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Old November 27th 19, 02:42 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Default Problems rebuilding system

On 25/11/2019 3:22 PM, Norm Why wrote:
"John McGaw" wrote in message
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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

snip...

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...


Thanks John. All the parts from my old build were working.


Does this include the CPU? Did you have that exact combination of CPU, RAM and GPU running off that
PSU? Because experience tells me that and "old 400w PSU" might struggle to run what you've got.

You said "my old 400w PSU". Older PSUs split their rated output between 3.3v, 5v and 12v rails.
Modern CPUs and GPUs want all or most of their power on the 12v rail...

I suspect that it was the PSU in the library with a candlestick...

But a more
important is what the GIGABYTE MOBO expecting. Troubleshooting is done with
GIGABYTE, Taiwan. First one must register. Registration is a very good
exercise where one must provide all the info on the MOBO. One is asked what
PCI VGA card is used. Then I remembered the ten year history of my MCP73VE
MOBO. It had a built-in VGA port. Only after VGA is used to work with the
BIOS program can one download drivers for a PCIe GPU. On eBay cheap ones are
available for $10. There are two shops in town that might have a cheap one.
Then after some time I can download all the drivers from GIGABYTE. Hopefully
by Monday it should be working.


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