Cant get past post screen

[schubydog]

Building a new comp and cant get past post screen. Pretty sure I have everything hooked up right, comp recognizes everything anyway. Anyone have some ideas??

[Bellbus]

Does the motherboard let off any beeps?

In a case like this you are best to strip away everything that is not needed to boot the machine.

Disconnect the Floppy & Hard Disk cables.
Remove all Cards except the Graphics.

A machine that doesn't post will usually be:

1] Memory chip not in correctly (or duff)
2] Graphics Card not in correctly (these cards need a firm push at the back)
3] The CMOS jumper (if the board has one) is set to discharge CMOS. Some new motherboards come like this as standard to save battery life while in the box.

[Hadibo]

I know the feeling. My problem was caused by not setting the correct jumper settings for the cpu clock speed. 133 instead of 266. As easy as that!!
Good luck.

[schubydog]

There are now beeps, just sits there staring at me

[Bellbus]

The sequence of bleeps can isolate the problem.

Try giving a description.

eg.
3 rapid beeps then pause

[schubydog]

figured it out, comp was trying to boot off of hard drive, switched boot sequence, things going ok