[Cube] Fwd: repost: monitor does not turn on

[Chris Weiss]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:37 PM, gladys pérez-almiroty <almiroty at prtc.net> wrote:
>  hi:
> i am still fiddling with my cube, the one that did a pop, turned off and
> smelled like something burned.
> i found that the PSU was bad so i got a new one. just for the fun of it used
> a different vtrm and installed a heat sink in it. i reinstalled the rest of
> the items- logic board and video card geforce m2 32mg, giga 1.4 processor
> underclocked to 1.2- but installed a new optical drive and turned the hd to
> slave.
> he cube turns on, i see the blue light form the fan and the red light form
> inside the cube, but the monitor light turns on briefly and then goes off.
> no picture or light comes on.
> checked the monitor with the other cube and works well so discarted the
> posibility of a monitor problem.
> the problem could be an improperly seated video card or video riser card,
> but i am wondering if it could be a symptom of a video card gone bad. couls
> it be something else?
> thanks in advanced,
> gladys
>

You set the HD to be the slave? I thought the HD needed to be the
Master on the IDE chain and the CD/DVD needs to be the slave?
Although, I think if you had them mis-wired, you'd get a picture with
the Mac with the blinking question mark on it (as it can't find an OS
to boot from).

-- 
-Chris