Rick,

I've tried several times to get that ASUS K8N AMD Sempron motherboard you sold me back in May to work without luck... any suggestions? Never used an AMD board before, but I imagine it would boot up like any Intel. I've tried different video cards, bare bones setups, etc.

The drives spin up, the CPU fan spins, but I get zero on the monitor, not even POST codes from the PC speaker. How do you go about troubleshooting something that doesn't even give POST codes? I thought all modern computers gave POST codes!

Tired of my old 1GHz PIII

Oh, the only thing I can think of is memory... I'm using 266MHz DDR, a 256M and a 512M chip (slots I and II, respectively) from Kingston. According to Kingston's site, that memory config is acceptable (even if it is the slowest performer it accepts).

Help!

 

Must be a different James

If I knew anything about computer hardware I would love to help.

James

 

Ack, my bad... it was Rick, not James. Now how do I change the title of the thread...

 

Rick, your help on this one would be appreciated. I doubt you sold me a bum board, but I'd like to get it working sooner rather than later.