Retro machine turning on but no display

Posted by Diogodarkness1@reddit | retrobattlestations | View on Reddit | 0 comments

I recovered some computers from the local e-Waste spot, hoping that i could fix them and use them with Older windows Operating systems(95,98 etc). It is my first time messing around with older machines and it's pretty cool being honest. Anyways, there were 5 or 6 of them, i saw what was working and put it on the bigger case that i had, it ended up having 2 DVD/CD drives, one floppy drive, one of those SD card + a lot of random ports that i don't know drive, 2 IDE hard drives(both SAMSUNG 40gb, that are definitely working, i tested it in one of the working boards and it has a working windows XP and the other one doesn't boot but it shows up in the "my computer" tab) and that's about it.

The problem is, the motherboard that i choose has a 370 socket with a pentium 3 which i had one on stock already so there's two of them. It isn't displaying video, it turns on alright, it is getting power but no video is displayed on the VGA monitor, it isn't even a "no signal" issue, it's just a black screen, meanwhile the drives and the cpu cooler is working overtime(normally). It is a FIC FR33 mobo.

I tested the machine with another board and it worked flawlessly, maybe a little too slow but it booted, and there's another mobo which also doesn't display video but that one has some faulty capacitors.