Jeanelle,

The FIRST RULE of troubleshooting a totally dead PC is:
UNconnect EVERYTHING except the video card and RAM.
Now power up it up.
Even without disk drives, the video should come up.

If it doesn't then you have one of six problems (or a combo)
A. dead video card.
B. dead motherboard.
C. dead power supply.
D. short circuit to motherboard from metal standoffs.
E. power cables plugged in backwards (but you already confirmed this one)
F. bad or wrong RAM (but in most cases you should still at least see the
video copyright.)


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


>Dean Kukral wrote:
>
>> You need to do the standard trouble-shooting tricks.
>>
>>
>> Try a minimum configuration.  No cards but the
>> video card


>> >To cut a long story short I ordered a second hand 486 motherboard
which
>> >came with 8 MG of ram a CPU which is a  DX66 and put everything back
in
>> >now the screen is just showing a glowing orange colour. The cmos is
>> >capable of auto detecting  the hard drive but have not even heard any
>> >post beeps, nothing so far. I tried another video card for the ega and
>> >also tried a vesa card which allowed me to connect to my pc but
nothing
>> >has worked. Has anyone got any suggestions?
>> >thanks
>> >Janelle

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