherboard continue to PoST?

[smearbrick1]

If you can't get the MB to POST, pull all of the cards and try a new video card. I'd pull both RAM sticks too, just to check.

[econtrerasguzman]

what do you mean by pulling everything out? like just leave the vid card there? w/o HDD and ram and optical drives and floppy?? i updated the bios after i installed windows xp and also updated and installed drivers
rebooted a couple of times after that and then the problem began after a couple of hours when i turned on the pc again. BTW this is my other system not the one listed here this one is an abit NF7 s2 samsung sata 120gig corsair value ram 1x256 chaintech 5200 fx

[redwudz]

If you get no BIOS beeps, then substitute memory, substitute video card.

Take out all your cards and disconnect all drives, except your boot drive and your video card. This will rule out the other cards and drives. The only things left that may have problems are vid card, memory, hard drive, power supply, motherboard, CPU in more or less that order. You have to rule out by substitution what is not the problem. I know of no easier way.

Many MBs will have beeps without anything except the MB and CPU installed, some won't.

[ROF]

Physically remove all cards.

Disconnect all drive connections from the MoBo.

Remove all RAM from the slots.

Power Up. You should hear either three successive beeps, followed by two more after a pause. That clears your MoBo as the root cause.

Power down and replace all your RAM modules.

Power up again. You should once again hear the three successive beeps, but this time you should get a repeating beep. Your RAM and MoBo are now clear.

Power down and insert your graphics card.

Power up and you should see your monitor power up and display the BIOS POST Screens. This will end with an error related to no boot drive present. Graphics card checks out.

Power down the system and reconnect just your hard drive. Your system should now boot up. If it does, power down and reconnect all peripherals and any additional drives one at a time following the procedures above.

If for any reason above you should not be able to reach the next step, you now know the root cause of your problem. I'm going to suspect a bad RAM module or a damaged MoBo due to the upgraded BIOS not being 100% compatible with your system, but you won't know until you test it.

[econtrerasguzman]

wow thanx a lot ill try that out !

[econtrerasguzman]

yea im pretty sure its the motherboard now, the processor isnt burnt or anything, crap i think ima need ANOTHER RMA, this is TOO much bad luck, 3rd motherboard here i come, thanx for all your help

[econtrerasguzman]

this is really weird..... i tried what ROF said and it wouldnt even beep after i installed only the CPU and MOBO so i went downstairs to watch some tv, i turn it on and now its beeping repeatedly ever 2 seconds, wow!! i dunno what i did wrong r how i solved it but this rocks!!

thank you all!!!