Blank Screen....

[ryku]

Hi, i built my computer with all good parts, but when i plug in the cables and turn on the monitor and the computer, nuthing shows up. The screen would be black. The kind of video cards i have is the ATI|X1800XT 512M. The monitor i have is SCEPTRE X9g-Komodo II Black 19" 16ms LCD Monitor. I had pluged in the DVI cable to the video from the LCD, still it does not work. If any1 have any help i would appreciate it.

thank you


My build:

• Thermaltake Tsunami Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
• ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
• Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 EPS12V ATX12V 550W Power Supply
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
• OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory
• ATI|X1800XT 512M video card
• SCEPTRE X9g-Komodo II Black 19" 16ms LCD Monitor

 

[Motoxrdude]

If the monitor has an onboard video, also try that, then if it works, go in your bios and there some setting about PCI, or PCI-E video.

 

[ryku]

Nuthing still dont show up. I still get a blank screen wen i plug everything up.

 

[Motoxrdude]

weird... I had this problem installing Knoppix, but i know it shouldnt do that while not loading anything. Could you by chance try another monitor? As you probly heard before, try and unplug anything that isnt necesary to eliminate some variables.

 

[ryku]

yeah i alredy tried other monitors, Still the same problem.

Does it matter if the DVI cable have to b DVI-I? Because the kind of monitor cable i have is just DVI.

 

[Motoxrdude]

hmmm, i wouldnt know. try google

 

[ryku]

hmmm...
Do you think it could be the mobo pci-e slot that is not workin the the ATI|X1800XT 512M video card?

 

[Motoxrdude]

i wouldnt think so.... Im not to skilled in this area, just wait for another post by some of the more experience people.

 

[Yue]

if u got a sli board then make sure the card is in the right pci-e slot, when i first put mine together i had the card in the wrong slot and all i got was a black screen.

 

[ryku]

i believe i put the graphic card in the pci-e slot. I also tried the other pci-e slot to see if it would work, but it didnt just the same blank screen without anything on it.

 

[ryku]

i was just wondering do we have to reset our mobo before turin it on?
that might get the screen to work

 

[Yue]

have u got another PCI-E gfx card to try? or even an old PCI gfx card?

 

[ryku]

yeah i think my friend have an old PCI-E card.
ima try that card andc if it works

 

[Yue]

if tht works then ur current video card is proberly dead.

 

[ryku]

and if it dont work, than u think it might b the mobo?

 

[Yue]

could be, either way u say the stuff is brand new so u cn just rma the faulty companant.

 

[ryku]

hmm true that

thnx