Problem with new build.

Ryin

Ryin

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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?
 
any more info on spec of the pc and monitor? sounds like your monitor doesnt support the res that it boots in tbh, get a crt and try it.
 
Monitor is 1024x768,
Pc specs:
ASUS M3A78-T,
AMD Phenom 2 920,
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB,
OCZ Gold Edition 4GB,
Sapphire 4870,
Corsair 650w.
 
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Sounds like your gfx card doesnt have enough power, but then you havent even said your spec so it could be anything.
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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.
 
Have you installed a graphics card at any point?

What happens if you don't use onboard graphics and try your card?
 
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.
 
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.
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Ah, thanks. If only I had known before.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
When you eventually get the battery out (I hate doing that, so fiddly) make sure to leave it for at least 30 seconds.

Also, when you tried on-board graphics, did you leave the new graphics card in it's slot or not, if you did leave it in, take it out and try on-board again.

If that doesn't work have you got another graphics card to try?
 
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.
 
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