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I'm baaaaaaaaaack and the problems aren't going away.

After the suggestion that my problems may have originated with my installation of Lubuntu 17.10 which altered my motherboard BIOS, I went back and unboxed a brand new ASUS M5A97 Plus motherboard (I have several M5A-series motherboards and thought I'd go ahead and standardize) and transferred the CPU, memory, PS, video card, HDDs and CD/DVD burner into the same case as before.

No video -- on either the monitor or the TV (tried both) -- no accepted keyboard or mouse input (either USB or PS/2). I have a Debian 9.2 Live CD in the CD/DVD player/burner which gets seen first and continues to spin.

- I've tried starting with memory in both slots A1+A2 and A1+B1.

- I've tried starting with just one 8Gb stick of memory in slot A1.

- I've verified that the memory timing is the same as the brand-name memory specified by the motherboard manufacturer

- I've tried two different Nvidia video cards.

- I've tried an ASUS monitor and TV

- I've tried straght HDMI <-> HDMI and DVI <-> HDMI cable connections as well as three different HDMI cables of varying ages (including one new cable purchased during the wek).

- I've tried two different power supplies.

- I've tried with a ground wire screwed into the power supply case and not.

- The electrician who wired this house has checked the wiring and says that the 2-wire sockets are all grounded through the left prong of every connector.

About the only thing I haven't tried is exchanging out the CD/DVD player.

As noted previously, this was a working system before I tried checking and SSD from annother box.

What can I try from here ... ?

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[tlug] NOT SOLVED: BIOS / Video not fixed