New build, new problems!

[Morthoseth]

Good day to all of you helpful people!

I've just finished building my new setup in a Sugo SG01 - and i'm having no end of weird problems that i need to sort out, i'm posting from a seperate machine right now!

Spec is as follows

Gigabyte GA33 DSR2
E6600
BFG 8800 GTS
Geil PC6400 DDR2

And, well the only new part is the motherboard, after i had finished placing it all in the case, i fired it up to find that there was no graphics output, fine i thought, i tried the onboard graphics port and it booted up, got to windowns and everything was fine.. but i wanted my 8800GTS to work, naturally.

I noticed i hadnt seated it 100% correctly in the case, so i took it out, reseated it and this time when i tried to boot it up the GPU cooler came on, yet no output again..

No problem, i thought.. back to the onboard graphics, but that has now died too.. i'm just wondering if anyone can think of anything simple i may be missing here?

Cheers.

 

[Teaf]

Hello Morthoseth

Are you making sure you are plugging in the PCI-E connectors into the 8800 GTS card, some people forget to plug them in and the card fails to work properly due to lack of power. I would also make sure you have both the 20/24 pin ATX and the 4/8pin rail power connector plugged in.

There might be a weird conflict between the 8800 GTS and the onboard video. If you cannot boot the machine up without the card in now then I would reset the CMOS by taking out the battery for about 10 minutes then putting it back in. After that try without the 8800 GTS card in and hopefully it boots up. If it does go into the BIOS. There is normally a setting to tell the machine which graphics slot to initiate first. On my motherboard it states to initiate PCI first, however on yours it could be something like "Onboard" and "PCI"/"PCI-E" so switch that to PCI/PCI-E then turn it off and put your 8800 GTS in and try again.

 

[Morthoseth]

Just thought i would reply, thank you for your advice mate its much appreciated.

Thankfully the problem was my own stupidity!

It turns out the graphics card was working all along, yet the monitor was knocked from DVI-D to D-SUB so.. no picture, and the other monitor i used with the onboard had a different adapter, and no extra modes so it worked..

Go ahead, laugh at me for such a stupid mistake

At least it was cheap!