I just built a computer, it powers on fine, but no video It is: AMD athlon 1.4GHZ processor CoolMaster WaveMaster case COOLMAX 120MM SILENT FAN BLACK ATX POWER SUPPLY CX-350B DVD+R/DVD+RW/CD+RW drive disc drive from a working eMac 2 20GB hard drives a 32MB video card 512MB ram NO OS INSTALLED Any help would be appreciated PS: If you want to know, all the parts together cost about $100
Could be anything on a PC that old, faulty CPU, motherboard, RAM or Video card. You've also got a pretty bad PSU which could potentially go bang at any moment, so I'd be careful of that.
I found out that the motherboard boots from a PCI graphics card by default, and im using an AGP one so i believe that is why it gets no signal. oh and im planning to swap the processor with an AMD athlon that i have laying around (1.9ghz)
its not a bad PSU, and i got the case + the power supply + the dvd+r/dvd+rw/cd+rw drive for $40 Prices i found online (not minimum, but the ones i found) Case = $80 Power supply = ?? (saw it for around $200 i think) dvd drive = not very much (didn't look for it, because i couldn't find the manufacturer on it)
Well... if it is, should i replace it? Im eventually gonna upgrade it, but i dont have a very high budget Is it bad for running linux, because im going to run linux then eventually upgrade the cpu, ram, PSU, and HDDs,
I wouldn't recommend it for any PC, no matter what it's used for, I'd strongly recommend changing it for a 380W Antec EarthWatts right away.
ok.. i guess ill change the PSU, and get linux on it after i get a PCI graphics card any ok PSUs for under $40?
