[geeks] Need Advice

[Jonathan Groll]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:54:27AM -0500, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> I'm building a new PC for myself (ASUS A8V motherboard with an AMD
> Athalon 64 chip -- about 1.9 GHz).  I've installed it into the case
> (which has an Award PS-300 300W power supply). I'm using an Invidia
> 7600GT video card AGP video card with 256MB of memory. When I power on
> the system it's clear that there's power to the machine but I don't get
> a signal on the monitor nor do I hear any sounds from the speaker (i.e.
> the ever present, expected, beep).
> 
> Anyway, I suspect that the power supply does not like the motherboard
> (or vice versa -- even though ASUS says that a 300W power supply should
> be able to drive the board) and I'm looking into replacing the power

Stupid suggestion: You also plugged in the lead that goes on the
motherboard near the CPU?

Cheers,
Jonathan