Hey guys, after lying dormant from the PC world for quite a while I recently bought the components for a new PC from overlockers. I figured that seeing as I used to know how to assemble PCs it would be a piece of cake but this turned out to be a hideously over optimistic assessment of my skills.
These are the parts I bought:
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 "Toxic Edition" 512MB GDDR3 TV-OutDual DVIHDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.8GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
Asus M3A78 Pro AMD 780G (Socket AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B 1TB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU)
OcUK 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Samsung SH-S223FBEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Here's my current problem:
When I turn the PC on I get power and fans whirring, plus some noise from my drives to indicate they are doing something. Apart from that I get bugger all.
I don't get my monitor registering any input signal (currently connected through DVi)
I don't get any kind of nice beeping bootup noises
I don't get any bad beeping indicating something is obviously wrong
I don't get any lights flashing up on my motherboard apart from a big green 'I am currently plugged in' standby light
My first guesses were:
1) Maybe a major component is loose/installed incorrectly - though I've checked plus I would have guessed this would trigger an error code.
2) My CPU is incompatible with my motherboard without a bios update first
3) My PSU is incompatible/underpowered/not connected to my motherboard properly. I was a bit confused when connecting it up as in the past it was just one big lead, however I'm currently setup with the big power input on the motherboard being connected by a the biggest lead I could find plus an extra 4 pin one attached to it. Plus there's an additional 4 pin lead going into a different socket near the CPU.
4) My graphics card is buggered and apart from that my system is working fine. It's worth noting that I occasionally get a little red light on my graphics card, although the only time I can seem to be able to spot it is when I power down. Also the PCI-Express slot has an extra blue flappy bit attached to it which I guess is used to help install/seat the card but I didn't seem to need to use it. It's also worth noting that my motherboard seems to have a basic onboard VGA graphics adapter which I didn't realise at first, however when I hook this up to my monitor I still don't get a signal.
5) My cpu is buggered.
6) I've somehow failed to enable my motherboard onboard speaker, hence I can't hear the error codes.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on the situation it would be greatly appreciated.
These are the parts I bought:
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 "Toxic Edition" 512MB GDDR3 TV-OutDual DVIHDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.8GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
Asus M3A78 Pro AMD 780G (Socket AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B 1TB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU)
OcUK 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Samsung SH-S223FBEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Here's my current problem:
When I turn the PC on I get power and fans whirring, plus some noise from my drives to indicate they are doing something. Apart from that I get bugger all.
I don't get my monitor registering any input signal (currently connected through DVi)
I don't get any kind of nice beeping bootup noises
I don't get any bad beeping indicating something is obviously wrong
I don't get any lights flashing up on my motherboard apart from a big green 'I am currently plugged in' standby light
My first guesses were:
1) Maybe a major component is loose/installed incorrectly - though I've checked plus I would have guessed this would trigger an error code.
2) My CPU is incompatible with my motherboard without a bios update first
3) My PSU is incompatible/underpowered/not connected to my motherboard properly. I was a bit confused when connecting it up as in the past it was just one big lead, however I'm currently setup with the big power input on the motherboard being connected by a the biggest lead I could find plus an extra 4 pin one attached to it. Plus there's an additional 4 pin lead going into a different socket near the CPU.
4) My graphics card is buggered and apart from that my system is working fine. It's worth noting that I occasionally get a little red light on my graphics card, although the only time I can seem to be able to spot it is when I power down. Also the PCI-Express slot has an extra blue flappy bit attached to it which I guess is used to help install/seat the card but I didn't seem to need to use it. It's also worth noting that my motherboard seems to have a basic onboard VGA graphics adapter which I didn't realise at first, however when I hook this up to my monitor I still don't get a signal.
5) My cpu is buggered.
6) I've somehow failed to enable my motherboard onboard speaker, hence I can't hear the error codes.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on the situation it would be greatly appreciated.
