Your system with only memory installed and a monitor attached,
no cd, no hard disk, no diskette, no modem, should boot far enough
that something appears on the screen.  If the screen is still dark,
check your ram is installed properly, the motherboard isn't touching
something metal that it shouldn't be (grounded improperly), and that your monitor
does not have a bent pin in the connector that is preventing it from
plugging correctly into the video out port on the motherboard.
Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Jun Qian <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 7:48 AM

>G'day all members,
>
>I'm building a computer, it is a PII-350 on a PC100 M747 BX mobo
>(onboard agp video and sound), with 64Mb pc100 sdram, 40x cdrom and 6.4G
>HDD.  The problem is that after I put everything together and tried to
>load win98 on it, It doesn't boot at all. There is nothing appeared on
>screen, just black screen like there is no computer connected. I can see
>the power supply fan and cpu fan running, harddisk light was also on for
>a while, the floppy light was on forever but doesn't read any floppy. I
>double checked jumper setting, cabling, I tried other ram, cpu, mobo,
>harddisk, power supply and all cables, still no luck. I just built a
>same machine 24hour ago, it was perfectly fine. Can anyone finger out
>what's the problem is? I'm running out of ideal.
>
>TIA
>
>J Qian

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