P4VMM2 with power,no video

[joward]

how can i fix it? some one can help me :?

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[Marty_KN0CK]

Howdy,

You may be seeing the SAME problem that I just saw with my motherboard
and a fellow Google reviewer (Paul) helped me greatly to solve - - You
may be trying to boot your machine with fast memory installed, but
your motherboard may have the slowest RAM settings enabled by
default. First thing to do is remove your memory from the motherboard
and then make sure you have your PC speaker connected to the
motherboard. If the board boots up and then signals a tone from the
speaker or a series of 'beeps', then you're halfway there. It means
that your machine's CPU is trying to run from BIOS commands as it
starts up, but it's signalling that there's no memory
installed....that's a good thing.

Next if you have some slower memory DDR2 memory from an older machine
(like PC3200, PC4200, etc) try putting one stick of it in the DIMM1
slot and try booting your machine. You should see a startup screen on
your machine since the slower RAM will be better accepted by the
default BIOS settings that are there now - - you'll eventually have to
set the RAM speed up to the what you new memory is based on (PC6400,
etc) by adjusting the BIOS RAM speed in the settings, save that
setting, and then shut off the machine. Install your faster memory
and then reboot - should work with the faster memory.

But it all hinges if you have the processor installed correctly, the
fan is mounted right, everything is connected up on the ATX and 12V
connectors on the motherboard, etc. Just do all that first (check
everything) then do the above checks with slower RAM installed to JUST
get started. That's what Paul told me to do with mine and I got mine
to boot GREAT!

Hang in there and let us know if you have joy getting your mobo
running -

Marty

[Paul]

joward wrote:
>
> P4VMM2 with power,no video

>
> how can i fix it? some one can help me :?
>

Check the condition of the capacitors. Look for
bulging on the tops. Also look for a brown stain
underneath the capacitor, where the liquid has run
out and dried on the motherboard. There is a picture
here, showing what to look for.

http://www.badcaps.net/images/caps/kt7/image004.png

The capacitors to check, would be the three on the
right of the following picture, and the four above
the processor socket. There are other capacitors on
the motherboard you can also check, but they are
not under as much stress as the capacitors next
to the processor socket.

http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2003/08/25/big_business/ecs-board.jpg

It would help, if you could provide additional symptoms
leading up to the current state of the system. For
example, did you hear a "police siren" noise coming
from the computer case speaker ?

Paul