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10-14-2006, 08:18 PM
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Monitor Issue.
Hello. I just built a PC, and everything is hooked up and working. The one problem is that when everything goes on, my monitor doesn't go on with it. The monitor works, the video card is brand new.. Any ideas where I may have messed up? Thanks in advance!
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10-14-2006, 08:26 PM
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Does the monitor LED remain amber or does it go green?
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10-14-2006, 08:31 PM
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stays amber
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10-14-2006, 10:09 PM
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10-16-2006, 05:04 PM
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sorry for taking so long to repost.. Okay, I did that and I'm still having the same problem..
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10-16-2006, 08:57 PM
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Give us all of your system specs and post test results thus far.
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10-16-2006, 09:23 PM
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Did you plug in all motherboard power connections from the power supply?  Cricket
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10-17-2006, 02:17 PM
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sorry for that.. Well, I'm using a
Gigabyte GA-K8NE Socket 754 MotherBoard AMD Athlon 64 2800+ XFX GeForce 7900 2 Sticks of 512 Patriot Signarute RAM Seagate Barracuda 200 GB Hard Drive |
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10-17-2006, 02:55 PM
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Have you connected both the 24-pin main power supply connector, AND the 4-pin Auxiliary Power connector to the motherboard?
What brand and wattage is your power supply. I *believe* Gigabyte gives you the option of using a 20 pin or a 24 pin power supply with that motherboard (by use of a 'cap' covering 4 of the connector pins on the board). If that's the case, you should be using a quality version of the latter - your video card is quite a powerful one. FK
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10-17-2006, 03:46 PM
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Both the 24 and 4 Pin are plugged in. I have an Antec SmartPower 400 W Power Supply.
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10-17-2006, 03:54 PM
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That's a quality power supply (though there's no guarentee that it's not DOA). If you have both power connectors plugged in, with the motherboard out of the case - and only the CPU, video card, and RAM connected - and it still doesn't POST, then you're looking at a faulty component.
Try pulling both the RAM and the Video card, and try powering on. Assuming a speaker is connected to the motherboard, you should get some BIOS beeps, complaining at the lack of these components. If you don't, I think you have a dead motherboard on your hands. I'd also consider swapping in a known good power supply (even if it is only a 20 pin) just to try and rule out the Antec as the problem. FK |
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