Help!!

leetsauce

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ok so we were building a computer for my freind (its pretty much the same computer as mine, so its not like it was anything new). so we got it all put together and it turned on just fine. so next i put in the windowsXP disc and set the BIOS to boot from the CD. windows installed just fine and everything. next, my two freinds went back to the BIOS because it seemed logical to them to change the boot up from CD to harddrive. after they switched from CD to harddrive on the primary and secondary boot, the computer would no longer work correctly. everything powers up but the monitor gets no signal(it just sits with the orange light) and i have no way of doing anything in BIOS of course becasue we cant even see anyhthiung. (yes we chekced all connections and we even switched cards out to make sure it wasnt the card. and help would be appreciated. thanks! (o ya, we even tried switching outth e harddirves)

by the way, the system specs are as follows:
gigabyte nforce 2
amd 2700+
512 ddr dual channel
geforce fx 5200
 
try switching the video card for another one and making sure the current one is seated properly
 
we tried that already. and made sure of all our connections... when the comp stopped working, we hadnt touched it at all it just decided to not work.
 
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well we didnt check the PSU becasue once we restart the CMOS the computer comes on. however it only wants to boot from the disk and if theres nothig in the CS dirve it just turns off... and if we put windows XP in the drive and let it boot off of that it doest get all the way through the installation it just shuts off and we have to reset the CMOS again
 
did u check the jumper settings on the hard drive (master) and the cdrom (slave) ??
this happened to me once and i changed the cables and then noticed that the jumper settings wasnt good.
 
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