My advice for starters is to unplug everything, Hard, Floppy Drives,etc.
Boot the motherboard with just ram, CPU & Video card. This is the usual
procedure I use for testing the motherboard and components. If that works,
then plug each drive one by one and boot each time, making sure that the
pin1 is lined up in each cable. A reverse HD cable will cause a machine to
do nothing...Good Luck...keep us posted...

Dave Olds

-----Original Message-----
From: jnielsen <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 8:34 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] old 486


>Hi
>Can somebody help me with this problem I am having?
>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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