Hi Jason,

The next things to check are the video card and memory. If you have any
other peripherals plugged in (disk, etc), remove those. Try just the basics
installed, video, CPU and memory (power supply of course), and remove
everything else. This is the basic troubleshooting you do when it won't
boot, start with the minimum first.

At 10:46 AM 11/7/2005, you wrote:

>Well I took a deep breath and plugged in the 12v 4pin connector and fired
>it up.  I didn't see smoke this time but the thing still wont boot.  Not
>even into BIOS.  The fans come on but I get no beep and of course, no
>video etc.  When I initially turn on power to the board the keyboard
>flashes but that's it.  This is essentially the same problem I've have
>with this thing from the get go.  By the way, I performed this out of the
>chassis just to be sure there were no shorts.  I tried clearing cmos again
>and that didn't help either.

Russ Poffenberger
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