no video showing up on new system

[Dazed_75]

If it were me, my first thought would be to ask my friend where this new
motherboard came from.  IOW, perhaps someone had it and experienced these
problems before you.

My second thought would be to start it with NO memory in the system which
should definitely produce some beep code.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Steven A. DuChene <
linux-clusters at mindspring.com> wrote:

> A friend gave me a new Intel DP45SG motherboard and a Q9550 Core 2 Quad
> processor
> so I bought what I thought would be a good set of DIMMs to go with it. The
> DIMMs
> are quantity 2 of DDR3 1333MHz 4GB. So I put it together in a new case and
> a 430W
> power supply. The system will turn on but I get no video. Looking over
> on-line docs
> for the motherboard I decided perhaps the 4GB DIMMs were not suited for
> the mother
> board so I purchased some 2GB DDR3 1333MHz DIMMs instead with high hopes
> that this
> would solve the no video problem. No such luck. The motherboard has an
> on-board
> mini speaker which I believe is where any post beep codes should come out.
> I am
> getting nothing from that speaker so I decided to try hooking a regular
> external
> speaker up to the standard audio ports to see if I was getting anything
> there.
> Nada, nothing, zilch.
>
> I tried two different video cards that work in other systems fine but I
> still get
> no video out when I power on this system.
>
> In looking over the specs for the q9550 processor I see it is supposed to
> have
> a 1333MHz FSB and the motherboard definitely lists support for DDR3
> 1333MHz memory.
>
> Anyone here have any ideas or suggestions?
> --
> Steven DuChene
>
>
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