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I am rebuilding my pc and have bought everything new except the RAM. I don't get anything from the onboard video. The mother board and CPU are new as is the power supply. I remove the ram and I get no indication that the pc cares. No beeps or nothing. Do you think that I may have a bad mother board? It is an ABIT IP-95 motherboard.

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Several helpful suggestions are already in the thread from , , , and . The items below add focused diagnostics that were not yet covered and that will help narrow whether the fault is the mainboard/CPU, power delivery, the display path, or a short/physical defect.

Start with an out‑of‑case bench test. Place the board on a nonconductive surface, attach only the components the manual says are required for POST, and power it with a PSU you trust. This rules out a short to the case and bad front‑panel wiring. If the board has a front‑panel power header, use a screwdriver to briefly short the two power pins to rule out a faulty case switch (take electrostatic and safety precautions).

Do a careful visual inspection under good light and magnification. Look for bulged or leaking capacitors, cracked solder joints, scorch marks, misplaced standoffs, or damaged/contaminated contacts in the CPU socket. Bent or damaged CPU pins/contacts can stop POST entirely; reseat the CPU only if comfortable doing so.

Isolate firmware and power issues. Verify the motherboard’s CPU/firmware compatibility list on the manufacturer site and the available BIOS‑update options (some boards require a compatible CPU to flash or a vendor update service). Check PSU rail voltages with a multimeter or PSU tester (nominal +12V, +5V, +3.3V) or swap in a known‑good supply to eliminate intermittent power problems. Separately, confirm the display chain by testing the monitor & cable on another system and, if possible, trying a known‑good discrete graphics card in the board.

Keep a short log of each swap/test and the exact steps taken. If none of these diagnostics produce image or POST activity, provide that log to the vendor or tech service for component‑level testing or RMA.

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Member Avatar for cguan_77

does the keyboard led's flashes when you turn on? if it doesn't then it could be either a bad processor or mobo..double check all the connections maybe you just miss something..

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The keyboard does flash. All my fans power on and I think I hear the hard drive trying to spin up. I get nothing on my monitor.

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Have you got a gfx card working, or are you running out of motherboard graphics for now?

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Have you got a gfx card working, or are you running out of motherboard graphics for now?

I;m using the internat graphics card on the motherboard.

Member Avatar for Serunson

So there is no gfx card instaled?
What type of monitor is it that you have?
Has it got the correct connecter for the motherboard? Check the symbol next to the port that you are connecting it to.

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make sure you have the 4 pin Pentium 4 power plug from the power supply plugged in to the board .

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I;m using the internat graphics card on the motherboard.

I think he has used an integrated/onboard video.

See to it all the connections inside the cpu are tight and snugly connected.

No beep code sounds means no case speaker was connected in your system. Try to connect it and let's interpret the beep code.

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I think he has used an integrated/onboard video.

See to it all the connections inside the cpu are tight and snugly connected.

No beep code sounds means no case speaker was connected in your system. Try to connect it and let's interpret the beep code.

in his first post he says he's using onboard video!!!

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in his first post he says he's using onboard video!!!

Oh I see. Okay, sorry, caperjack. I missed that part.

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