computer won't power up

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 02:27:06PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> I hope this would not be looked at as hijacking a thread, the content are
> the same and I think would be of interest to who ever is following the
> thread. I am however not adding on assistance we have been giving to Daniel,
> and to be frank, all that I could suggest has been put out already. I am
> looking for view of a similar kind of problem I am having.
> 
> I am planning to set up asterisk and did what I now regret, bought
> accessories from Tiger Direct and planned to assemble the thing. Looked easy
> at that time, but now its giving me grief.
> 
> After assembly, the fans come up, the CD rom and is working, but their is no
> signal to the LCD monitor. Nothing, even the LED on the monitor keep
> flashing, indicating the monitor is unaware the computer attached to it is
> booting up. The VGA is on the board, so I am finding it hard to figure out
> what is going on.
> 
> Things I have tried. I have swapped around the RAM between the two slots.
> That did not help. I also took the CPU out and carefully redid the assembly
> again with no luck, nothing is happening in the monitor.
> 
> The motherboard is an A15G AM2 and a 64 bit AMD processor. I have also a
> couple of other peripherals, an Intel PCI network card, a SATA disk and a
> IDE CD rom. I am certain the peripherals has nothing to do with it as
> nothing changes when I pull them out from the mother board.

Hmm, as far as I can tell, A15G is a PC Chips board.  They are pretty
much universally known to be the worst motherboard maker on the planet.
They merged with ECS some years ago (ECS is also not known for being
particularly high quality, but nowhere near PC Chips).

> From this, is there any thing I have overlooked that you can point out. A
> little lost and embarrassed to ask such a basic stuff.

Well I would not be at all surprised if the board doesn't work.  Of
course if your board is that cheap and low quality, what are the rest of
the components like?

I almost never go to tiger direct, because other than carrying some
decent video cards and of course asus motherboards, the vast majority of
their computer parts are cheap low quality crap.  So I shop at canada
computers instead where I can actually get the good parts.

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Len Sorensen
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