I have just builded a new computer, for some reason it wont display anything on the monitor.

When I switch the power on, I can hear few beeps (like 8 times) - I am not too sure why that happen. I tried to take out all the ram out and switch power back on again then there was no beeps!

So what could be wrong? ram? grapic card?

What motherboard do you have? Look up the error codes. Usually a long beep followed by 3 short beeps means no video.

Make sure your video card is properly seated.

I got this motherboard http://www.pcchips.com.tw/product/M848Av21.html

video card is properly seated..

Ack, I don't care for those boards at all. Decent experience with one, but a couple of others were nothing more than paperweights.

Anyway, we need to know more than just "around" x number of beeps. The number of tones and if they are short or long will help in figuring out the problem.

If you have the motherboard's manual, look up the errors in there. It tells you what the different numbers of beeps mean.

If this is your first time building a computer, don't worry as many people have first time trouble, mainly to do with the motherboard (because it has the most configurations).

Saying that, the first time I built a PC, I had no problems :stickout:

http://www.sysopt.com/biosbmc.html

8 beeps - Display Memory Read/Write Failure - Indicates a memory error on the video adapter. Try re-seating the video card. If it still beeps, try replacing the video card or the memory on the video card.

Well motherboard manual mention nothing about error codes..

I think it was 8 short beeps.

The boards come with little to no documentation and the BIOS allows for very little editing. Another problem I have with them.

Hav eyou tried swapping video cards? It is definitely a video problem, but you can try swapping for a known good card.

Coach: Why there was no beep's when I removed all the ram's on the motherboard?

put ram back on, beeps again...

buts you might be right, video card problem maybe.

try adding a new ram stick to eliminate the ram as a problem.

I too agree it's a video problem.

When you remove the RAM, the board is not going to recognize the video card problem. On boot it checks memory first.

Ya right! it is video card problem!! I bought a new video card and bingo!! it works :) thanks guy!



I am just having 1 little problem I am bit confused...

The CPU I bought: AMD Athlon XP2400 266FSB 256Cache
but the BIOS say I have, AMD Athlon(tm)XP 1800+

on windows system properties, it say I have
AMD Athlon(tm)XP 1800+ (1.50GHz)


somthing wrong?

Try changing the CPU Frequency in the BIOS.

Nevermind it work ;)

What is average normal CPU temperature?

mine around 40