Originally Posted by Yhor
Just bought a new motherboard + cpu and I have no onboard video. Problem is, I can't load drivers without video. Any suggestions please?
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Im afraid that drivers wont help in this situation if your not getting a video signal.
It doesnt matter what operating system you have installed during post (power on self test) since at this point of the boot sequence your bios hasnt passed control to your operating system and therefore it sounds like you have faulty hardware.
My suggestion would be to remove the card and any other additional cards positioned on the motherboard and power up again - you should get some indication that its testing the different hardware and give you a sequence of beeps. 1 beep = no problems found and any over that indicates a hardware problem in normal circumstances, in this test you should get more than 1 beep since you dont have a graphics card connected which would be normal while you do some tests.. the purpose of this test is to see if the post sequence is actually being performed and not locking up due to a short on an existing card.
Most common problem of no post is the memory sticks not sitting correctly in their sockets, the other biggest is some motherboards when taken from the box have their bios clear jumper set to "clear" as default - check this as it would cause problems
it needs to be set to normal
The thing to remember is your BIOS is responsible for initialising your hardware such as the graphics card, hard disc etc and the POST (Power on self test) is the phase your motherboard does this. Its not software related, your not even passed to your operating system yet. When you hear 1 beep, thats when control is passed over to your Windows.