Major Problems!

[KRAMER]

First a little history. I had an AMD-K6 system that evidently got some lightning damage, modem fried, couldn't print. So I got a barebone PPGA Celeron 400 on a Abit BH6, cdrom and floppy. That's when the problems really started. The first thing is that it consistently will not do anything when I turn it on. It just says "NO SIGNAL INPUT" on the screen. After a few on/off's it will boot. I reformatted and put Win95/Win98 SE upgrade on. Then I had problems with lock-ups. I replaced my 64m PC-100 with a new 128m 8ns PC-100. That seemed to help, but I still had the startup problem. I borrowed a friends STB Velocity AGP card to see if that would help the startup problem, my old one is a PCI card. And I took out all the other cards. I couldn't get it to POST at all with the AGP card. I put mine back in and after a few on/off's it booted. I have tried a different monitor, but that didn't help. I have reseated the Slotket and everything else. On top of all that my "C" drive crashed and has to be replaced. And my I was unable to install windows on my other drive because of write errors. It has been just one problem after another. What the hell could be going on. Mobo, pwr supply, processor bad? I have consulted the vendor, but they aren't a big help. Any ideas to try and pin down the problem would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! Sorry for the long post, but it's a big problem. Thanks.

[jbyron]

sounds more like a power supply proublem then a drive

[SoopaStar]

holy *****. that is crazy. first of all, if you have any parts in your PC that got struck by lightening..take them out. that removes that problem. next i have a BX6. I have also have a micronics c300. i found out that to even get it to boot with video i had to have an AGP card. a PCI just would not work for the video until it had an AGP. wierd i know..but it happened.
but..your problems are beyond that. Ever think that maybe your motherboard is bad?

SS

and it could be the power supply..but you are getting power..so it sounds okay to me.

[welsh wizard]

hi
if you sys did take a hit from lightning, salvageing any part to use with new cpu and mobo is risky, they could end up frying the new stuff, if pos try setting it up only useing new cards and power supply. watch out for the old power supply if it took a hit and is still powering up the mobo, get it checked out to make sure the power is not coming through high and frying up any thing you put to it.

[KRAMER]

Thanks for the replies. I guess that I should have mentioned that I got a whole new case as well. So the PS is brand new, but it could be a bad one. Something else to mention is that most of the time when I enter then exit the BIOS, it doesn't restart on its own, I have to shut it down. Maybe a bad Mobo?

[welsh wizard]

hi
try this
make sure video card is not in slot next to AGP slot, also try swaping it to other slots, if you have any jumpers on video card recheck there config.

[chuckiechan]

I would check the power output with a volt meter. + / - 1/2 volt is probably ok @ 12 V.

Good luck...

[MadMatt]

Were you using a surge protector when the lightning struck? If so, are you still using the SAME one?

[KRAMER]

I had an old surge protector without any phone line protection. I assume that's where the lightning came in because the modem got fried and our answering machine got hit also. I bought a new surge protector with phone line protection. I didn't plug the new computer in to the old one at all.