Mike,

Have you tried putting the monitor on another system?  From what you said, I
doubt this is the problem, but it will confirm absolutely that the monitor
is good.

Now on to the box itself..... turn the box upside down and GENTLY shake it
to see if there are loose screws/parts.
Next disconnect the drive cableS from the MoBo and power it up.  Even
without drives, you should see the BIOS and video info.  If it's still dead,
remove the video card and power it up, at this point you are now listening
for beep codes.  If it is still dead, then there are only three
possibilities left -- dead cpu, dead MoBo, bad power supply.

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Bridges <[log in to unmask]>

> I have a computer that I just rebuilt a few months back that is running
> a AMD366 on a VA-503+ board with 64mb of simms.The OS is windows 95.
>  When I turn the computer on I get nothing.The monitor has power but the
> screen is blank as if it were off.It is my girlfreinds computer so I do
> not know the details before she shut it down the last time.
>  When I try to boot it the screen remains blank,the harddrive runs
> continuously and I get no beep.
>  I have pulled all the cards,checked all connections and checked the
> hard
> drive,video card and monitor.They all check out fine.
>  All that is left in the box is the mainboard,AMD chip,hard drive,ram
> and video card.

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