just built pc but small problem

jojothemonkey69 · 25 Mar 2006 at 19:39

hi i've just built a pc and when i turn it on the screen doesn't display anything. the psu in on the processor fan is working , the dvd drive allows me to open/close it and the hard drive is happily spinning. i've checked that everything is securly attached and doubled checked connections. anyone got any suggesstions to where the problem may lie???

thanks

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 11:17

thanks for replies.
ok the simple stuff is all plugged in properly such as the monitor and the plug socket. i'll spec the system, it's my younger brothers pc not mine btw

normal case and 300 psu
80GB Maxtor DiamondMAX+10 133/7200
Intel Celeron D326 [2.53,RET,775]
crucial 512mb DDR PC3200 ram
Asrock 775VM800
sony dvd/rw x16
pci wireless card 54g
no gfx card plugged in yet

please note that when i turn it on the psu gan works, the cpu's fan works, the dvd works and the hard drive is spinning. it's just that it's not displaying anything also there are no beeps.
thanks

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 12:47

ok so if i put a graphics card in it should/could work??

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 12:50

yes the motherboard has onboard graphics. if you can't think of anything else then i'll give it a go

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 13:04

do you have to reset the biod when turning on a newly built computer for the 1st time???

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 13:10

ok i'll read the motherboard manual and see what it says about doing this. thanks

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 14:16

ok made a bit of progress. after watching a short video that came with the motherboard cd i installed the cpu wrong :eek:

i didn't take of the black cover bit which protects the actual processor. so luckly no damage has been done to the pins. i booted it up and got a message saying please insert media disk or something into boot device and press a key. is this the message that i'm meant to get. so i inserted microsoft xp into dvd drive and rebooted. i got the same message. the keyboard wasn't working so i'm unable to press a key i tried it with a usb keyboard but that doesn't work either. i tried resetting the cmos by putting a jumper on the right bit of the motherboard.

so any words of wisdom that could get it to boot from the disk so that i can install xp?????

thanks

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 14:19

yep purple one in the purple green one in the green lol

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 14:23

well this is what i want to do but i can't as the keyboard is working :mad:

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 14:36

MarkLP said:
edit: forgot about keyboard hmmmm

i'm guessing it's gonna be pretty hard to sort out boot device order without a keyboard then. this is so annoying!!!

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 15:11

ok major progress i have got keyboard working. so now if i boot up and leave it i get the same message about media disk. but while its booting up if i press f2 i'm able to get into cmos config. i swapped the rder of the boot device so that the cd/dvd is 1st and yes the windows xp disk is in. i've tried many reboots. so basically its not booting up from the cd is it?? any idea on how to sort this. i feel that i'm so close now

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 15:46

yep all cables ok. i tried the xp disk in the 2nd cd drive as well. the bios recognises everything

jojothemonkey69 · 26 Mar 2006 at 15:50

well its a brand new one so it should work