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Just powered my new pc up, i have a green light on my motherboard. all fans are running smoothly. but i dont get picture on my monitor any ideas?
Help!!
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yes i checked them there and they are all in
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no nothing on monitor its an NEC MultiSync LCD175VXM+
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it keeps looking for the D-Sub signal which the other computer was, now its a DVI connection on the new graphics card
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it sits on an orange light but thats about it
I had exactly this symptom with some new parts yesterday; looks like one of my DIMMs was faulty. System booted fine with one of them, couldn't even post with the other. Quick enough to find out whether you've got the same problem at least ^^
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my pc is booting ok tho, theres no picture on the screen
Ah, my mistake then ^^;
I was getting all fans spinning and hard drives powering up - but no POST beeps, no hard drive access to indicate it was doing anything.
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im gettign all fans running, no beeps and nothign else
I think you should probably try pulling out some memory... if nothing changes, put that back and pull out the other stick. Quick to try at least, wish all diagnostics took 60 seconds
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bad stick of ram. does anyone know how to run MEMCHECK?
On a non-POSTing system I really don't think you can... only option is RMA. You already know it's broken from the absence of POST anyway ^^
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sorry i am not sure what u mean by RMA and POST
Do you get any beeps?
With most motherboards you should always get a single beep if the system is completing it's Power On Self Test (POST), it's intended for situations such as this where you may not be getting any visual output.
If you're not getting any beeps then either the speaker is disconnected
or there is something preventing the system even completing a self test (try just a single stick of memory, in one socket, then another stick in another socket).
If you are getting a single beep, make sure the monitor is set to the right input (and if your videocard has two outputs try the cable in the other), and if possible try another cable between the videocard and the monitor (it wouldn't be the first time a damaged cable has caused problems).
If you are getting more than a single beep post it up, or look in the motherboard manual (pretty much every beep code tells you something).
With most motherboards you should always get a single beep if the system is completing it's Power On Self Test (POST), it's intended for situations such as this where you may not be getting any visual output.
If you're not getting any beeps then either the speaker is disconnected
or there is something preventing the system even completing a self test (try just a single stick of memory, in one socket, then another stick in another socket).If you are getting a single beep, make sure the monitor is set to the right input (and if your videocard has two outputs try the cable in the other), and if possible try another cable between the videocard and the monitor (it wouldn't be the first time a damaged cable has caused problems).
If you are getting more than a single beep post it up, or look in the motherboard manual (pretty much every beep code tells you something).
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its running fine on one stick of ram now
