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03-20-2006, 07:55 AM
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Where Are My Beeps?
Okay, went to Newegg and bought the following components under the impression that I would be able to put it all together easily. It was based on a PC mags "budget box" for gaming, and I figured it was a good first time build. It's turning out to be more of a hassle than I imagined. I spent five hours on Friday wiring, double and triple checking before plugging it in and pushing the power button. I got power to the motherboard, fans spinning, and lights came on, but no signal was sent to the monitor.
So I went up, checked the "Having problems with a new build? Try this" thread up top. Sounded good, so I uninstalled everything, including the CPU and heatsink, from the case, and tried again. Not knowing what "touch screwdrivers to the motherboard" step was fully, I just plugged in the case wiring for the power button to the MOBO, but otherwise, didn't change any steps. Pushing the power button, the heat sink and the video card's fans came on, the lights on the memory stick came on, but I couldn't get a reading to the monitor again. Sigh...here are the stats: eVGA 256-P2-N516 Geforce 7800GT CO SE 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card MSI K8N Diamond Plus Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3000BPBOX Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6V300F0 300GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM Antec PERFORMANCE TX TX1050B Black Steel Server Computer Case 500W ATX12V v2.0 Power Supply 2 Corsair 1GB DDR 400 (3200) Memory Sticks I've rotated the memory sticks around, and changed the graphics card between the 2 PCI slots hoping it was something like that...I plan on going to Best buy this evening to buy a cheap video card to see if the video card is faulty. Does anyone else have any ideas what to do with this? |
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03-20-2006, 09:31 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Follow the troubleshooting instructions found here. You must remove the motherboard from the case when doing this...you're trying to determine if the motherboard is shorting/grounding out to the case somewhere.
 Cricket
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03-20-2006, 10:35 AM
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Cricket,
Thanks for the reply. I has already followed the steps from that link up to the "use a small screwdriver", as I wasn't 100% sure what exactly that was about, and felt more comfortable just using the case cable plugged into the power button. |
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03-20-2006, 10:36 AM
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You say you've already tried the steps in the thread Cricket linked to, the fact that you're still without a display would point to a faulty component. See if you can borrow an old PCI graphics card from a friend, or out of an old computer, rather than buying a new one.
Another common cause of no display is forgetting to connect the Auxiliary 4-pin power connector to the motherboard. Make sure yours is connected. FK
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03-20-2006, 10:45 AM
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Auxiliary 4-pin power connector to the motherboard? Hmmm...the GeForce 7800GT has a connector on the actual graphics card where a connector from my power supply will go into...where is this Aux 4 pin coming out of?
Sorry, but I'm about as new as you can get with this, so all of the terminology is fairly new to me, and I'm doing this from work (not in front of the rig). Thanks, Freakitchen. |
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03-20-2006, 10:50 AM
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Ok, the 4 pin AUX connector provides power to your CPU, in addition to that provided by the main 24 pin connector.
Your power supply will have this connector (4pins, 2x2 config). Looking at a picture of your motherboard, it needs to be connected to the 4 pin socket right at the top of the board, and slightly to the left from centre. FK |
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03-20-2006, 10:59 AM
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Jesus, that may be it. I think that I would have remembered plugging that in somewhere...hmmm....too bad I can't rush home to check right now. I DO remember plugging in the large 24 prong into the mother board. There's a four prong that I plugged directly into the side of the video card, but you're saying a plug like that goes into the motherboard, eh?
Hmmm...very interesting. Christ, I hope that's all that it is. |
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03-20-2006, 12:57 PM
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The plug that goes into the video is a 4pin molex connector, looks like [....] The 4 pin aux looks like this:
. . . . It's a square 2x2 pins. It is pretty easy to miss.
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03-20-2006, 07:33 PM
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Score! Got the video that I've been looking for. Thanks, board! I'm sure I'll be back tomorrow with more questions...
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