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No Display Problems

Juneau

Juneau

Juneau

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Hi guys, as you may know I've bought my PC parts recently and started building them together. I'm on the last few parts now (graphics card, PSU, optical drive) and have encountered a problem. The PC boots fine but there is no display, so I can't see the screen picture or whatever.

Is this because the Graphics Card is brand new, and that the Hard Drive is also brand new. I'm not that wised up but I thought it would surely be able to get to the BIOS even though there is no operating system on the Hard Drive. I just can't understand how there is no display when I've put the graphics card in the proper place and what not!

Any help pleaaaaase! Thanks!
 
the cable from the PSU? Sorry if that sounds dumb!

This might sound strange, but the cable I used in the SATA Hard Drive (only one that seems to fit) is needed to be in the graphics card port to power the computer up. If I put this in the PSU ports then the PC doesn't start.
 
Juneau said:
the cable from the PSU? Sorry if that sounds dumb!

This might sound strange, but the cable I used in the SATA Hard Drive (only one that seems to fit) is needed to be in the graphics card port to power the computer up. If I put this in the PSU ports then the PC doesn't start.
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Im struggling to understand what you saying here, is it a new graphics card installed it sould have a pci-e power port on the card.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/pcie6plus2.jpg
^^
should be a cable from your psu looks something like that needs plugging in.

While your at it post your full system specs.
 
Well I guessed it was a fine boot by it not making any horrible noises, but I'm probably wrong there!

It is a completely new build. Apart from the guy having sorted the motherboard and processor into the case, the rest of the parts are new.

The graphics card has two power ports, I have power into both of them, but one of them is from the hard drive. That sounds strange but I can't get it to power up If I hook the power cable for the Hard Drive to go to the PSU ports. I've definitely plugged in both motherboard cables.

My specs are:

Coolermaster CM 690 II Advanced Case
Asus P6TD Deluxe Motherboard
i7 Core 920 Processor
4GB Corsair (2 x 2GB) RAM DDR3
Samsung F3 1TB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 5850 Twin Frozr II Graphics Card
Samsung 22x DVD RW+ IDE Optical Drive
 
but one of them is from the hard drive.
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I dont understand the pci e cables are totally different from the hard drive power cables or am i missing something, what psu is it?
 
Hi guys, I followed what a guy from another forums said about the graphics card and it's two ports. I hooked up two power cables into there and the PSU, and then put the Hard Drive power cable into the PSU also. This has worked! However, there is bad news to come...

Although in the BIOS the Hard Drive is detected (in SATA 1 out of 6), when it comes to booting, it doesn't detect a Hard-Drive.

I come to this error ' Adapater 1: Disk Information. No Hard Drive detected!'

Then it will go to a screen saying:

Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key'.

I'm really clueless as to what to do! I've checked the Priority and it is set to Hard-Drive as the number one priority followed by the Optical Drive and then a Removeable device. Any help?!
 
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