First post, by CapnCrunch53
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Hi guys, after some annoying setbacks and problems, I finally got my Voodoo5 machine built, fired it up, and... can't get anything to display on the screen. Nada. The fans on the card spin up, both with and without the molex power connector. I've reinserted the power cable a couple of times, and tried a different plug as well. I reset the CMOS via the jumper in case it was trying to use PCI or something. I think I wired the PC speaker wrong, but I believe it is posting successfully since the numlock and capslock keys seem to work. I know these things can be a bit picky, so is there anything obviously wrong with my hardware setup?
Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) with Thermaltake A1998
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (MS-6380E Ver 1.0)
2x1GB Unigen ECC DDR modules (I believe these should work with this board, right? I'm using them because they came with the first board I bought for this system, an A7N333-X that I mistakenly bought, not realizing the X version didn't support AGP 3.3V)
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
Creative Sound Blaster Live!
Linksys ethernet card (don't recall the model)
120GB Maxtor IDE hard drive
Generic DVD-ROM and 3.5" floppy drives
Thermaltake 430W TR2
Raidmax Tornado ATX-238WR
The ebay seller from whom I bought the Voodoo said it worked when pulled, but he didn't have a system to test it on now. He had a perfect rating, so I'm inclined to trust him. I did not notice any damage to the card when I inspected it before the build, but I will take it out and look more thoroughly. I'm not looking forward to that since for some reason, it's really hard to get the expansion card brackets to go all the way in on this case.
Anything else I should look for?
PCs, Macs, old and new... too much stuff.