First post, by appiah4
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Put together a Socket 754 system: ASUS K8V-MX (Rev 3.0), Sempron 3000+, 2x512MB DDR400, Radeon 9800, Audigy 2 ZS, Seagate 120GB IDE HDD, LG 16x DVD-RW, USB 2.0 bracket. The system booted, but there was no video. No POST codes, nothing. The power light comes on, the fans spin, the HDD light comes on, the system seeks disks in the DVD-RW and Floppy, then nothing.
I've cleared the CMOS, unplugged the USB bracket, sound card, floppy, dvd-rw, hard drive, each stick of ram, both sticks of ram (which promptly resulted in a long beep, 2x short beep POST code indicating Video Error.. Which went away after reinstalling the RAM, so I have no idea what is going on?) and removing the AGP card to boot from the onboard VGA. Nothing worked.
Things I haven't tried:
Replace the CMOS battery (it's old)
Replace the RAM (in the unlikely case that both sticks are bad)
Replace the CPU
Any ideas what the issue could be and how to proceed from here?
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