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PC WONT SHOW A THING ON SCREEN!

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Name: emilio
Date: June 9, 2002 at 12:19:31 Pacific
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hello;
i got an old 166mhz pc ,64mb ram,2gb hd so i started putting more stuff on it to make it better an install win98 on it,i got another hd (4gb)i plug it as master the 2gb one as slave so i have been having trouble with the pc cause when i turn it on the monitor wont show a thing and the pc is on i tried disconnecting the cd rom and it worked but later got the same problem.how can i fix this?



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Name: Vito
Date: June 9, 2002 at 12:31:54 Pacific
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Hi Emilio,

Your using 6 GB of HD space in total and it's possible that it could be to much for the motherboard. Which HD are you booting from? Whichever one it is, try removing the other to see if you still get the same problem.


vito@supanet.com



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Response Number 2
Name: emilio
Date: June 9, 2002 at 12:37:13 Pacific
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actually i havent been able to install nothing since this problem but i installed both hd's on the bios and the pc worked until i changed the cd rom for a faster one and started doing this again, i tried removing the cd rom and nothing,same i did removing the 2gb hd and nothing came up then i tried again with the 2g gb only on the pc and nothing worked could it be the power supply?


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Response Number 3
Name: not1
Date: June 9, 2002 at 12:58:11 Pacific
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check bios make sure it set on auto detect that is hardrive or drives


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Response Number 4
Name: emilio
Date: June 9, 2002 at 13:06:48 Pacific
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cant do that cause the pc wont turn on the monitor screen


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Response Number 5
Name: Kevin
Date: June 9, 2002 at 14:30:03 Pacific
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are you sure you didn't loosen your video card when you were switching things around?
check for a loose card and reseat them all properly


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