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Eddie Haskell

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My nephew had some puter issues and I thought I could make it work for him but I'm running into a brick wall. He replaced the Mobo and said it wouldn't boot for him so I unhooked all the cables and such and then put everything back where it was supposed to go according to the manual and then tried to boot but I get no post. The fan and all the lights come on but I get nothing on the screen. I tried a different (Known to work) video card and still nothing, tried removing each stick of ram and trading slots, still nothing. The only indication I get toward the possible problem is that the Mobo has a red light and a green light on it and they are both lit. I have never seen a red light lit on a Mobo before but I can't find any info on what that would represent either...any ideas? Oh yeah, Abit IS7-E2G Mobo
 
Were both the video cards somehow 3.3V ? Abit has a feature on it where it prevents startup if it detects a 3.3V card pretty sure that red light means it's a 3.3v in a 1.5v slot. The manual should tell you what the red light really means.
 
They were still making 3.3V cards up into 2000 I believe. The Kyro2 is the last 3.3V card that I have, I don't really know what other cards ARE 3.3V.
 
Does it sound like the computer is booting? (ie. hear the single beep from the PC speaker for a post success) If not, it sounds like a missing ATX12
 
I'll check that out, aren't 3.3V cards pretty rare?
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Nope .. quite popular back in the day... and sometimes the boxes can be stupid cuz theirs two types of voltages associated with a video card ... signaling and data (and they are different). Most AGP Pro cards are 3.3V
 
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