Re: No video

When your PSU fried, it apparently and understandably took the motherboard
with it.

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DaveW
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Hi all

I have an old 166Mhz Pentium with 128 MB or RAM which I was using as a
Linux server and general play around box. I bought it while I was
living in the USA. I have now moved to South Africa. I finally got
around to getting all my computers set up and connected. On this box,
alas, I forgot to switch the power supply from US 110V to SA 220V.
Oops!

I assumed the power supply was fried. It would not come on at all,
totally dead. So I replaced it with a locally bought 300w power
supply. Well it now comes on. The fans are turning and the hard drive
light comes on. It seems to go through the boot process. But I have no
video at all. Not even during the BIOS stage of the system start.

The monitor is OK. tested it with another PC. I am not getting any
startup errors beeps. It appears to be posting. I just have no video
at all.

I replaced the video card, which is an AGP card, with another old
card. No luck. Tried an even older PCI video card. Still no luck.

I tried resetting the motherboard by holding the power button in for
60 seconds while the system was off. Is my motherboard fried?

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Harry



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