The display trouble your having can by a symptom of bad ram. It shouldn't
be, because you would expect the system to detect bad ram and just stop, but
holes in the screen and other image problems can be the video data is
getting corrupted before it gets written to the display. This is main ram,
not the ram installed on the video card. If you could get that far, you
would probably see a lot of scandisk errors too. Scandisk just assumes the
corruption is on the disk and doesn't expect that it is happening in its own
memory space.
If you are not 100% sure of your pc-133 sdram, you need to pull it out and
start testing with a known good module.
Tom Turak
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Sugden [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:29 AM
I put my system of a second hand KT7A motherboard, a 1.2 gig Athlon, 256
pc133 RAM, with components of my old system, my 8.4 GB maxtor 5400 hdd, my
floppy and cd drive, as well as Sb and Elsa Erazor LT G graphix card
together, but I have been unable to make it work succesfully. The first
boot, it got the processor speed wrong and missed the cd drive, as well as
having blocks of colour and missing letters dotted around the screen. When I
get into BIOS it crashes, normally when looking at the hdd. Every boot
since, it has set a different speed for the CPU, and has started missing the
RAM memory. Then it started failing to read the hdd. Now the power switch
will only turn it on, it doesn't turn it off, and I can't get a display on
screen. The monitor turns on, but it has a black screen. I've tried two
graphix cards and two monitors. I've reset CMOS several times, but it still
has the same problems. I've disconnected all my peripherals, so I'm left
with floppy, hdd and graphix card. The fans work, I get the power LED, but
it doesn't beep. Suggestions have ranged from changing the RAM to getting a
new BIOS chip, but I need to sort my display first. Any suggestions on the
best possible route to recovery. Out of ideas.
Thanks for your help.
1.2 gig Athlon
Abit KT7A
256 pc133 OEM
8.4 GB 5400 Maxtor hdd
Elsa Erazor 3 LT G
LG 52x cd
14" CTX monitor
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