If you see anything on screen, then the CPU is alive - you can see how healthy in the BIOS. As far as the memory goes, you might want to go into the BIOS and have it run a full POST but it either way it will report how much memory it can find. If it's pretty much what you put into the machine (it could be a little less, if the motherboard reserves some for the on-board display), then that's OK as well.
The interesting thing is, the only way for the system to know what make of drive it is, is to ask it - and so data-wise it's OK. If the name was a little corrupted, then it would be a guaranteed cable not-plugged-in properly. Since it looks OK though, the drive is fine, and the problem is almost certainly elsewhere.
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Date: 2007-05-13 01:01 pm (UTC)The interesting thing is, the only way for the system to know what make of drive it is, is to ask it - and so data-wise it's OK. If the name was a little corrupted, then it would be a guaranteed cable not-plugged-in properly. Since it looks OK though, the drive is fine, and the problem is almost certainly elsewhere.