First Build, Troubleshoot!

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Right, I have finally built my system which is the following

MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £144.99 1 £144.99
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £141.66 1 £141.66
MSI Z68A-GD65-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £133.32 1 £133.32
Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower - Red Dragon Windowed Edition £72.32 1 £72.32
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99 1 £59.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £57.00 1 £57.00
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £34.99 1 £34.99
Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £27.49 1 £27.49
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £21.66 1 £21.66
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £19.99 1 £19.99
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.16 1 £14.16
DPD Next Day Parcel: £12.00
VAT: £147.92
Order Total: £887.49


I have just finished building it, and the following happens when I boot up

All fans are on
Disc Drive opens
Cant get anything to appear on the monitor

Only things I can note are that the connection of my monitor only fits on the mobos I/O panel, but not on the blue monitor connecters of the GPU

The monitor is a an older one I guess
I thought if all fans are on and discs open everthing is fine, so is this something to do with the monitor having to be plugged into the GPU?

One other thing, I am not sure that the extra SATA power cable I am using for the HDD is in the right plug on the PSU
But I dont think this would stop it going into BIOS anyway
 
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Update!

Right so I have done this, And it worked =)
And booted into the BIOS, I have 2 concerns

One is that on the very first screen that you see it says Harddisc not detected, even though it is in, and plugged in (and it also says there is a harddisc in the BIOS)

The other is that in the BIOS the CPU temperature is 42 degrees, which seems a bit high for idle
 
Yup, its weird, because in the BIOS I do see harddrive and like a code name for it
But its just when u boot it up it doesnt, could it be because boot prio is Disc >> USB >> HDD?

And hows the temperature btw
 
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