First Build, Troubleshoot!

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:20

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
Chosen Option
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

jamesy505 · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:22

I had similar problem. Did your graphics card come with a DVI adatper to allow plugging your monitor straight into the card?

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:23

With a graphics card inserted the onboard graphics of the motherboard /CPU are disabled untill the software is installed (Lucid)

This will be why theres no display with the monitor attached to the motherboard.

Why cant you connect the monitor to the GTX560ti?

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:24

It is an Older connection, it connects to my old 9600GSO. tommorow I might try that in there, or maybe I shld just try the onbard

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:25

FinalSquall said:
It is an Older connection, it connects to my old 9600GSO. tommorow I might try that in there, or maybe I shld just try the onbard

There is a DVI to VGA adapter in the box.

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:26

Can you link me an image of one?

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:27

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_560_Twin_Frozr_II/2.html

Bottom image. the little white thing next to the little Black thing.

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:29

Gotta say, I dont think I got one of them with it, =/, I will have a look in the morning though

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:30

But does the fans working and disc opening mean it must be this, or is there still a chance its something else?

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:31

You must have the monitor connected to the graphics card.

Or, remove the graphics card and connect to the motherboard.

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:32

K mate, and this must be the issue, it cant be the CPU or Mobo or anything?

It will help me sleep if not lol

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:33

Not until you have done the above can you move on.

The Adapter must be somewhere.

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:35

Ok mate, will update the thread tomorrow after I try, I did move the GPU from one slot to the other, but I guess it wouldnt matter what PCI-E slot it was in

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:37

There is no other answer.

The monitor MUST be connected to it.

Put the card in the top Blue slot.

Only until you have done this and theres still no display can we move on assuming other things.

FinalSquall · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:39

Hehe will try it tomoz, thanks Stu, man do I hope it works or I will be baffled lol

Well RAM tests etc I guess

Night for now!

Randomface74 · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:52

This isn't working because you've connected your monitor's VGA cable to your motherboard's onboard VGA.

You should have instead used a VGA->DVI adapter to connect your monitor's VGA to one of the DVI outputs on your graphics card.

You must do it as I've described. If you haven't got a VGA->DVI adapter you'll have to get one.

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 01:56

billysielu said:
This isn't working because you've connected your monitor's VGA cable to your motherboard's onboard VGA.

You should have instead used a VGA->DVI adapter to connect your monitor's VGA to one of the DVI outputs on your graphics card.

You must do it as I've described. If you haven't got a VGA->DVI adapter you'll have to get one.

I have explained this already above

Randomface74 · 20 Aug 2011 at 02:03

Yeah just wanted to make it a bit clearer, easy to lose the detail over several posts.

(It's better when I say it

)

stulid · 20 Aug 2011 at 02:05

Fair enough, I shall quote it for added impact.

This isn't working because you've connected your monitor's VGA cable to your motherboard's onboard VGA.

You should have instead used a VGA->DVI adapter to connect your monitor's VGA to one of the DVI outputs on your graphics card.

You must do it as I've described. If you haven't got a VGA->DVI adapter you'll have to get one.

Randomface74 · 20 Aug 2011 at 02:07

Christ I felt the impact from here!