An inexpensive P4VGM system is born finally

I learn something new almost every day!

I just put together a P4VGM with a Celeron 2.8 for my daughter. (love those
rebates)
That is one tiny CPU too!
New Soyo case with power supply, mouse, speakers and keyboard. (love those
rebates)
Centon PC2100 256mb ram (love those rebates)
New CPU fan
Old Maxtor 2.5 gig (just for the moment)
Win XP (just testing the system out with it)

I tried to boot it up the first time, got power light, fans coming on, but
no beeps nor video! Back to sticking my head in the manual and rechecking
the connections. Then removing the MB and any unnecessary wires going to
it. Then trying a few different video cards................nothing.
I hooked up the long power lead, but guess what I didn't hook up the first
time. <) lol
IMHO That MB manual sucks!!!
NO WHERE in the manual does it say to hook up that OTHER power lead! Or I
missed seeing it several times.
While surfing for answers on the internet I possibly saw the problem.......2
power leads!
After installing the square power lead, it came to life and I experienced no
other problems.

Now my question is...........what is the largest hard drive this MB can
accept?

TIA,
dave
BTW my daughter likes it. I had set it up so she saw it working with her
favorite game on it when she woke up this AM. A happy surprise for her and
now she doesn't need to use mine!!!!! <BG>

"dave AKA vwdoc1" wrote in message ...

Well the P4VGM is a new motherboard so you should have no problems
installing a large capacity hard drive (over 137 gig)on this system.
As to the manual, there is no manual for this motherboard, only a
quick start guide and yes they don't have much information in them.
It's one of the biggest complaints I have with Soyo. Later they will
come out with a manual and it will only be avalible on the web site
(but it's not there yet). But the quick start guide does make a
reference to using a P-4 ATX 12V compatible power supply and that
difference between it and a normal ATX power supply is that little
four pin square connector that must be used with the P-4 and P-4 based
Celerons. But if you have never built a P-4 based system how are you
to know? The first time I saw a Soyo motherboard come without a manual
was with the original P4I-845PE and I've had many people ask me why
they sell boards with only a quick start guide my reply, there getting
to cheap to include one

 > I learn something new almost every day!
 >
 > I just put together a P4VGM with a Celeron 2.8 for my daughter. (love those
 > rebates)
 > That is one tiny CPU too!
 > New Soyo case with power supply, mouse, speakers and keyboard. (love those
 > rebates)
 > Centon PC2100 256mb ram (love those rebates)
 > New CPU fan
 > Old Maxtor 2.5 gig (just for the moment)
 > Win XP (just testing the system out with it)
 >
 > I tried to boot it up the first time, got power light, fans coming on, but
 > no beeps nor video! Back to sticking my head in the manual and rechecking
 > the connections. Then removing the MB and any unnecessary wires going to
 > it. Then trying a few different video cards................nothing.
 > I hooked up the long power lead, but guess what I didn't hook up the first
 > time. <) lol
 > IMHO That MB manual sucks!!!
 > NO WHERE in the manual does it say to hook up that OTHER power lead! Or I
 > missed seeing it several times.
 > While surfing for answers on the internet I possibly saw the problem.......2
 > power leads!
 > After installing the square power lead, it came to life and I experienced no
 > other problems.
 >
 > Now my question is...........what is the largest hard drive this MB can
 > accept?
 >
 > TIA,
 > dave
 > BTW my daughter likes it. I had set it up so she saw it working with her
 > favorite game on it when she woke up this AM. A happy surprise for her and
 > now she doesn't need to use mine!!!!! <BG>