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lovelakes78

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Hi,

I just got all my parts today to build my new desktop. I wont get into the unimportant items that I bought, just the ones that could possibly be causing this problem.

I installed everything and when I go to power up the computer and the monitor, it first says the name of the manufacture of the monitor and then says "signal not found".

I have it attached via VGA cable right now. I have switched the memory to one slot and also two and also switching them around and nothing still. All wires seem to be correctly in place, as well as everything installed correctly. If someone could throw out a suggestion that would be great. Thank you very much!!!


I have the following items

AMD Athlon 64 3200+Venice
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103572

ASUS A8N5X motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569

Corsair ValueSelect 2x512mb in (a1,b1) memory slots.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145440

BenQ FP91G+ LCD 19" monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824014090

POWERCOLOR Radeon X300SE HyperMemory R37L-SC3D Video Card PCI-Express xc16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131415
 
are all the power cords in right? i.e. the +12v rail isnt off/loose etc, the video card might be off a circuit, i had an x300 and it didn't fit in the pcie quite right, there may just not be a signal.....or at worst the mobo could be dead
 
Check to see if the four wire plug is in. That's an extra 12v feed for the cpu and plugs in right near the socket itself. Without that in the system won't even make an effort to boot. When you power it up do you hear anything like fans running? Check the breaker switch on the back of the supply by going to the other position to see if that is in the off position. Besides the board you could have ended up with a bad supply.
 
Use a single stick of RAM. Try each one and see if either works alone. Try another power supply if you have one handy. I assume it's 24pin?

Motherboard could be dead/shorted, GPU could be dead... It's really hard to tell with a new build.
 
That's for sure! A friend of mine went through two brand new boards trying to find out why there was absolutely NOTHING seen on the screen even after swapping out video cards, supplies, dimms, you name it. When complaint about those went back to the vendor the instructions were to upgrade the bios? No way! You couldn't even get one of the boards to even start the post tests. Finally I said either go with a different make or model. He went with another model to now see a nice and quiet system running. A bad batch was how the vendor later explained those away.
 
Hi,

I called Asus and they are going to send me an "updated bios chip" that I am supposed to swap when received. I took out the videocard and examined it and put it back in snug, making sure it was in and fit with the VGA connected.

As far as fans, the case fan, video card fan, cpu fan turn on. The MB also has a "green LED" that lights up showing the MB is getting power.

I did use 1 memory card each, in different slots and single each and that did not help.

The power supply is on 115 (or what the 1xx number is for Americ).
 
I can assume by you seeing the light on the board and case fans runniing that the lights on the drives went back and forth as if trying to run post tests ruling out a bad supply. You swapped dimms around using one at a time with no difference although bad dimms would less likely see a complete halt with absolutely nothing coming up onscreen at powerup. On many boards you would even hear a set of audio beeps if the cmos, memory, and rom are seeing problems even incorrect settings. If your monitor wasn't connected there may be one there too. A single short beep would indicate a normal post on most boards. But you can look over some audio as well as visual error messages for Award, AMI, and Phonix bioses at: http://www.easyhome.in.th/technical/bios_sound.html
 
Some info...

Is the 12v rail connected?
I was told that is an internal part you cant "connect" it to anything. Everything that needs power is connected to the PSU.


When I turn on the power, I get about 4 short beeps.



PC eye said:
I can assume by you seeing the light on the board and case fans runniing that the lights on the drives went back and forth as if trying to run post tests ruling out a bad supply. You swapped dimms around using one at a time with no difference although bad dimms would less likely see a complete halt with absolutely nothing coming up onscreen at powerup. On many boards you would even hear a set of audio beeps if the cmos, memory, and rom are seeing problems even incorrect settings. If your monitor wasn't connected there may be one there too. A single short beep would indicate a normal post on most boards. But you can look over some audio as well as visual error messages for Award, AMI, and Phonix bioses at: http://www.easyhome.in.th/technical/bios_sound.html
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Found the problem. I had a VGA regular video card laying around and used that for my card test and guess what.....I see THINGS on my monitor now....

Going to call Newegg and get this RMA'd....


Thanks for everything ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
 
@sm100378
trying to hijack a thread isn't a good first imperssion with the mods.

@lovelakes78
glad you got it working. i'm confident that when my parts get here from newegg on monday that i'll have everything connected, and something will be faulty, then i'll spend another few hours trying to figure out what.
 
Who's thread did I hijack? This thread was initally my problem and I asked for help, and I appreciate the input.





computermaineack said:
@sm100378
trying to hijack a thread isn't a good first imperssion with the mods.

@lovelakes78
glad you got it working. i'm confident that when my parts get here from newegg on monday that i'll have everything connected, and something will be faulty, then i'll spend another few hours trying to figure out what.
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My bad, this was my alternative screen name. Again, thank you for the help. I will be happy when I get my video card replaced shortly.

Thx



filip-matijevic said:
Sorry but.... didn't lovelakes78 start this thread?
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Bios version should be one of the 1st screens on start -also should be in your motherboard manual and in a "readme.txt" on motherboard cd.
 
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