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Building my first PC - Technical Issue UPDATE page 2
Posted on 11/22/12 at 7:04 am
Posted on 11/22/12 at 7:04 am
Lately I've seen a lot of posters recommend others to build their own PC to save some money and get exactly what they need. Even though I'm no PC expert, I decided to try it after checking out the tutorial by newegg since it didn't seem too complex.
I finally got my last part in the mail yesterday and started my build. As per the newegg tutorial, I did an external build to make sure I don't screw anything up before putting all the components in the case. I assembled everything and triggered the start button. The PSU, CPU, and video card fans all started moving but my monitor said it was not receiving a signal so I couldn't see if I was getting the splash screen the newegg tutorial talks about.
Like I said, I know very little about computer parts so I'm not too sure what could be the problem. My monitor only came with a Dsub-Dsub cable but my video card doesn't have a dsub port so I went to the store to buy a hdmi-dvi cable since he only other port my monitor has is a dvi one. Could this be the issue? My video card also has a dvi port, should I use a dvi-dvi cable instead?
Everything else seems to be working properly and cables plugged right. Anyone has a guess on what might be the problem?
Thanks in advance!
I finally got my last part in the mail yesterday and started my build. As per the newegg tutorial, I did an external build to make sure I don't screw anything up before putting all the components in the case. I assembled everything and triggered the start button. The PSU, CPU, and video card fans all started moving but my monitor said it was not receiving a signal so I couldn't see if I was getting the splash screen the newegg tutorial talks about.
Like I said, I know very little about computer parts so I'm not too sure what could be the problem. My monitor only came with a Dsub-Dsub cable but my video card doesn't have a dsub port so I went to the store to buy a hdmi-dvi cable since he only other port my monitor has is a dvi one. Could this be the issue? My video card also has a dvi port, should I use a dvi-dvi cable instead?
Everything else seems to be working properly and cables plugged right. Anyone has a guess on what might be the problem?
Thanks in advance!
This post was edited on 1/17/13 at 5:59 pm
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Posted on 11/22/12 at 7:16 am to Charleaux
did you plug the monitor into the electrical outlet. :rimshot:
Posted on 11/22/12 at 7:54 am to Charleaux
Do you have the vid card in the right PCI slot? Sounds silly but I didn't when I did my first build. The card would power on but not output any signal.
Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:48 am to Charleaux
I once neglected to plug the video card in to the power supply enough times (there were 3 places to plug on my bizarro world card, a normal card will have 1 or 2).
The cord could also be bad, or it could just be a driver issue.
The cord could also be bad, or it could just be a driver issue.
Posted on 11/22/12 at 9:16 am to Charleaux
Have we established a successful boot via mobo beeps yet?
Posted on 11/22/12 at 10:11 am to Charleaux
Start by listing the exact model of every part you bought.
No video is such a common symptom that there's no way it can be diagnosed accurately with such little information. I highly doubt it's an issue with your card requiring more power than your PSU is offering unless the PSU is faulty. You generally wouldn't see symptoms of that until you start playing a game or running a benchmark that will max out the card's thermal design power (TDP). Most high end cards these days have around 200-250w TDP, with the exception of a few outliers such as the 6990.
Here's a few things that can cause a computer to power on but not display video. They are in no particular order, and some of them are rare:
Bad motherboard
Bad power supply
Bad CPU
Bent socket pins
Incompatible RAM
Bad RAM
Bad DIMM slot being occupied by working RAM
Bad video card
Bad video card port
Forgot to connect PSU 8-pin connector to board
Incompatible RAM
No RAM
Incorrectly seated RAM
Incorrectly seated video card
Motherboard limitations between memory controller and SATA ports (e.g., cheaper motherboards might disable 1 SATA port if all 4 DIMM slots are occupied)
Bad Monitor
clear CMOS jumper missing
Bad CMOS battery
Memory profile needs to be set in bios before occupying all four DIMM slots
Incompatible CPU (for example, an ivy bridge installed in a Z68 that needs a bios update)
Just to name a few.
You didn't mention if you have an internal speaker in your case, which would provide beep codes to help you diagnose the problem. I know you're still working outside the case but I recommend connecting that speaker anyway. If you do have the speaker connected and are not getting beeps, any of the above can still be true. Modern motherboards have LEDs that light up in a series during post to indicate which controllers/hardware is initializing. The LEDs will hang at a certain point and the mobo won't post, and you'll be able to see where it's gone wrong.
No video is such a common symptom that there's no way it can be diagnosed accurately with such little information. I highly doubt it's an issue with your card requiring more power than your PSU is offering unless the PSU is faulty. You generally wouldn't see symptoms of that until you start playing a game or running a benchmark that will max out the card's thermal design power (TDP). Most high end cards these days have around 200-250w TDP, with the exception of a few outliers such as the 6990.
Here's a few things that can cause a computer to power on but not display video. They are in no particular order, and some of them are rare:
Bad motherboard
Bad power supply
Bad CPU
Bent socket pins
Incompatible RAM
Bad RAM
Bad DIMM slot being occupied by working RAM
Bad video card
Bad video card port
Forgot to connect PSU 8-pin connector to board
Incompatible RAM
No RAM
Incorrectly seated RAM
Incorrectly seated video card
Motherboard limitations between memory controller and SATA ports (e.g., cheaper motherboards might disable 1 SATA port if all 4 DIMM slots are occupied)
Bad Monitor
clear CMOS jumper missing
Bad CMOS battery
Memory profile needs to be set in bios before occupying all four DIMM slots
Incompatible CPU (for example, an ivy bridge installed in a Z68 that needs a bios update)
Just to name a few.
You didn't mention if you have an internal speaker in your case, which would provide beep codes to help you diagnose the problem. I know you're still working outside the case but I recommend connecting that speaker anyway. If you do have the speaker connected and are not getting beeps, any of the above can still be true. Modern motherboards have LEDs that light up in a series during post to indicate which controllers/hardware is initializing. The LEDs will hang at a certain point and the mobo won't post, and you'll be able to see where it's gone wrong.
This post was edited on 11/22/12 at 10:24 am
Posted on 11/22/12 at 1:21 pm to Charleaux
Make sure you are plugging your monitor into the video card and not possible on board is what I meant to say.. altho I doubt this is it since you are looking at your video card I assume*
This post was edited on 11/22/12 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 11/22/12 at 1:23 pm to Charleaux
quote:
should I use a dvi-dvi cable instead?
Please buy the correct cables and try that. A lot of converter cables are trash and do not always work as intended.
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