Just built my pc, booted it up and i get 'NO VIDEO INPUT', please help?

jayvee151 · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:16

What are the common causes for the error message? - other than the obvious

I have tried two monitors, same message appears on them both. I have no way of trying the graphics card in another machine to see if that is the fault. The card LED comes on and the fan works. I was really looking forward to using my computer, but now i cant

Hughsy · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:25

First of all what spec?

+ make sure the 4pin connector is in around the CPU because that can cause your problem.

bledd · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:26

that's a standard message that the MONITOR itself has, the pc isn't sending that message

booyaka · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:26

have you connected the 6 pin pci-e power lead to the gfx card

jayvee151 · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:41

i've used an 8pin connector to power the CPU, i thought these worked better with quad cores?? and i have the 6 pin in the gfx. i know its the standard message and i know its defo not the monitor thats not working because im using that now as i type, with the same DVI cable so it cant be that either.

full specs are:

Asus P5K Deluxe/WiFi-AP
Intel Q6600
4Gb G.Skill DDR2 PC2-8000 PQ (1000MHz)
Zotac NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT AMP EDITION 512MB
Samsung F1 750GB
Coolermast realpower 520w
Thermalright Ultra-120 EXTREME

Thank you for helping me out guys

jayvee151 · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:42

i really hope i can get this to work!

fat-600 · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:43

Do you see the POST screen at all? then it just comes up with no signal?

cos i have the same problem with my 8800GTS i have to boot in safe mode and then install the drivers within safe mode,

jayvee151 · 18 Jul 2008 at 14:48

i dont get any screen, just the error message from the monitor, but the message comes up when i boot the thing up so it must know something is happening??

mmorpheus1 · 18 Jul 2008 at 15:08

try booting in safe mode , the screen resolution might not be supported

jayvee151 · 18 Jul 2008 at 15:12

i cant boot in safe mode, nothing comes up at all

. im satrting to think something is faulty, but is it my motherboard/cpu/gfx? ive been saving my money for so long and now the ******* thing dont even work!

bledd · 18 Jul 2008 at 15:16

try with just 1 ram stick

-do you have other ram / gfx cards you can swap out to test them?

jayvee151 · 18 Jul 2008 at 15:17

now i only have a laptop other than my new computer that dont work, ill go try with one stick of ram now

jayvee151 · 18 Jul 2008 at 15:21

your a pure genius bledd. it works, thank you so much. but why would it have not been working with both of the RAM modules in??