03-27-2005, 07:09 PM
UPDATE:
Recent events may have changed everything. My dad discovered that the LED on the motherboard actually had nothing to do with the temperature, it showed the stages of the POST as it went through them. So we watched that, and as it started up, this is what happened:
8.3
8.7...
9C BEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
9E
9F
I have no idea where the 9C 9E and 9F came from, but the 8.7 was the last stage it got to, so we looked that up in the mobo manual, and that was the CPU core voltage. Which doesn't seem to make sense, BUT dad also noticed that our power supply doesn't meet the requirements of the motherboard. It needs "350W, 20A +5VDC". Our power supply is only 300 watts. Also, there's an 'auxilary power' connector on the motherboard that our power supply doesn't have a wire for. Dad's not sure if that's essential or not. I don't think it really matters much, being auxilary, as it says, but he's not so sure.
Anyways, it looks from this information like the computer isn't even getting to the video card stage yet. Hopefully this can all be fixed by a power supply. Maybe.
Thank you for the help so far, I've tried all of your suggestions except moving the video card into another computer to see if it works, because it just came from a working computer.
*crosses fingers* Work, dammit!
Recent events may have changed everything. My dad discovered that the LED on the motherboard actually had nothing to do with the temperature, it showed the stages of the POST as it went through them. So we watched that, and as it started up, this is what happened:
8.3
8.7...
9C BEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
9E
9F
I have no idea where the 9C 9E and 9F came from, but the 8.7 was the last stage it got to, so we looked that up in the mobo manual, and that was the CPU core voltage. Which doesn't seem to make sense, BUT dad also noticed that our power supply doesn't meet the requirements of the motherboard. It needs "350W, 20A +5VDC". Our power supply is only 300 watts. Also, there's an 'auxilary power' connector on the motherboard that our power supply doesn't have a wire for. Dad's not sure if that's essential or not. I don't think it really matters much, being auxilary, as it says, but he's not so sure.
Anyways, it looks from this information like the computer isn't even getting to the video card stage yet. Hopefully this can all be fixed by a power supply. Maybe.
Thank you for the help so far, I've tried all of your suggestions except moving the video card into another computer to see if it works, because it just came from a working computer.
*crosses fingers* Work, dammit!