Help?

highendgamer · 17 May 2011 at 22:52

Hello, couldn't find a specific help section to just chucking it in here.

So basically a few weeks back my PC just cut out and wouldn't turn back on. The PSU has bust, so I ordered a new one. After it finally arriving, and spending hours trying to work out how to set it up, I got it set up and then put it back on my desk to plug everything back in. When I turned it on, all went fine.. but my monitor will not turn on. I've no idea why, it's plugged in exactly where it was last time. There is power to the monitor but it doesn't register what is happening on the PC. I wondered if perhaps the two power cables off the PSU that I didn't plug in were the reasons (Floppy disk and PCI-e), or if anyone else has any suggestions. It's an old school Dell monitor, but it's attached to the VGA adaptor so it plugs in the bottom.

Thanks to anyone that can help, and if you have any questions please ask

cmndr_andi · 17 May 2011 at 22:59

Hi there,

Have you tried the monitor with any other computers and tried any other monitors/TVs with the computer?

When you plugged in the new PSU, did you install the 4/8pin power connection into the motherboard, as well as the 24 pin one? Also, did you install all the 6 pin PCIE power connections in the graphics card so there are no unconnected power connections on the card?

Also, would you be able to tell us your full spec including make and model numbers of components (including motherboard, CPU, RAM, PSU and monitor)?

highendgamer · 17 May 2011 at 23:10

I plugged in the 4 pin near the fan on my mother board, the 20 + 4 pin into the mother board, the thin one (i'm bad with PC's) into the memory, the one with 4 thick pins into the CD drive area, and I couldn't find anywhere for the 6 pin PCIE to go

The only way I could give you specs would be to run DXDIAG when my PC was on =/, my Motherboard as Asus, my PSU is a Coolermaster GX 750W and my GPU is a nVidia 9600 GT, that's all I know off my head

cmndr_andi · 17 May 2011 at 23:20

On the 9600GT there should be a 6 pin power connection on the end of the card (see the image below):

Does you card have this and if so is a PCIE power connection (6 pin) from the PSU inserted into it? If not, instert it and boot up the PC and see if that helps.

I'm not sure what you mean about a power connection into the memory - would you be able to take a few photos of the motherboard and all the connections you have made and upload them onto an image host?

The motherboard should have it's model number written on it.

highendgamer · 17 May 2011 at 23:25

Alright i'll see if I can find a camera, I'll see if I can find somewhere to plug the PCI-e into my GPU, if you can guess a friend built the PC for me, so this is the first time i've actually looked inside >.<

Cheers for all your help everyone