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michaelcross_91

michaelcross_91

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Hi Guys, new to posting on this forum myself like but I have been reading much of this board over the last week as I finally decided to take the plunge and build my own system. I had hoped my first posts on here would be one's of celebration after spending the last 2 days assembling all the relevant parts, following both the tutorial in these forums and the youtube tutorial of Carey Holzman (which I would recommend to anyone!) but alas it was not to be.

Now before I go any further I want to point out I have spent the last 6 hours or so scrawling the internet for solutions and followed the Troubleshooting sticky in this thread but with no luck. I will also admit I am weary about re opening the system, not being 100% sure what is wrong or what I should be looking for. Also as mentioned earlier I had wanted to join this forum for some while so this is not merely a hi and bye, any help would be really, really helpful but I understand everyone is busy and am not looking for miracles just some friendly guidance.

The Specs
my system consists of the following;

Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2-B3 Motherboard Intel Core Stock
Asus GeForce GTX 560Ti DCII/2DI/1GD5 DirectCU II 1024MB
Intel Core i5-2500 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
8GB G.Skill RipJawsX (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
OCZ ZS Series 750W 80+ Bronze Power Supply

all alongside a Hitachi 500gb Hard Drive and a Samsung Blu Ray drive, the case also lives in a BitFenix Shinobi Black Windowed Chassis.

The Problem
Now when I turn on the power button it makes a lovely humming sound, the fans on the CPU turn lovely as do the ones on the graphics card. When ANY power is attached to the system the light on the motherboard is green and all looks and sounds to be fine. Only there is no picture. Nothing at all. Hooked up by either VGI or RGA cables to my monitor, also a recent purchase, the mointor recognises no input any all inputs just reveal the 'no signal' screen before going into standby. :( Any ideas???

Additional info

I have checked the RAM, the graphics card and any power switches have been plugged in any pushed down properly. The motherboard itself sits nicely on top of the stand offs and does not touch the case in any way. It is merely a case of having no picture on the screen, the most important part! ;)

Anyway thank you for reading and for the help. I can upload any photos or any video as required, just didn't want to spam the forums. All the best, Michael
 
Have you connected the 24 + 8/4pin ATX connectors to the motherboard?

Have you given the GTX560ti both power connections from the PSU?

Have you connected the monitor to the graphic card display outputs and not the motherboards?

Try a clear CMOS?

Try one stick of RAM at a time?
 
Have you tried using the onboard graphics only? power off remove the graphics card, plug into the onboard graphics and reboot
 
Another one to try is with the graphics card, I believe it uses 2x6pin connectors?
If all above fails try using 1x 6pin power cable and use one of the 6+2pin cables (obviously just plug in the 6pin) it can be that the PSU can't push enough power down the 1 cable.
 
First things first. Be sure your connecting your Monitor to your Graphics card and not the Onboard - if it has one.

Once that's ruled out, we can move on.
 
Bigj2134 said:
First things first. Be sure your connecting your Monitor to your Graphics card and not the Onboard - if it has one.

Once that's ruled out, we can move on.
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Yes there is onboard graphics.
I would take out the graphics card and get it working with the onboard if possible first
 
stulid said:
Have you connected the 24 + 8/4pin ATX connectors to the motherboard?

Have you given the GTX560ti both power connections from the PSU?

Have you connected the monitor to the graphic card display outputs and not the motherboards?

Try a clear CMOS?

Try one stick of RAM at a time?
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^^ in bold, that's my bet, even I fell for that one when I put mine in >.> (In my defence it was 5am and I was... well lets say I had a few to many drinks lol)
 
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Here's a quick pic guys!
 
is it fixed? if not... find the wires that run from the reset button on the front of the computer and disconnect it from the motherboard and then try again. Sometimes if the reset button is faulty or not connected to the motherboard properly the computer will be stuck in a never ending reboot
 
[WU-TANG]GZA;21004566 said:
Yes DVI from back of gfx card to monitor.
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Can I close this thread, hang my head in shame, and post you all a cheque?? I tried everything, literally everything, including uninstalling ram and sorting the CMOS battery. But no, it was the input, the BLOODY INPUT :( Sometimes I can try and act so smart I just come across very stupid indeed.
 
Haha fail:D:p

If it makes you feel batter? you ain't the only person I have seen do this on this forum.
 
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