Motherboard: MSI P965 Platinum
Processor: Core 2 Duo
Okay, so I set everything up, I have this dealie thing that tells me where the computer's getting "stuck" if it's having trouble booting (which it is). I turn it on. Fans/heatsinks go on, a couple of little clicks from within the hard drives I think I hear, I also think I hear the optical drives doing a quick search, but I get no picture on screen, and my dealie thing has four LEDs that tell me what's going on. The manual translates the current LEDs to this:
Initializing hard drive controller. THis will initialize IDE drive and controller.
Okay, what does this mean? I know the controller is on the motherboard, and the drives are what the IDE cable is plugged into (do the SATA cables have a separate controller?), but what does it mean when the computer is stuck here??? Why do I have no image on the monitor? (video card's heatsink is working and everything). What could be wrong?
I've posted this at a computer forum too, but it's slow go while people actually read the thread through (the first post is a previous problem since solved). I thought I'd try here cause we have so many great people
.I guess it's important to mention that everything except my hard drives and optical drives are brand new and as far as I've checked completely compatible, though everything else came off an inferior computer so I figured this should be backward compatible just fine you know?...