No signal on first boot - Update.

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 10:55

i got home from work this morning and decided to take the computer apart like suggested, only after removing the mobo from the case did i find this on the back........

im guessing this is why it wouldnt start up or even connect to a tv vga or hdmi?

ive ordered a new mobo now(not second hand) but i want to know might i have done this? all i did was fit the mobo and power it up once without cpu and gfx card etc to see if i got the fans/front bay cables right? or it could have been like this when i bought it considering it only cost £10 =/ what a waste

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 10:56

oh and will this damage have any effect on my cpu, memory or graphics card?

stulid · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:00

Dam! Thats actually stripped the layers off. Was it sold as working?

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:05

it was kind of sold as spares or repair but not because it was faulty, the seller stated that he didnt have time to check everysingle motherboard he was selling(at the time it was over 30 i think) so he was selling it like that. i have sent him a message and he said nobody else has had problems, im a bit ****ed off due to being skint already and i dont want to potentially risk breaking my new parts i got for it.

BoroRob_UK · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:09

Never buy 2nd hand motherboards! or RAM.. What exactly is that anyway? looks like a copper strip but what does it do? Clearly shorted and friend the board.. :S

stulid · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:09

Are those copper strips? Looks to wide to be a signal trace, more emi shield or ground/0v,

If those flappy bits have touched another part of the back of the board anything could have hapened.

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:12

=s, my new mobo will arrive on monday, should i just put all my stuff on it and hope for the best?

BoroRob_UK · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:13

Yep, Suprised you never smelt or seen the flames there tbh.. ROFL

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:16

im assuming this happened before i bought the board

stulid · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:16

At least your CPU and graphics card weren't in it! KABOOM.

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:21

oh they where!, no like i say it prolly happened before i got it, i didnt smell burning or anything when i started it up, and it didnt shoot fire from the fans!

stulid · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:24

Its says in your post, you powered up without CPU and graphics etc to test cables.

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:26

yes, that was before i got my other parts, and it all worked, the fans, leds, dvd, hdd etc all powered up and worked, so when i got my cpu and graphics i fitted them and it still powered up...it just didnt connect to a tv through vga or hdmi, i couldnt try dvi or a computer monitor.

stulid · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:33

So you fitted everything you had apart from CPU and Graphics card, powered up, then fitted the CPU and graphics card and powered up again, both times without a TV/monitor.

So there is no way of knowing if it was faulty when you got it!

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:47

the whole thread is about not getting a signal when i connected it to two different tvs, both vga and 1 hdmi, did you miss that part? =)

stulid · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:54

Did you miss the part were you said you powered it up without a CPU and graphics card.

There is now no way of knowing if it was dodgy before you got it or after, you could have had a moan to the seller if when you first used it, you had used a graphics card and CPU.

Buy another board.

danewesley · 30 Jan 2010 at 12:04

ive bought another board, im not going to expect a refund of £20, thanks for the help chaps

BoroRob_UK · 30 Jan 2010 at 17:03

danewesley said:
ive bought another board, im not going to expect a refund of £20, thanks for the help chaps

Take a picture of it and send him it saying you were getting no display.. You took the board out turned it over and noticed that ^.

Worth a shot. :rolleyes: