strange problem

theultimate · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:04

ive just biult the pc with the following spec and when i go to power up everything turns on fine fans etc but the monitor cant get a signal and the cd drive has the led stuck on and wont open and cant hear the ahrd dricve trying to boot any ideas??

£309.85 x 1 - AMD Athlon 64 3700 Retail / Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe / 2GB Corsair XMS 3200C25PT Dual Channel Kit - Bundle (BU-028-OK) £0.00 x 1 - Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS) £0.00 x 1 - Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-131-AS) £0.00 x 1 - AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£18.95 x 1 - Liteon SHM-165P6S-01C 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Beige) - OEM (CD-047-LO)
£59.95 x 1 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620A ATA-100 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-082-SE)
£74.95 x 1 - Coolermaster Wave Master - Silver (No PSU) (CA-037-CM)
£89.95 x 1 - OcUK Gamer Extreme 178GP 17" LCD Monitor - Black (MO-016-OK)
£39.95 x 1 - Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£119.95 x 1 - PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-061-PC)
£34.95 x 1 - Creative Inspire 5.1 P5800 Speakers - OEM (SP-043-CL)
£15.95 x 1 - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (SC-040-CL)
£2.95 x 2 - Akasa Rounded Ultra ATA133/100/66 IDE Cable (0.45m) - Blue (CB-041-GE) £5.50 x 1 - Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£8.95 x 1 - Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard (Black) - OEM (KB-011-LG) £5.50 x 1 - Logitech S96 PS/2 Optical Wheel Mouse Black - OEM (KB-046-LG) £19.50 x 1 - Silverstone SST-FP52 Silver Aluminium Fan Controller (BB-002-SV)

UKDTweak · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:10

Check all your IDE cables are the correct way around, also check the jumper settings on your HDD's and CD/DVD drives.

theultimate · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:15

ive disconnected all ide the graphics card manual is crap
do i need to connect a power supply to the grahics card with the cable induded?

-|ScottFree|- · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:22

Connect the graphics card to whatever molex allows connection to the PSU. Just make sure you connect it to the PSU. Otherwise you will not get a signal to the monitor.

As stated previously, make sure you have the IDE cables are the right way round, If there is a light continuously on, this generally means that there cable is the in the wrong way round.

theultimate · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:23

ive plugged it into the first pci express slot display below of what it looks like

PCIEX16_1 big slot

PCIEX1_1 small slot

PCIEX16_2 big slot

ive plugged it into the top one im not using crossfire or anything as i dont have 2 cards have i plugged it into the right one ?

theultimate · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:27

ive deffo got it in the right slot

on the back there is 2 dvi slots ive got it on the right one and using a dvi to vga connector still aint powering monitor up though :S

-|ScottFree|- · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:31

You have 2 PCI-E slots.

1 blue one PCI-E

Then a PCI slot

Then a 2nd black PCI-E

Common sense would tell me to use the Blue slot when running one card!!!

theultimate · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:31

yes and i dont that in the first place... just weird why cant get a signal to the monitor :S

-|ScottFree|- · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:32

Did you connect the G card to the PSU?

theultimate · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:38

yeah sure did

UKDTweak · 25 Jul 2006 at 16:51

Try building the system outside of the case, you may have a short !