Hi all, first post here :) Just built a new system today but having a few problems, like I always do! ..... You probably have all heard this problem time and time again but anyway...All the componements inside the system, all wires/cables connected up, turn it on fan/hard drive/ CD R and the case lights go on, but I don't hear no 'beep's' from the system, and no signal is being picked up by the monitor...The motherboard has 'onboard' graphics and I've tried PCI cards, AGP Cards but nothing...I made sure I didn't scracth or damage the motherboard in anyway and it still manages to cock up! :@ I've had this problem once before with no beeps...whats going on! Also I don't know if this has anything to do with it, because im still not 100% there with computers yet! but...I was connecting the 'front panel' cables to the m'board and I noticed that there wasn't a 4 pin 'speaker' cable...they had the 'reset, power, HDD' leds but not the speaker? This is a new light up case, so are these different in some way? IM RATHER LOST BY THAT BY THE WAY! lol Also bit more information for you if it helps...im using the parts from my old system. IE: Hard Drive which still has all the files and everything on it from my old system, suppose I should off re-formatted it first! Cheers guys, hope someone can help...I got lots of hammers sitting in my toolbox and im tempted to use them! :)

Strip it down again. Benchtest the motherboard outside the case by connecting only powersupply, CPU with heatsink, 1 stick of ram, monitor and keyboard. Since you have onboard graphics don't even plug in a graphics card. Identify the power pins for the front switch wires and eother connect the wires so you can use the switch or use a screwdriver to bridge the pins to trigger startup. Can you get POST? Any display? If not then one of those components is bad. Do you have spare powersupply? Do you have spare CPU? Try a different stickof ram. Once you get it to post and boot into bios outside the case then put the mobo back in paying particular attention to the number and location of standoff supports. Get one of those in the wrong place and you can kill the board. Once board is in place reconnect the bare components listed above and boot into bios again. If successful, power off again and connect one component at a time such as axtra ram, floppy drive, harddrive etc testing after each new device to see if any problems. As to whether your old harddrive with operating system will boot in the new environment, I don't know. Personally, I would have backed up any files and formatted the drive ready for a clean instal before pulling it from the old system. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.

What he said only I would not bother taking it out of the case first. Stip it to bare bones and see if it POSTS. I would not be too concerned having killed the board. They are actually pretty resilient as are most all computer components. Jimi_l

What board is that ? Did you install standoffs for the board ? Do not type anything in this space.

If he doesn't take it out of the case then he will not know if the board is bad or if he just had it screwed in wrong. He can strip it all down and leave the board in place but once he puts all the cards and drives back together and it still doesn't power up then he won't know for sure what is bad. If he tests the board out of the case and it works then he should make sure that he is installing it correctly when he puts it back in.

Cheers for all your replys people :) I took it out of the case and guess what...I got a beep! Well a few! It was 1 long loud beep! The beeps carried on for a while.. Hopefully things should be looking up now :) Probably sounds like a darft question now but...Does the case 'speaker' wire make all the beeps, think I didn't have that connected properly.. Thanks all, will I be able to put my hammers away now? lol

You can't have it "screwed in wrong" It is either shorting out, which his hugely unlikely, or it isn't. A motherboard will POST with no standoff's just laying in the case. If he has even a few then that is not his issue. Taking it out of the case proves nothing. Not to mention that you cannot run it outside the case permently. Put it back together and figure out what component or connection was causing you greif to begin with. All you did was add work for yourself. Jimi_l