[geeks] Need Advice

[Francois Dion]

On Jan 4, 2008 7:54 AM, Ido Dubrawsky <idubraws at dubrawsky.org> wrote:
> I'm building a new PC for myself (ASUS A8V motherboard with an AMD
> Athalon 64 chip -- about 1.9 GHz).  I've installed it into the case
> (which has an Award PS-300 300W power supply). I'm using an Invidia
> 7600GT video card AGP video card with 256MB of memory. When I power on
> the system it's clear that there's power to the machine but I don't get
> a signal on the monitor nor do I hear any sounds from the speaker (i.e.
> the ever present, expected, beep).

Do you have access to the full bios options? Might need to do a
CTRL-F1 to have access to stuff like primary video etc. Also, might
want to disable something called AGP fast write. I had the same
problem with a 7600GT and Radeon HD2400 (the radeon had even more
issues later on) and that fixed it.