HELP WITH BUILD

DazWass · 17 Apr 2010 at 22:29

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3)
Patrtiot G Series Sector 5 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply
Akasa Freedom Xone Case
Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

I built this yesterday but when i plug a vga cable in my monitor goes off then if i plug it in it cums on sayin check video cable

need help

danewesley · 17 Apr 2010 at 22:40

check power connectors to gpu and psu and see if there is anything blocking contacts in your video cable, or is there another adapter you could try with the gpu, dvi?

DazWass · 17 Apr 2010 at 22:43

thanks for reponse ill try that and there is dvi and a hdmi port but my hd tv is at uni so im tryin on a old crt monitor using vga cable

Sparx · 17 Apr 2010 at 22:43

Have you got the cable plugged into your graphics card and not the onboard VGA slot (if there is one)? Also is the graphics card inserted fully and correctly into the PCI-E slot and have you inserted the 6-pin power connector required on the side of the card to give it that extra juice it needs? If you have done all of this and assuming no parts are broken, then there is no reason why it should not work.

danewesley · 17 Apr 2010 at 22:45

when i built my pc it wouldnt post to bios, not even boot up, it just stayed on the blue tv screen, i tried all sorts of things thinking it was the gpu, psu etc, it turned out to be the underside of the mobo had been fried, it was literally black, nothing i could do so i just bought a new mobo and it was sorted.

DazWass · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:12

ive have tried everything nothing is workin

Sparx · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:14

Okay, so I've just had a quick look at your motherboard specs and it appears to have an onboard ATI Radeon HD 4200 chip.. Have you tried yet plugging the VGA cable into the onboard VGA port that is on the motherboard (not your dedicated graphics card)?

danewesley · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:15

is this where he will have to disable to onboard graphics or change it to output from the 4850

DazWass · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:27

i have sorted it the power supply wasnt connected to mobo properly sorry for wasting your time novice mistake

but thank you for your help

DazWass · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:30

also i was just wondering if i install a 32 bit version of windows now, could i take it off and install a 64 bit another time ?

and also whats yur oppinion on witch version is better

danewesley · 18 Apr 2010 at 00:25

yes you can reinstall a new os at a later date, im not too savvy with the ins and outs of 32-bit and 64-bit, all i know is in 32-bit you can have up to 3.5gb of memory? im porb worng on that, and with 64-bit its up to 16gb of memory?

joey2cool · 18 Apr 2010 at 03:14

danewesley said:
yes you can reinstall a new os at a later date, im not too savvy with the ins and outs of 32-bit and 64-bit, all i know is in 32-bit you can have up to 3.5gb of memory? im porb worng on that, and with 64-bit its up to 16gb of memory?

thats correct. There is a bit more to it than that, but essentially yer. 64bit is the future and therefore if u can, u should install it. It tends to run slightly better, plus u have the option of 64 and 32 bit software, not just 32