Date: 12/03/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: no keywords

hey, figured i'd intro

i'm sorta new at this... pc building and upgrading

anyways, i've been trying to figure out why i can't get my PC to start, it turns on, but it doesn't even kick into the basic boot where you can goto bios from, just a blank screen.

I've got...
Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard
AMD Athlon 3500 [newcastle, revision CG]
Demon 450W power supply
1 gig's woth of ram
2 HDDs
1 cd-rw
1 a drive/floppy
the bios chip is currently version 1008

through the manual i connected everything so far, and like i said it turns on. it just goes nowhere from there, i called asus and they're sending me a new 1015 bios version chip as that is the most upto date. tehy said that there is a problem witht the 3500, that one perticular ersion neads the bios beta instead of the regular.

anyways, just trying to see if anyone has an idea what might be wrong other than that

kool kool

thanks

pat inQ
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