MSN K8N Neo 2 platinum & AMD 3700+ San Diego

Ok guys, first of all, my specs are listed at the bottom. When everything was all connected, I turned on my computer and nothing showed up on the screen. The hard drive was working and there was power to the mobo. What do u think is the problem?  IF i need a bios update, how do i update it if i cant even see anything on the screen? Thanks guys.
AMD 3700+ San Diego
MSI Neo Platinum 2
OCZ PC3200 DDR400 EL platinum Rev 2.0 ( 2 x 512MB)
BFG 6800OC
WD 200GB SATA
OCZ Power Stream 520W
Antec P160

Quote from: leesouth on 15-June-05, 20:42:31
i had this problem when i put a sata drive on my computer. i downloaded the sata driver from msi live update, installed it and that fixed my problem.
This can't be driver related. How can a driver have an effect at POST?
Turok_t,
Before you consider going through all of the below, try removing the motherboard from the case and place it on the antistatic bag the board came with and try to POST with only the CPU, 1 stick of RAM, VGA. No drives connected at all.
What thermal interface material are you using? Paste or the pad that came on the retail heatsink? (Assuming you have the retail version of the heatsink installed)
48c is slightly warm but not bad, perhaps the room temperature is warm where you live?
You could try reseating your CPU and heatsink.
If you are using the thermal pad that came with the heatsink, I suggest you leave the unit powered on for a while to heat up the interface pad, as the materail can be very sticky when cool and take your CPU right out of the socket if you are not careful. This should soften the material slightly so you can gently remove the heatsink, and if there is a little room, try rotating the heatsink a little befor removing it. That should help alleviate some of the surface tension created from the adhesion. Before you do this, I suggest you get some Arctic Silver 5 as you cannot re-use the stock thermal pad.

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