Need some help

christoph80 · 01-01-2008, 07:41 PM

I built my first computer and everything went pretty well. Had it up and running, playing games and everything was great for 2-3 days. Speedfan said my temps were at 38C as the highest temp I had seen after playing game. So I leave for two days so I shut the comp down. I get back today, start it up and it starts, but screen is blank. So I shut it off and make sure all connections in the back are good and try restarting. It turns on and all fans start for about a second and then comp shuts off and wont start back up. I turn off PSU and unhook everything in the back, hook up again and it does teh same thing.

Any ideas what this may be?

My components are Asus P5N-E SLI mobo, Quad core Q6600, NVIDIA 8800 GT graphix card, 700 W PSU

christoph80 · 01-01-2008, 08:28 PM

Update: No problems starting it up now, but still I just get a black screen on the monitor. Also, my mouse is a USB hookup and it doesn't appear that it is working (mouse doesn't light up). Not sure what has happened since it all worked previously.

jimkonow · 01-01-2008, 08:33 PM

might be a dead component.
try booting without your CD/DVD drive plugged in

christoph80 · 01-02-2008, 04:37 AM

Tried unplugging the dvd/cd rom, floppy disk drive and harddrive and tried to see if it was something with these, but I still just get a black screen. Everything is running inside, including the graphix card fan. I guess this would mean its probably either the graphix card or the PSU right? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

jimkonow · 01-02-2008, 04:43 AM

graphics card.....
try another card in it, if you can

footballdude2k3 · 01-02-2008, 11:31 PM

I agree with the graphics card, i hear that some people have had a lot of problems with the quad cores and graphics cards.

01-01-2008, 07:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
christoph80 New Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5	Need some help I built my first computer and everything went pretty well. Had it up and running, playing games and everything was great for 2-3 days. Speedfan said my temps were at 38C as the highest temp I had seen after playing game. So I leave for two days so I shut the comp down. I get back today, start it up and it starts, but screen is blank. So I shut it off and make sure all connections in the back are good and try restarting. It turns on and all fans start for about a second and then comp shuts off and wont start back up. I turn off PSU and unhook everything in the back, hook up again and it does teh same thing. Any ideas what this may be? My components are Asus P5N-E SLI mobo, Quad core Q6600, NVIDIA 8800 GT graphix card, 700 W PSU

01-01-2008, 08:33 PM	#3 (permalink)
jimkonow Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chatham, New York Age: 17 Posts: 939	might be a dead component. try booting without your CD/DVD drive plugged in __________________ E4500 @ 2.2GHz Acer AL2216W @ 1680x1050 Gigabyte P35-DS3L 2048MB OCZ DDR2-800 80GB Excelstor SATA 3.0 MSI HD2600XT (256MB GDDR4) NEC DVD-R-DL

01-02-2008, 04:43 AM	#5 (permalink)
jimkonow Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chatham, New York Age: 17 Posts: 939	graphics card..... try another card in it, if you can __________________ E4500 @ 2.2GHz Acer AL2216W @ 1680x1050 Gigabyte P35-DS3L 2048MB OCZ DDR2-800 80GB Excelstor SATA 3.0 MSI HD2600XT (256MB GDDR4) NEC DVD-R-DL

01-02-2008, 11:31 PM	#6 (permalink)
footballdude2k3 Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: sheboygan, wi Posts: 424	I agree with the graphics card, i hear that some people have had a lot of problems with the quad cores and graphics cards. __________________ case- antec 900 Dell d840 cpu-intel e8400 @3.00ghz p4 2.0ghz memory- 4gb corsair 800 mhz 512 mb ram hdd- 500 gb western digital psu- 700 ocz video- evga 8800gt speakers- logitech 5.1 X130 dvd- lite on 20x os-vista home premium if anybody has any input on the left column thats what i want to get right now.

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01-01-2008, 08:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
christoph80 New Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5	Update: No problems starting it up now, but still I just get a black screen on the monitor. Also, my mouse is a USB hookup and it doesn't appear that it is working (mouse doesn't light up). Not sure what has happened since it all worked previously.

01-02-2008, 04:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
christoph80 New Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5	Tried unplugging the dvd/cd rom, floppy disk drive and harddrive and tried to see if it was something with these, but I still just get a black screen. Everything is running inside, including the graphix card fan. I guess this would mean its probably either the graphix card or the PSU right? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!