Putting my comp together, Video card problem

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Spi1lz

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Just put my comp together, it consists of:

NEC 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE/ATAPI Model ND-3550A - OEM

ASPIRE X-CRUISE -BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Acer ET.L5209.005 Black 19" 8ms Widescreen LCD Monitor - Retail

ASUS A8R-MVP Socket 939 ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 CrossFire ATX AMD CrossFire Motherboard - Retail

SAPPHIRE 100149SR Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

Rosewill RP550-2 ATX 2.01 550W Power Supply - Retail

Sunbeam Multimedia Green Illuminated EL-KB-09-BKGN Black PS/2 Keyboard - Retail

Sunbeam FireLine Optical Mouse MS-2011-BK-BL Black 3 Buttons 1x Wheel USB Optical Mouse w/Blue Light - Retail

G.SKILL Extreme Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 500 (PC 4000) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ - Retail

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 1GHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4200BVBOX - Retail




OK... I connected everything to my ability. Fired it up, eveything turns on. PSU, Video Card fan, Heatsink fan, HD, etc...

But I am getting no signal to the Monitor.

The video card fan is running, and there is a red light lit up next to the 6 pin connector. But there is also a little 3 pin connector on it, do I need to plug something into that too?

Monitor is just sitting there on, not responding once so ever...

I have the adapters on the outputs of the video card that enable a regular monitor to connect, theres 2 outputs.

What is my problem?


EDIT: I have 2 drives hooked up as well (CD and DVD burner/rom), one has it's light lit up green, the other not. They both do not open. What would keep them from opening?
 
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I just unplugged the ribon from the 2 drives... Now they both open... When the ribbon is plugged in they don't open? Wack?
 
Connect the 3 pin connector you mentioned, see if it works. I beleive your motherboard has onboard video. So try booting without your GPU, and if it works. It might tell you that you have a bad graphics card.
 
bigsaucybob said:
Connect the 3 pin connector you mentioned, see if it works. I beleive your motherboard has onboard video. So try booting without your GPU, and if it works. It might tell you that you have a bad graphics card.
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What plugs into the 3 pin? Don't see a plug that is made for it...

So, try unplugging the video card and booting? Or take the vid card out entirely?
 
If the drives won't eject, you got a motherboard problem. I suspect you shorted something out, or just a bad motherboard. Did you use the stand-off's?
 
Yes, the mobo isn't touching anything... The stand offs where used...

It fires up, the Green light on the mobo is lit... Everything runs?
 
If it's not passing POST, it ain't working :P

If the drives won't eject when connected, and they do when it's not, I feel pretty strongly something's wrong with the motherboard... Do you have expansion cards? Remove them. Do you have two sticks of RAM? Use one then the other and see if there's a difference... You could try another power supply, but I still think it's the motherboard.
 
I am not at my house with the comp right now...

Theres 2 slots for the video card... A black one and a blue one... Could that be the video card problem? Should I put the card in the blue slot?

And if the mobo is shorted, would the green light still light up?
 
I seriously don't think that'll cause the drives not to eject, but that's definetly something to try... And yes, the motherboard could do about anything when it shorts out...I've seen them work like yours, and I've seen them shoot our sparks.
 
The_Other_One said:
I seriously don't think that'll cause the drives not to eject, but that's definetly something to try... And yes, the motherboard could do about anything when it shorts out...I've seen them work like yours, and I've seen them shoot our sparks.
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Rahhh this is why I don't like to build computers, everytime I touch the damn things problems occur... Rah

But uhh, could I return the mobo to NewEgg and get a replacement?
 
Newegg is pretty good with returns. You should get a replacement no problem as long as it's done within 30 days. There's some more crap too...eh, just look it up on their site.

But seeing as you just got everything(right?) there's no reason you can't mess around with it a bit longer and possibly get it working.
 
I switched the card to the blue slot on the mobo... And still nothing... I think I am going to have one of my computer literate friends look at it and see what's up...

Anything else I can try to see what is wrong?
 
I just emailed ASUS with regards to the problem mentioned in this thread... We shall see what they come back with...

I checked newegg for an RMA but they don't allow returns for Mobo's, apparently... It's a manufacturers problem, so we shall see what they say...
 
maybe its a video card problem (see i toled u not to get ati ... j/king :) ) ... so try borrowing your friends pci-e card for an hour, and see if the screen ligts up
 
I'm far from an expert LOL, but I just finished my first build ( on Asus board). I read and reread motherboard manual at least twice and had it right beside my build and checked beside each step.

I do not see anywhere when you attempted start if you first booted off mother CD? Don't know what would happen if you didn't .

Just take your time and check and recheck as you go along. My board also seemed to be one that a lot of people seemed to have problems with but I got er done and you can too.
 
I talked with an ASUS rep (email) and he gave me a troubleshoot list... The most simple one was to take out the RAM entirely, in hoped the mobo responds with bios beeps... Took out the RAM and got no beeping once so ever... Now, what does that tell you?
 
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