Here's the deal. I had bought a motherboard and processor. they did not work, so i bought a brand new:
- Asus A7A266 Motherboard
and - AMD Athlon T-bird 1.2Ghz
I had:
- ATX Case with 300Watt power supply
- Coolermaster Coolong fan for socket A chips
- 128 MB SDRam
- 40 GB Western Digital hard drive
- an old floppy drive
- Voodoo 3 PCI video
- keyboard, mouse
SOOO.... I mount the motherboard, i put in the CPU, i put a spot of goo onto the processor, i hook up the fan, i plug it in, i plug in all of the little chassis wires into the motherboard, i put in the memory, i plug in the IDE ribbon and the floppy ribbon, I plug in the voodoo 3 PCI card, i hook up the ribbons to their respective drives, i plug in the power cables from the power supply to the drives, i plug in the power cable from the power supply to the motherboard. i set all of the jumpers and switches to Auto and Default. I plug in the power supply. i plug in the keyboard and mouse. i filck the switch on the back of the power supply. the LED on the motherboard lights up. I press the power switch on the chassis, and the power supply fan powers on. i don't know what's going on now. the CPU fan won't power up, and the screen stays blank. nothing popped. there's no smoke. there's nothing out of the ordinary, except that nothing happens!! please, and suggestion is appreciated....
- Asus A7A266 Motherboard
and - AMD Athlon T-bird 1.2Ghz
I had:
- ATX Case with 300Watt power supply
- Coolermaster Coolong fan for socket A chips
- 128 MB SDRam
- 40 GB Western Digital hard drive
- an old floppy drive
- Voodoo 3 PCI video
- keyboard, mouse
SOOO.... I mount the motherboard, i put in the CPU, i put a spot of goo onto the processor, i hook up the fan, i plug it in, i plug in all of the little chassis wires into the motherboard, i put in the memory, i plug in the IDE ribbon and the floppy ribbon, I plug in the voodoo 3 PCI card, i hook up the ribbons to their respective drives, i plug in the power cables from the power supply to the drives, i plug in the power cable from the power supply to the motherboard. i set all of the jumpers and switches to Auto and Default. I plug in the power supply. i plug in the keyboard and mouse. i filck the switch on the back of the power supply. the LED on the motherboard lights up. I press the power switch on the chassis, and the power supply fan powers on. i don't know what's going on now. the CPU fan won't power up, and the screen stays blank. nothing popped. there's no smoke. there's nothing out of the ordinary, except that nothing happens!! please, and suggestion is appreciated....