Hi, I just got a new motherboard on eBay, it is used and i got round to installing it just before. I plugged everything in blah blah blah by everything I mean: E4300 2gb geil ultra low latency 250gb sata hdd DVD drive 2600xt gddr4 Gigabyte superb 460w and of course my mother board which is a EVGA 650i ultra t1. So yeah.. I got everything in and turned it on and all the fans came on so i thought ooh lovely. But when i looked up at my screens they were both blank.. so i tried with only one.. still blank. I wiggled everything about a bit.. still blank (it looks like its on standby mode). I have reset the CMOS but that didnt do anything either so im all out of ideas and left thinking that the board is at fault... but i really hope not as i got it on ebay. pleeeeeease tell me its something else. It may be the ram as you need to change the voltages to 2.1 but it boots on my sisters dell with them in. HELP!
Hmm, there's no onboard video so I doubt it's anything in the BIOS. Clearing it prolly wouldnt ever help. On your 2900 have you got the power cable properly plugged in?
Hi, it's a 2600 not 2900 and there is no power cable on the graphics card if thats what you mean and the 4 pin pci e connector is in.
At what part of boot does it go blank? Do you never get any visual at all or can you get to CMOS? Does it POST?
No, i get nothing it stays blank the whole time. Just the fans spin round alot is all that seems to happen.
Sometimes a bad device can interfere with the POST causing it to go into a never ending loop giving no beep codes or txt error messages. Maybe this is whats happening with your system. Either swap out components for known good hardware or use a POST card to track the POST and see if a component is causing problems
I know all of the hardware is working as all of it other than the motherboard is from my old system. Which was a dell if that has anything to do with it which maybe it does as they do lock the bios so you cant overclock maybe they lock the hardware so you cant use it in other PCs? The whole idea of me getting the new board is to overclock you see xD
No, dell can't lock hardware to work only in their systems. The only reason they lock the BIOS is so you don't overclock and void warranties.
I'm leaning towards it being a faulty motherboard., but i really hope not as it was an ebay buy do there is next to no chance of me getting my money back.
