troubleshooting...

[JoshBrowne]

Hey hey!

Just put together a system for my friend, and I've literally just this minute got the hardware together, but it's not posting.

Just to illiminate the posibility, could anyone answer me this:

On the gpu (an Asus EAH5450 Silent) there is a little connector on the top of the board that looks like it should link to a fan connector or something - it doesn't look like it consumes a great deal of power - but no cable that fits the socket was supplied with the card - could the fact that it's got nothing plugged in at this moment in time be the reason for the no-post?

thanks a million.x

 

[JoshBrowne]

You need to connect the graphics card to your power supply with a pci connector which looks like this The cable is on the power supply, hence why you coudn't find a cable with the gpu :

http://techreport.com/r.x/psus-0907/pcie-connectors.jpg

Depending on the card it might need a 6 pin, 2 6 pin connections, 8 pin connection, two 8 pin connections or any combination of the two.

On this picture you can see where the pci connectors plug in on a graphics card

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1360/nvidia_gtx460_poweri.jpg

No it's not a PCI-E connector. It's got two pins, roughly 2mm apart, in a socket roughly a third of a square centimetre.

http://oclab.pl/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/asus_hd5450_06.jpg

see it at the bottom right?