tinkered with internal hardware, Now when it boots i get blank screen

[toad70]

Here are the specs:

HP desktop PC with an asus mobo; P4G533LA
2.20ghz Intel Celeron socket 478
PC 2100 DDR RAM (one 512mb and one 256mb)
Windows xp Home Ed. Serv. pack 1
integrated audio and video
etc., etc.

Well, At any rate, basically that particular day i decided to assault this poor comp with a whole slew of fresh ideas...and hardware. The first I believe was to install a new (well sorta) vid card...(heh, a very used and abused Voodoo 5...but whatcha gonna do). My second idea was adding an old 6 gig hard drive...(blank, formatted, paperweight)...as storage I suppose...and thats as far as my ideas went that day. So i opened the very cramped case...and upon peering inside i noticed that the heatsink for the CPU was in the way of the HD bays...so i removed it, took out the bay (which you can in this particular HP case), and added the 6 gigger...then i replaced the heatsink and began rearanging the various PCI cards to better fit the Monstrous Voodoo 5...of which i also installed. So, after all this installing and basic messing about..i decided to turn the darn thing on...which it did...but all i get is a blank screen...(i.e. amber light instead of green on the monitor) and some whirs and clicks from the HD's and cd-rom but thats it...

...and well thats it...what the hell is wrong?

oh and sorry for the lengthy post...im very descriptive...
-shrugs-

 

[cdlvj]

Changed the bios settings for the PCI Video?

 

[Philly44]

When you say you installed a another video card, did you take the old one out? If not the video is prbobaly working on that VGA port on not on the Voodoo. If you did take it out I would suggest that you undue everything you did and see if maybe thats where the problem is.

 

[paparazi]

I think you changed too many things all at once!
Swopping the PCI cards around certainly wouldn't have helped!
Also, from memory I believe the Voodoo 5 was one of the first VGA cards to require a seperate power connector to work, is it connected?
If you can remember, try replacing the PCI cards back in their original positions.
Also, are you sure your power suppy is up to the job?
Are your hard drives configured correctly? with the 6GB in there you may have to change jumpers on the master to set "master with slave present" applies on some HDD types.
Martin


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