Competitors

You can't mention competitors or link to anywhere that does I'm afraid. However you can copy/paste his post/s and remove any mention of their names.
 
Him

I've set everything up, but... nothing comes up on screen. The CPU, etc everything inside seems to be running... but nothing comes up on screen.

Is it because I am using a PCI GFX card?
Whereas you should be using a PCI-E16 or PCI-E GFX card???

Please help, or is there anything else I should re-check, I checjed the PCI GFX card again. Thanks

Me

I would doubt it.

Did you connect the 4pin power cable to the motherboard ?

If you want to see if its the PCI Graphics card then take it out and connect monitor to onboard video connector.

Him

I was chedcking online and they always mention the PCI-Ex16 slot for GFX.

Yeah we did add the 4-pin to the motherbarod,a long witrh the 20 pin one,

THe motherboard does not come with onboard video, does it??? I dont think so, no VGA out of the motherboard.

Thanks for the help though

Me

Does the system make any beeps when turned on.

Have you tried the system with only 1 stick of ram in ?

Edit
Also another thing to try is just have the memory/cpu/graphics connected up and then see if it runs (Dont connect IDE/SATA stuff or any other cards).

If no result then try again with the motherboard outside the case, it could be that its touching the inside of the case somewhere.

Him

No beeps!?! I don't think I found anything on my mboard that has a beeping speakier on antyhing?

I only have 1 stick of RAM anyway.

I'll try that thing, its a friends, so its at his house, so I'll phone and ask him.

Me

There should be a speaker wire to connect to the motherboard from the case if you connect that then you will hear the beeps.

There are different sequence of beeps for different problems it could help out quite a bit.

Him

Yeah it is connected, no beeps.

And got the new GFX card, and it still don't work...

What are the other lilely problems? YOu said something about touching the motherboard?
 
Really stupid but has he checked things like the monitor is turned on, faulty etc?

Is there any beep errors if he boots without the GFX? Maybe the GFX is dead.

I would recommend rebuilding again to make sure nothing has been missed/overlooked. Like you said he needs to build in minimum hardware to diagnose potential faults.
 
Its good to provide PC specs?

& PCI & PCI-E are 2 different things!
Wikipedia said:
The PCI bus is common in modern PCs, where it has displaced ISA and VESA Local Bus as the standard expansion bus, but it also appears in many other computer types. The bus will eventually be succeeded by PCI Express, which is standard in most new computers, and other technologies.
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:)
 
There's no problem linking to other forums as long as their not associated with other PC shops or the content isn't otherwise suitable for here.

Jokester
 
Jesus this competitor thing is really annoying.

Avforums is not associated as far as I am aware with anyone.

ok page 2 is where he asks for help and there is no links or anything and he purchased a new PCI-E Grapchics card.

Link removed.

Page 1 has ordering summarys with just the parts and price so if you want to know specs see that I really dont feel like typing it all out.

If link is not ok to be posted feel free to remove it.

Loads of competitors there bud, try to be more careful!

Zefan.
 
LOL lots of competitors, too jokes!

either way get him to register here, and everyone can help him better. no offence but going through a middle man just makes it long.
 
alphaomega16 said:
are you being serious or joking ?

If serious I will remove it.
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Don't worry about it. On the other hand I don't think you're going to get much serious help here unless the OP from the other forum actually comes over and asks for it himself. General human apathy considered ...
 
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