Problem with new build.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 14:40

All my parts arrived today, hooray. I started building at around 11AM and finished at about 2PM. First I powered on the system with no monitor, everything looked good, lights on mobo, card, fans all turned on. Since I thought everything was fine, I hooked up my monitor. With the monitor plugged in (it's a dell monitor :/) I get no display, and the power led is orange, as if the system had gone on standby. Also when I unplug the monitor from the computer the power led goes green.

Does anybody know what I can do to fix this?

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 15:03

Monitor is 1024x768,
Pc specs:
ASUS M3A78-T,
AMD Phenom 2 920,
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB,
OCZ Gold Edition 4GB,
Sapphire 4870,
Corsair 650w.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 15:04

deleted said:
Sounds like your gfx card doesnt have enough power, but then you havent even said your spec so it could be anything.

I'm running the monitor through the motherboard at the moment. I'm pretty sure everything should have enough power though... Unless I connected something wrong.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 15:17

Edleake said:
Have you installed a graphics card at any point?

What happens if you don't use onboard graphics and try your card?

Yeah the graphics card is in there at the moment, I've tried both and the same thing happens each time.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 15:24

Edleake said:
Pull the graphics card out, reset the CMOS and then try booting from the onboard VGA.

You will likely need to set PCI-E as your primary graphics from within the BIOS, you should install the graphics card after you've done this.

Ah, thanks. If only I had known before.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 16:46

Still no luck

Any more suggestions?

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 16:53

Edleake said:
Unplug everything.

Clear CMOS.

Run the motherboard with just the CPU, RAM and VGA out.

What happens?

I normally build a pc out of the box, literally out of the case until everything is OK.

That's what I've been trying :[. The only other connections are the hard drive and dvd drive but that shouldn't make a difference, should it?

The same thing happens as before, but I'm not sure if the BIOS is being reset correctly.. since I get no display it's hard to tell. I might try taking the battery out just to make sure.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 17:25

leeh14 said:
silly but hey! have you plued both PCI-E power sockets into the card or just one?

Yeah ha, I made that mistake at first. I posted this thread after I'd fixed that though.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 17:49

Edleake said:
Definitely try that.

I'm just trying to find a way to without breaking it ha.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 18:04

deleted said:
Also theres a 4pin plug near the CPU, is that in correctly?

That connects to the PSU?... I can't believe I missed that...

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 18:18

Connecting that 4 pin plug didn't change anything, it seemed so promising too.

Any tips for getting the battery out?

I've tried as many combinations as I could, Onboard with card in, Card, Onboard without card, different ram slots.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 19:01

D D Danneh said:
Have you tried a different monitor? Or, does that monitor work on a different system?

I've tried 2 different monitors, both of which work on other systems.

Ryin · 20 Feb 2009 at 19:26

Mr.Nick said:
I see that that motherboard has 3 pci-e x16 slots, try it in each of those and see if that makes a difference.

Also, having the case stood upright, try tipping it a bit when getting the battery out, might just drop out then.

I've tried using different PCI-E slots, only 2 of them but I'm sure that the 3rd has no chance or working.

I'm going to try to get the battery out tomorrow. It's half 7 now and I've been trying to fix thsis for just over 5 hours, it's getting a little tiring.