Glad it's explainable at least. Would hate to have it magically work suddenly
On Saturday, 23 January 2016, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > My friend just rang to say he got the new box working, but in a way the > confused and worried him. He also could get no video out of the > motherboard, so in desperation he stuck a video card in, and it worked. > Then in the BIOS screen he set it to use "onboard video" (which normally > has to be the default), after which it works without the video card. So how > stupid is that?! A perfect Catch-22 .. you can't configure the video to > work until you get the video working. Sheesh! I'wondering if the ASRock > board come out of the factory with the wrong settings -- *GK* > > On 23 January 2016 at 17:43, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@outlook.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','il.tho...@outlook.com');>> wrote: > >> We couldn't even get the BIOS screen to show -- *GK* >> >> That’s tell-tale for RAM not seated, and/or CPU. I’m not sure with these >> new MBs whether there is a connection to a speaker but it was used as a >> useful fault detection by a pattern of “beeps”. Your MB’s guide may show a >> pattern of LEDs for fault diagnosis (green/red lights on the board). >> >> >> >> Ian Thomas >> >> Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia >> >> >> > >
