Hi
I have an old motherboard, which was tidy up on a shelf.
I decided to try to see if it still worked. It has no video output connector, so it has no video on board and I always used a graphics card with DVI output, mounted in the PCIE X16 slot, connected to the monitor. However, this time I can’t get any signal on the screen.
The PSU is attached to the CPU and board power connectors, the CPU fan works, I bought a stick of ram that I inserted into the first slot and I have no HD attached to the board. Because it's just to try, I mount it all over a card, above a wooden table, using an electrostatic bracelet.
I would like if you could give me some ideas to discover what may be malfunctioning.
I know that:
- the board may be dead;
- the graphics card may be dead (it's fanless, so I do not know if it has power);
- the PCIE X16 slot could have problems (I do not know how to test it);
- the ram could be dead or be incompatible (I tried it on other slots and the CPU fan always worked, I do not know if this is a symptom that the ram works or not. The motherboard site doesn't have a list of compatible memory )
I do not know if:
- I need to connect the HD to load the graphics card drives, for the graphics card to work;
- if the CPU is running.
I would appreciate your suggestions, because I've never come across a problem with a motherboard that have no video output on board.
Thank you
Motherboard
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=81
CPU
http://ark.intel.com/products/27248/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E6300-2M-Cache-1_86-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB
Graphics card
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2589#ov
memory
https://www.amazon.com/Hynix-DDR2-256MB-1Rx16-PC2-4200U-444-12/dp/B00RH497DI
I have an old motherboard, which was tidy up on a shelf.
I decided to try to see if it still worked. It has no video output connector, so it has no video on board and I always used a graphics card with DVI output, mounted in the PCIE X16 slot, connected to the monitor. However, this time I can’t get any signal on the screen.
The PSU is attached to the CPU and board power connectors, the CPU fan works, I bought a stick of ram that I inserted into the first slot and I have no HD attached to the board. Because it's just to try, I mount it all over a card, above a wooden table, using an electrostatic bracelet.
I would like if you could give me some ideas to discover what may be malfunctioning.
I know that:
- the board may be dead;
- the graphics card may be dead (it's fanless, so I do not know if it has power);
- the PCIE X16 slot could have problems (I do not know how to test it);
- the ram could be dead or be incompatible (I tried it on other slots and the CPU fan always worked, I do not know if this is a symptom that the ram works or not. The motherboard site doesn't have a list of compatible memory )
I do not know if:
- I need to connect the HD to load the graphics card drives, for the graphics card to work;
- if the CPU is running.
I would appreciate your suggestions, because I've never come across a problem with a motherboard that have no video output on board.
Thank you
Motherboard
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=81
CPU
http://ark.intel.com/products/27248/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E6300-2M-Cache-1_86-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB
Graphics card
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2589#ov
memory
https://www.amazon.com/Hynix-DDR2-256MB-1Rx16-PC2-4200U-444-12/dp/B00RH497DI