Need Help!

[El_Commi]

Need Help! *Now with pics of finish rig*

Hey all.
So, finally received all my parts from OCuk.

Everything is assembled and put together. all the lights are lit, and the fans a whirring.
But when I hook it up to the monitor I simply get "No signal."

i've tried both Dvi ports. With the GPU screwed in, and not.
Used 1x6pin 1x8pin (1x6+2), and 2x6pin. And even tried using the molex-6pin adapter. Still no joy.
There's a "green" light on the mobo. And the CPU LED is red.

So- where/what, from here? As I amstuck

thanks

Parts:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18267844&highlight=el_commi

all identical, aside from the chassis which I had to change to an Antex Df-30

 

[cmndr_andi]

Hi there,

Is this the spec you finally went for?

Have you plugged in both the 24pin and 8 pin power connectors from the PSU to the motherboard?

Is the GPU installed in the top-most PCIE x16 slot?

Which slots did you put the memory in?

Did you install the motherboard on stand-offs/risers or directly onto the case side?

Is the CPU cooler securely fastened to the board and a smal layer of thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink base?

Have you got another monitor/TV you can test it with?

 

[El_Commi]

This is the build:

Your order consisted of the following items:

Item Qty Price
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card 1 £199.99
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game 1 £134.99
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** 1 £133.32
Iiyama ProLite E2409HDS 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black 1 £124.99
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM) 1 £74.99
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) 1 £62.49
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) 1 £49.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) 1 £38.32
Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black 1 £37.49
Fractal Design 140mm Silent Cooling Fan 1 £10.20

I have only plugged in the 24pin. Do I need to put in the 8pin? (I'll throw that in soon as i finsih my dinner.)
GPU is in upper most Pci-e slot.
2x4GB memory is in slots 2 and slot 4.
Straight into the side of the case. But the case already has raisers on it.

CPU cooler is fastened to the board tightly. Used the thermal paste which came with the cpu.
And can test it with another monitor after dinner too.
all the fans are spinning. and things seem ok- but wil ltry those tips ^^

 

[bowey]

Exothermic chemical reaction seems to be the problem

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Yes, the EPS12v (8 pin) power supply is essential for supplementary CPU power.

Try also another cable but my suspicion is it's the above as cmdr_andi hinted

 

[ZZZAC]

This is the build:

Do I need to put in the 8pin? (I'll throw that in soon as i finsih my dinner.)
^^

That will be why the cpu L.E.D will be red, as the 8 pin is atx 12v and cpu power, Hope all goes well

 

[El_Commi]

Putting in that 8 pin seems to have done it. Installing Windows now, thanks guys

 

[cmndr_andi]

Great to hear you have got it working

 

[El_Commi]

Yep. Got her up and running. she's a real beauty. Just installing software and driver and all the jazz.

One of my harddrives isn't showing up. But I'm guessing it's more than likely a cable isn't plugged in. So after next reboot. That's where I'll be looking

 

[Tonester007]

...One of my harddrives isn't showing up. But I'm guessing it's more than likely a cable isn't plugged in. So after next reboot. That's where I'll be looking

If the cables (power and data) are plugged in then see if the drive appears in the "Disk Management" snapin. Run "diskmgmt.msc" to start it.

 

[El_Commi]

Yeah- It's been so long since I've had a new system. I'm forgetting a lot of the basics. found it in disk management before I even came back here. All up and running smoothly now.

 

[sk82jack]

Good good

Got any pics?

 

[El_Commi]

Not just now. I'm in work again. will get my girlfriend to take a few, so I can upload.
Quite pleased. It's fairly quiet when I'm watching a movie/idle. But I can kick the fans up then you can hear it.
I'll run a few benchmarks when I get back home sunday and post a few.

Strange thing. I ran the indexing and got 7.8/7.9 on everything barr HDD(I was transferring loads of data from my old computer), it got 5.9.

After updating the ATI drivers, I got 6.4 gpu. I know indexing doesn't really say much. I just thought it was pretty funny
i'm itching to go play some games, but I have to go get the bus to the girlfriends dad's after work. not back till sunday! >.<


Edit- the GPU is *HUGE*. And the cables are pretty messy. Hard to find places to hide them

 

[Tonester007]

...
Strange thing. I ran the indexing and got 7.8/7.9 on everything barr HDD(I was transferring loads of data from my old computer), it got 5.9.
...

Its nothing to worry about, 5.9 is the maximum WEI score for a mechanical hard drive (you would need an SSD to get 7.8)

 

[El_Commi]

Yeah, 5.9 is good- but it sucks that everything else rocks 7.9 and it scores based on the lowest, instead of an average Not that it matters much
Pictures as requested.:

My desk.
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/2133/p5080405.jpg

Full scale;
http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/1756/p5080408.jpg

The chasis from side;
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/7264/p5080409.jpg
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/3994/p5080417.jpg

Side open;
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4853/p5080410.jpg
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1361/p5080411.jpg

Closer look;

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8124/p5080415.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/4673/p5080413.jpg

Cable management needs some work. I'll do that later, after i figure out how to overclock the cpu to 4.0
Ram is set to 1600 mhz

Posted links instead of pictures, in case someone doesn't want to get loaded down by them

 

[El_Commi]