[Mouton]

Building a new computer from a mix of new and old bits...

The first time it was powered up the display output was a little garbled - white lines and dots everywhere. I managed to read the the 'edit setup' bit though. Ran the CMOS settings and again, all the wording was garbled. I scrolled through the options, which I could not read. These then set themselves straight when I happened to highlight one (unrelated) option. I did not set the CPU to overclock at any point and the case is well ventilated.


After this I had no problems installing Xp x64. Everything was running fine.


Then this morning I added an IDE drive and the bios loaded in a garbled manner again. It tried to restart once it got to the windows loading screen. I rebooted after removing the drive (in case of conflicts etc) but now it will not even boot at all. I've tried removing and resetting the memory, taking the power plugs out and reinserting, removing all hard disks and CD drives. I've tried clearing the CMOS with the CMOS jumper but all to no avail. Any ideas what's wrong?

Here's a list of everything in the case.


Biostar gf7050v-m7 mobo
Samsung 500Gb sata hdd
Intel quad q6600
2 x team elite ddr2 2Gb ram
650W PSU (sumvision powerx)
2 x IDE 40Gb hdds
LG IDE DVD-RW
LG IDE CD-RW
floppy
PCI Sound Blaster SB0100
PCI 3 port sata and IDE card

14" TFT philips s4 monitor (working perfectly with other machines)



Many thanks for any help!!!

[computeruler]

mabye the motherboard is bad becuase of the fact the BIOS were a bit messed up it could also be a bad graphics card i would say that is most likly what it is

[Mouton]

Ok cheers. I'm sending the mobo back - will let you know if the new one works!