I've been reading that ATX power supplies need a certain amount of actual
load to come on right. They have said to include a hard drive when powering up.
This assumes, (of course), the hard drive is properly configured and working
properly. Otherwise IT will cause all sorts of grief...         Rick Glazier
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From: "Brendhan Horne" <[log in to unmask]>
> Ok, The switch has begun and on a very basic level. I installed the MB and the CPU and 64 meg of RAM. I put in a video card. Just
the bare basics so I could check into the bios. Here's what happened; I turned on the computer the moniter came up and the bios
screen came up but it blinked incesantly. I changed the RAM chip same thing, changed the power supply same thing. If I hit the
delete key the blue bios screen comes up no flicker but the moment I am out of that screen and back at the bios start screen it
flickers.  I tried the load fail safe option and load optimize option both eith same result.I have no hard drives,no CD-ROM's, no
floppy drive hooked up to the MB, so it can't be any of those.  So I am wondering Why is my screen flickering?
> Product Specs:
> Gigabyte GA-7ix with AWARD bios
> 64meg RAM SDRAM PC-100
> Diamond 64 PCI video card.
> I have the internal speaker hooked up and I get one beep. Which I belive is normal. So anybody got a guess?

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