The monitor is also connected to my Linux box - has both DVI and VGA inputs, VGA connected to Linux box, been using DVI on this card. A bad dvi/vga cable should still let it attempt to boot, there would just be no indication. I get no indication post powerup that anything is happening other than the DVD noising through its startup headhunting. Monitor is good, so using a replacement video board should identify if it was a video issue. Mobo uses PCIE and board is in a x16 slot. I could try the other x16 slot I suppose. The mobo has indicator leds that light different leds as it steps through POST. They are not ‘stepping’. All four of them come on at power up and do not change. The USB ports are not initializing - no led on the mouse.
There are 4 8gig ram cards. Went through them one at a time since it is highly unlikely - but yes not impossible - that all four cards developed an issue simultaneously. Machine should show some life if any one of them was good when plugged in one at a time- nada.
No on board video so no other output or BIOS setting, but if that were the case, you would think it would still show those leds stepping up to the point of flagging the video. And as far as I know the ‘beep’ codes are still in the bios so I should be getting some audio indication after I hooked up the ‘speaker’ to the header.
I do have one or two suitable processors I could plug in but that involves undoing the liquid cooling which while not impossible is a bit more involved than removing a heatsink and lifting the lever on the socket. (That in itself gives me permission to get a new mobo/processor. ;-)
Thanks to the late Igor, I understood most of what you two were talking about. The parts I didn’t understand, he could have explained to me. For a nano-second, I missed him. Then I came back to reality.
Thanks for reminding me there are other things in life outside the four walls of this apartment. :o])
OK. I’m almost out. I have had electronics on a plug-in be so bad that the MOBO couldn’t process, which is why I suggested some of the tips. I have had the process of evaluating whether any video was available just get stuck (no, I didn’t put an HP analyzer on it, just assumed that’s what was happening) so the BIOS couldn’t continue its boot and light LEDs.
I didn’t realize you had a KVM. Did you swap which machine was tied to which port? Maybe the KVM is doing you wrong.