please help me troubleshoot

barlymarly · 3 Jan 2007 at 22:27

The computer in the office was very slow and kept hanging, even after a reformat. As the computer is going to be used for many hours everyday and is crucial to the family business i thought the best thing to do was to upgrade the psu, memory and motherboard so nothing would be faulty. I also don't have the time or the equipment to test every component

The new hardware I've installed is:

-"Sansun" 300watt psu
-Asus M2V AM2 motherboard
-Sempron 3000+ cpu (Retail HSF)
-512 DDR2 ram from a competitor
-Asus EN6200LE graphics (pci-e)

The system will power on but the monitor says 'no signal' so i have no idea what the problem could be.

Is there anything i'm missing here? I've done all the usual checks like checking the graphics card and cpu are seated properly and that the cmos jumper isn't set.

thanks in advance

Mp4 · 3 Jan 2007 at 22:30

Have you plugged in the pcie connector from your psu to your gfx card?

barlymarly · 3 Jan 2007 at 22:34

Mp4 said:
Have you plugged in the pcie connector from your psu to your gfx card?

the grpahics card i have doesn't appear to have any sort of inputs apart from the actual pci-e slot

Mp4 · 3 Jan 2007 at 22:39

Mybad ill re ask again

Are you using onboard graphics or do you have a separate pcie graphics card?

if you do have a separate gfx card can you post it please

Getting tired

my concentration has gone

barlymarly · 4 Jan 2007 at 00:35

Mp4 said:
Mybad ill re ask again

Are you using onboard graphics or do you have a separate pcie graphics card?

if you do have a separate gfx card can you post it please

Getting tired my concentration has gone

Yeh its a seperate card:

Asus EN6200LE

barlymarly · 4 Jan 2007 at 00:53

by the way the power supply is a very cheap one, how much of a difference does it make?

Sorry about the stupid questions, i sort of gave up on building my own computers when i got my laptop so the 300w cheapo usually 'did the job'

Mp4 · 4 Jan 2007 at 07:40

Are you using the DVI port or VGA/D-Sub port?

can you try the gfx card on another computer maybe and see if it works there?

pcAnywhere · 4 Jan 2007 at 08:58

Does the mobo not have a built in GPU?

Have you tried connecting your monitor to this VGA port?

Assuming that does work, I guess you'll need to change the BIOS to allow the PCIe card to be used instead of the onboard

barlymarly · 5 Jan 2007 at 14:50

It is a seperate graphics card plugged into the pci-e slot and the monitor is plugged into the d-sub monitor connector.