blew it

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

WOW, lots of replies, great suggestions, still not working.

OK - I probably did install the IDE cable backwards on the floppy drive -
the "red" wire isn't colored very good and I was tired (dumb excuse).

This is what I did last night.

1 - checked ALL the power cables - 12V & 5V as it should be on all cables
including those to the mother board.

2 - Quick check on the 3 fuses found on the mother board (looked like
diodes) - direct short through them so I believe they are OK

3 - checked power on two pairs of labeled posts - one 12V the other 5V as
labeled

W/ Floppy drive and video back installed - no video displayed (tested
monitor on another machine - works fine).   I stuck my head in the box and
listened - no noise at all from the drive  - light only lights up if a disk
is in the drive.   Monitor is NOT taken on line, even for a second.

Found a jumper labeled => closed reset bios open normal (or something like
that)  I closed the jumper and turned power on ( I guess that is what I was
suppose to do) nothing different happened, removed jumper and booted again.
Same old thing.  Nothing.

In reply to specific questions:

With video card removed - no beep code
Tried to boot from floppy but it doesn't seem to be getting that far into
the boot process

Captain Scarlet suggested putting the simple RAM that installed with the
BIOS back in - enlighten me because you lost me there.

I've tried to boot from the CD but again it's not being accessed (no lights
either and the door will not open under it's own power)

I don't really want to throw it away and learn by my mistakes (so far I
don't know what I did, so not much learning going on)

OK, I think that's it. - one more thing it's an older computer with AMI BIOS
dated 1995 if that helps at all.


Brad