Robert Bowen - Information Services - SUNY Farmingdale wrote:

>  I have a Asus P2B Board that is behaving wierd.  It all seems to be
> hooked up properly (all the wires from the case in the right spots on the
> board).  When I power it on, I hear the fan in the power supply.  The HD
> powers up but I get no video.  I then lose the ability to turn it off by
> the switch.

With soft power on/off case, this is normal if something goes wrong at
beginning, you have to pull out the power from back to turn it off.

>
> I tried another video card but no luck there.  This is a brand new case,
> board, Celeron chip and Memory.  I tried my PII-350 chip on the board, no
> luck.  I tried my Ram from the 350, no luck.  I tried the Video from the
> 350, no luck.

there are three things usually cause this problem.
1) Bad CPU / cpu didn't seal well. 2) Bad RAM / ram didn't seal well. 3)
Jumper setting, there is a jumper - to clear COMS, did you adjust it to
"normal" position?
If all of above failed, change a mobo.

J Qian

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