[ale] no video showing up on new system

[Erik Mathis]

It sounds like a bad mobo to me. Remove EVERYTHING from the box only
leaving the CPU and video cards and a stick of mem. If its still not
posting then swap put the mobo.

-Erik-

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven A. DuChene
<linux-clusters at mindspring.com> wrote:
> A friend gave me a new Intel DP45SG motherboard and a Q9550 Core 2 Quad processor
> so I bought what I thought would be a good set of DIMMs to go with it. The DIMMs
> are quantity 2 of DDR3 1333MHz 4GB. So I put it together in a new case and a 430W
> power supply. The system will turn on but I get no video. Looking over on-line docs
> for the motherboard I decided perhaps the 4GB DIMMs were not suited for the mother
> board so I purchased some 2GB DDR3 1333MHz DIMMs instead with high hopes that this
> would solve the no video problem. No such luck. The motherboard has an on-board
> mini speaker which I believe is where any post beep codes should come out. I am
> getting nothing from that speaker so I decided to try hooking a regular external
> speaker up to the standard audio ports to see if I was getting anything there.
> Nada, nothing, zilch.
>
> I tried two different video cards that work in other systems fine but I still get
> no video out when I power on this system.
>
> In looking over the specs for the q9550 processor I see it is supposed to have
> a 1333MHz FSB and the motherboard definitely lists support for DDR3 1333MHz memory.
>
> Anyone here have any ideas or suggestions?
> --
> Steven DuChene
>
>
>
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