New guy and with new pc build/problems

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dab1982

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Hi guys my name is David. I just built my first pc and am having issues with no display. I just put everything in today and turned it on, powered on no problem. Just no display. I haven't put any drivers on it at all. But I never did erase the old HDD when it was in the Dell. A guy I talked to said you dont have to. It will start a new partion? Where do I begin to see if its the HDD or the graphics card or something else? Thanks in advance. If you need more specs or anything let me know.

Specs are: These are new.
Master Cooler 922 HAF case
MSI 890FXA-GD65
AMD Phenom II Black Edition X6 1090T cpu
Ultra 750w Power Supply
Patriot Sector 5 8gb RAM

The used parts from a Dell XPS Desktop are:
Seagate 250 HDD
X-Fi sound card
Nvidia 8800gt Video Card (I think that is the model)
 
No display as in no motherboard splash screen? You see absolutely nothing?

The card should have generic drivers that will allow you to use any setup.

Do you need to plug another cord from the power supply into the video card? Try plugging the monitor into the motherboard instead of the graphics card.
 
claptonman said:
No display as in no motherboard splash screen? You see absolutely nothing?

The card should have generic drivers that will allow you to use any setup.

Do you need to plug another cord from the power supply into the video card? Try plugging the monitor into the motherboard instead of the graphics card.
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That did the trick, but now it is saying no bootable device
 
Plugging it into the motherboard worked? Then either you have a bad graphics card or you didn't plug in the additional power supply cable to the other side of the graphics card.

Do you have a windows 7 disk? If so, then you need to go into BIOS and set the CD drive as the boot device.
 
What did the trick, plugging the PCIe power connector to the video card or using the onboard video? It not going to boot into windows using the harddrive and OS that was installed on a Dell. Your going to have to reinstall the OS.
 
StrangleHold said:
What did the trick, plugging the PCIe power connector to the video card or using the onboard video? It not going to boot into windows using the harddrive and OS that was installed on a Dell. Your going to have to reinstall the OS.
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I guess the plug for the graphics card was loose rechecked everything and it came on.
 
Go into the bios and check to see what your boot order is. Also make sure the sata controller is set to IDE or compatibility not ahci or raid.
 
johnb35 said:
Go into the bios and check to see what your boot order is. Also make sure the sata controller is set to IDE or compatibility not ahci or raid.
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The only thing it has is the 2.2TB infinity...Rom drive and HDD not showing at all.
 
Then check all the power and data connections on your drives. Are they IDE or SATA cdrom drives?
 
If you have more than one cd drive then you must jumper them correctly before the computer will see them. Jumper one master and one slave. Check the plastic jumpers on the back of the drives and see what they are jumpered as.
 
johnb35 said:
Then check all the power and data connections on your drives. Are they IDE or SATA cdrom drives?
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Okay got all that done. It booted but got half way through windows loading screen and gave me the blue screen saying it needs to shut down.
 
If you are booting off the old dell hard drive, thats why. Totally different hardware so its looking for dell hardware and it can't find it, thats why the blue screen. You will need to reinstall windows or install windows a new blank hard drive.
 
johnb35 said:
If you are booting off the old dell hard drive, thats why. Totally different hardware so its looking for dell hardware and it can't find it, thats why the blue screen. You will need to reinstall windows or install windows a new blank hard drive.
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Gonna try and reinstall. Hopefully that will work.
 
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