need help buidling pc

[sportz103]

I just finished putting my PC together and am having a problem. My monitor comes up saying that there is no signal. I have switched all the ram sticks, so that is not the problem. I have tried 2 different monitors (that i know for a fact work) no luck. My video card (Radeon 9600 pro) was taken from a working machine, and has its fan spinning in the one. All the other fans are spinning, and there are no beeps, i removed the ram once to make sure the speaker was working and it is. The only other things that arer posibbly causing it could be the mobo and the cpu. I dont think its the mobo because all the fans ar coming on, hdd's are spinning, and cd roms open. The CPU may be the problem, i dont have another one to test so i dont want to buy another one if that isnt the case. I have refreshed the cmos jumper and removed its battery several times. I know this is a lot of info but i am desperate for some help.

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

Does anything at all power up when you hit the power button on the case? If not, you didnt plug in the "jumpers" from the power LED, power button and reset button.

 

[No Limit]

Also, if you have an onboard video card try hooking that up to see if it works. Post back with the results.

 

[sportz103]

Originally posted by Sgt.Igneri
Does anything at all power up when you hit the power button on the case? If not, you didnt plug in the "jumpers" from the power LED, power button and reset button.

Everything turns on (hard drives, power supply fans, heatsink fan, video card fan, cd drives, lights on front of case)

 

[sportz103]

Originally posted by No Limit
Also, if you have an onboard video card try hooking that up to see if it works. Post back with the results.

No onboard video (I have a biostar m7ncd pro), I will however try out my geforce 3 card now.

EDIT: No luck with this card either. Since the speaker beeped when i removed the ram, does that eliminate either the mobo or the cpu as the problem.

 

[Shuzer]

This is going to sound crazy, but are you sure it's ALL the way pushed in? I've had this problem twice in the past, where I'd get no signal, the fan would be spinning, and no beeps would occur, yet no picture.

Try pushing the very back of the card in firmly, until you hear it click in.. not sure if this is your problem, but it's worth a try (seeing as how I bought an entire new motherboard because of this problem.. oh well, that's in the past)

 

[sportz103]

I'll go try that a couple times, i might have been a bit gentle seeing how its a fairly high-end card (at least compared to the others i own)

EDIT: sadly thats not it, I may just take it to the computer shop in the morning if i cant get it to work

 

[Shuzer]

Do you have a PCI VGA card to test with?

 

[sportz103]

no, I've tried with a Radeon 9600 Pro, TNT2, and Geforce 3 MX, all with no luck. And I got them all out of working machines so I know they work. I'm pretty tech savvy and cant really think of what it might be. I'm hoping Best Buy will try to repair it if i bring it in, even though it wasnt made by a company.

 

[Shuzer]

Sounds weird.. I hate it when I run into problems building a computer, really annoying once you think you're all done and it should boot up fine

I'm out of suggestions =( hope you get it fixed though.. maybe someone else can shed further light on the subject

 

[sportz103]

Thanks for the help you gave man, may not have worked but you still put in your two cents. Thanks again.

 

[The Dark Elf]

ok long shot.. make sure your cpu fan and heatsink is fitted properly. It might seem like its on right but it can fool you. I built one once and had very similar problems, everything seemed to work like it was supposed to except it wasn't coming on. Turned out the fan/heatsink wasn't quite fitted properly, though to look you would have never guessed.

 

[crabcakes66]

did you possiby damage any components while installing them?

cpu...ram ect.....

 

[sportz103]

I'm thinking now it's probably the CPU, I'm gonna borrow one from a friend in the morning and see if that works. Otherwise I'll have to get it professionally fixed , I hate failing, but I want it to work.

 

[Washuu]

i remember building mine, and i screwed up the power button and lights thing, so i was sitting there going WTFUX!! BSH4X OMG, when i kept pressing the power button and nothing would happen
or like when my floppy drive went beserk, and would keep trying to load something, just in the end finding out in connected the ribbon cable the wrong way

 

[Asus]

Disconnect your monitor from the VGA on the gfx card, power off the monitor and get rid of any charge the monitor has (let it sit plugged into the wall). Sometimes a charged monitor can result in "no video" as you plug the it into the VGA.

Make sure your heatsink/cpu has good contact.
I would remove the heatsink to double check.
There is usually plastic covering the bottom of the heatsink when you get it.
Did you remove the plastic? Sometimes it's hard to see and its possible you could have missed that.
If you do not wish to apply your own thermal paste, keep the thermal pad on there. Don't use both. If you apply thermal paste, take the pad off.

 

[Shuzer]

I don't see how an improperly placed heatsink can cause no signal to be sent to your monitor

 

[crabcakes66]

its possible that he damaged his cpu......i chipped off the corner of my old cpu and got the same "no signal" message

 

[oD1Nz]

Were you properly grounded during installation? Or, in other words, did you use an anti-static strap or touch the PSU before installing the CPU/motherboard/graphics card?

 

[Asus]

well if he didnt put on thermal paste properly or left the plastic on its possible his motherboard is auto shutting his CPU down from heat asap.

Is your motherboard giving you any beep code, is it beeping more than once?

 

[sportz103]

ITS WORKING!!! It was both the cpu and the power supply, i was switching out everything indiviually so i kinda forgot it couldve been two things. Thanks for all the help you guys gave, some really great suggestions for if this happens to someone else.

 

[Mac]

wtf thats bogus.. your an unlucky man to recieve a faulty psu and cpu

sorry to hear, and glad that you fixed it