[Nathans_Dad]

Ok, I was trying to do surgery on my former main PC tonight. Basically I had two PCs, one that was my main computer and the other was my old PC from about 2 years ago that I kept saying I was going to get running for my kids but never did. So, with my new iMac taking over the main computer duties, I decided to take the parts from both machines and combine them into one. My mistake was that I didn't pull all the data off the PC before I hacked into it. Anyhow, all I did was try and put the 2 PC2100 DDR RAM sticks into the newer PCs RAM Slots. It had some Mushkin RAM already in it which was faster but the slots still worked on the motherboard. So, with the 4 ram sticks in it, the thing booted to the motherboard screen (the one where you can enter setup) and then stuck there. I figured that it didn't like the RAM configuration or something. So, I changed the RAM around in the slots. Mistake here was I put one of the sticks in backwards (DOH) and didn't realize it. Turned on the machine and smelled a faint odor of electrical short. Shut it off immediately and discovered my error. I have pulled the memory out and restored the motherboard to its former configuration with the Mushkin RAM. It won't boot. It turns on, I can hear the hard drives spooling up and clicking, but nothing comes onto the monitor. I changed out the video card with an extra I had from the other machine and still no go.

Any ideas? I still have the mobo and processor from the other system, I could try and swap out the mobo and see if that solves the problem...