First post, by spartaneye
Hi everyone,
I've been reading the forum for a little while now and I'm stuck in a build I'm in the middle of. Originally I found a Compaq Deskpro 2000 on a sidewalk that ran fine for a while, and I upgraded it with a Diamond Stealth 2000 PCI video card and a SoundBlaster 16 (2910) ISA sound card. Everything was running pretty good, except for some hardward issues with the soundblaster, until I came home from work one day to find the screen black. I rebooted and it only would give me a series of PC speaker beeps and halt... it never displayed anything, or seemingly went into any part of the boot process. I figured (perhaps hastily, and incorrectly) that it may be that the motherboard has fried, or that leaving it too close to a subwoofer had somehow corrupted something, so I decided I just wanted to build an old machine from the ground up as a fun project. I purchased the following pieces:
enlight tower case
Biostar MB-8500TAC-A motherboard with Intel Pentium I 75mHz processor
2 sticks of 32MB EDO RAM
Mitsumi 3.5" floppy drive
generic 10/100 Ethernet PCI card
Samsung PSCD201410A PSU
and I transferred over:
SoundBlaster 16 ISA (CT-2910)
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro
old harddrive (20GB)
old CD-ROM
Today the PSU came in and I threw it together over lunch. Unfortunately, its not displaying anything, the keyboard flashes its lights, the fans turn on, the harddrive doesn't seem to spin up... any ideas of where to start trouble shooting? Any help would be appreciated, thanks guys!
- Doug