Problem getting signal to a monitor

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Weezix

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Hey,
I am in the process of building a desktop computer for my brother. Its not the first one I have built. I am in the middle of trying to do a basic boot up, but nothing seems to being transferred to the monitor.

The parts are:
Motherboard - Abit NF8-V2 SKT754 Nvidia 250gb 6channel audio raid 10/100 lan sata150 DDR400 Retail

Processor - AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64bit 3400+ 512kb L2cache 754pin Retail Boxed Processor with 3 Year Warranty and Fan Included

RAM - Kingston 1024MB DDR266 PC2100 Cl25 memory Module

Graphics Card - Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128M DDR AGP VGA / TVO / DVI-I

Monitor - Benq (1penny game offer) FP71G+ 17" TFT 8ms 500:1 (1280x1024) Monitor.

I am getting power, and the CPU fan, plus the graphics card fan all go, so I cannot work out why it wont work. Anyone got any ideas?
 
Weezix said:
Hey,
I am in the process of building a desktop computer for my brother. Its not the first one I have built. I am in the middle of trying to do a basic boot up, but nothing seems to being transferred to the monitor.

The parts are:
Motherboard - Abit NF8-V2 SKT754 Nvidia 250gb 6channel audio raid 10/100 lan sata150 DDR400 Retail

Processor - AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64bit 3400+ 512kb L2cache 754pin Retail Boxed Processor with 3 Year Warranty and Fan Included

RAM - Kingston 1024MB DDR266 PC2100 Cl25 memory Module

Graphics Card - Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128M DDR AGP VGA / TVO / DVI-I

Monitor - Benq (1penny game offer) FP71G+ 17" TFT 8ms 500:1 (1280x1024) Monitor.

I am getting power, and the CPU fan, plus the graphics card fan all go, so I cannot work out why it wont work. Anyone got any ideas?
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tried it on a different monitor?
 
Well, I was going to suggest the monitor, but seeing as how it came with a 1 penny game offer that can't possibly be it.

Hehe. If that is a generic PSU in the case it is most likely the culprit, although I can't rule out a DOA mobo either.
 
Weezix said:
But if I am getting power to the motherboard, surely it cant be the PSU
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Nope. Not true at all.

For example. I sold my wife's work a computer. A really nice computer. It worked beautifully here. Mint. I installed everything, got it all set up nice hoping to make a good impression and delivered it.

Well. The phone calls started. Windows was crashing. It would just lock up. I go up there, sure enough it's screwing up. I could hear the harddrive clunking and then starting back up again, and seeing as how it was a Western Digital I figured that it was just being a typical WD piece of shit and RMAed it. I reinstalled Windows, made everything all nice and drove all the way the hell back out there to drop their machine off.

Same thing.

I picked the stupid thing back up and after trying EVERYTHING to get this machine to screw up in my office I just decided to review once more the data I had from their office. I arrived at the conclusion that the PSU was defective, but that's not as simple as it sounds... Their power draw is much higher than mine, with no significantly improved service, so the power in the outlets in their office was sagging, whereas mine doesn't... So in my office the PSU was getting sufficient power to not act up. In theirs, it wasn't. So, I RMAed the PSU (same model and everything) and took it back up to them.... It worked like a charm and I never heard from them about that computer again.
 
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