On 11/23/2019 10:31 PM, Norm Why wrote:
Hi,

I gutted my old system because the MOBO would not boot. I have an Intel
Q9650 CPU and two sticks of DDR2 RAM, SSDs and a Zotac GTX 970 Single Fan
Graphics Card. I bought an official Intel cooler fan for the Q9650. I'm
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First things first. You say that there is no video of any sort. Have you
tried to verify that the video card you have is actually working? I would
expect to see something show up on the screen even if everything else in
the boot sequence was kaput.

Also, if the video card has multiple outputs (3 or 4 on your card I
believe) have you connected a monitor to each of them and tried the reboot
sequence? I got trapped in an "impossible" situation that sounds a bit like
yours a few years back and it turned out that everything was actually
working pretty much as intended but I had the monitor hooked to the wrong
video output and didn't see anything that was happening. Just a thought and
it should only take a few minutes to check...