No signal on monitor

Garyj881 · 7 Dec 2009 at 22:28

I'm running out of ideas and need some help.

Spec is in sig.

I purchased a water block for my GTX 280 and added it into the loop today, I stripped the card added thermal tape/paste in the places required etc mounted the block ensuring not to overtighten the screws. Put fresh coolant in and booted up slowly topped up te resevoir and kept an eye out for leaks. So far so good until I realised there was no display! All I get is check signal cable! I have removed my Sound card, disconnected all drives, tried one stick of ram, reset the bios, rechecked cables tried both out puts on the gfx card.

Just don't get it, can't figure out what's wrong.

When I switch on the pc it sounds normal (like its booting up) fans spin, mobo lights up, keyboard comes on etc...

Any ideas, I'm going to have another go tomorrow, bar putting a new card in there is there anything I have missed/overlooked?

Sudden · 7 Dec 2009 at 22:51

Try a different cable if you have one? Usually that sign goes away if a cable is plugged in, even if the computer isn't powered up.

Randomface74 · 7 Dec 2009 at 22:57

You put water in your pc and now it's broken, shocker.

Garyj881 · 8 Dec 2009 at 07:45

billysielu said:
You put water in your pc and now it's broken, shocker.

So helpfull, go troll some where else

WJA96 · 8 Dec 2009 at 08:08

Is the green light on at the back of the card?

You definitely have both power cables connected?

Have you tried the other DVI connector and is it the same DVI connector you used before?

What TIM did you use on the GPU and memory?

WJA96 · 8 Dec 2009 at 08:21

Any beeps on the speaker?

evoyear · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:23

test with another graphics card to see if the cable had a problem?

Garyj881 · 8 Dec 2009 at 12:55

WJA96 said:
Is the green light on at the back of the card?

= Yes

You definitely have both power cables connected?

= Yes

Have you tried the other DVI connector and is it the same DVI connector you used before?

= Tried both.

What TIM did you use on the GPU and memory?

= I Used the thermal pad supplied on the memory and AS5 on the GPU itself.

WJA96 · 8 Dec 2009 at 14:17

Gary - did you download the instructions from the EK website? You should have used the pads on the VRMs only (the 6 little bits at the end of the card). The memory and GPU should contact the block directly with a non-conductive TIM. As far as I'm aware AS5 is conductive due to the high silver content and the one recommended is MX-2 or MX-3. I doubt you've damaged the card, but the AS5 could be causing a short somewhere on the board.