Morning Discussion

by Alice O'Connor, Jan 14, 2011 5:00am PST

I'm still catching up on my Inter-reading, and beginning to suspect that people are in fact writing new things all the time, so here's another wodge of links for you this rainy/snowy/dry/damp/wet/hot/cold/sleety/arid/scorching Friday/Saturday.

A collection of Czech and Polish posters for Godzilla and other Japanese monster movies. They're very stylish and cool, though 'Son of Godzilla' is curiously unsettling.

Branding blog Brand New takes a look at THQ's new logo and concludes that while there are a few problems, "it is a bold improvement over the previous one."

A video trip down the London sewers, complete with gawping at fatbergs and sniffing out how posh an area is. Pleasant lunchtime viewing.

Telephones ruin society, Wondermark discovered. Not your 'iPouch' or whatever it is you crazy kids gush over, but those old wired telephones (you don't believe me but these genuinely did exist). Back in 1889. It's been downhill since then, we can all agree.

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By: Aperturion x Show Full Post

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Computer making (wo)menz

Yesterday, I started building my own computer for the first time. Everything was going well until I had to plug my monitor into the computer. For some reason none of my monitors (The two I've tried were working just yesterday.) are able to get signal from the motherboard or the GPU. Any ideas at what might be wrong?

Jan 14, 2011 9:34am PST

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Computer making (wo)menz Yesterday, I started building my own computer for the first time. Everything ... : Aperturion
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  Does your mobo maybe have 2 power ports and you only plugged on in? : akirabob
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    Nope, Everything is plugged in correctly and the mobo's getting power. : Aperturion
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      You plugged the CPU fan in as well? I know this is posted a lot when these threads pop up. : rolecks
      
      Yup, just checked : Aperturion
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      Just to be clear - motherboards now have two connections, a large 12 pin and a small 4 pin. Both are in r... : sanchez
      
      actually a large 24 pin durr : sanchez
- Bump just in case someone can help. :( : Aperturion
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  Does your motherboard have onboard video? : Shadowdane
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    Yes it does. : Aperturion
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      disable it in the bios/ or plug the monitor into that and see if you get a signal then disable it in the ... : NukemForever
      
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      Sorry, but I don't actually know how to get into the BIOS. I thought you had to have a monitor to see it. : Aperturion
      
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      Take out your video card and try booting up with the onboard video. : Zek
      
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      Still no signal. :( : Aperturion
      
      Is there a source button on your monitor? Sometimes I found they don't auto detect the source that's send... : sanchez
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  is the GPU fan spinning up? what motherboard do you have? : .frame
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    Fan is working fine and getting power. The mother board is ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AM3 AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/... : Aperturion
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      Does that MB have any debugging LEDs on it to tell you what's happening? : .frame
      
      Yeah, the Dram_LED is not lighting up, which means it not detecting an error. : Aperturion
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  Can you post the specs of your build? : Leviathan41
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    The specs are: -EVGA 012-P3-1470-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HD... : Aperturion
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      So you push the power button, the fans spin up and stay on, but plugging a monitor into either the onboar... : Leviathan41
      
      This is correct. : Aperturion
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  You're not getting any POST beeps either? Assuming you've double-checked everything already, pull everyth... : TrulyVexed
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    Oh, you mentioned your monitor is HDMI.. is that what you're using? Or are you using VGA / DVI? : TrulyVexed
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      Using HDMI : Aperturion
      
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      Are you able to test using VGA? Keep it basic? : TrulyVexed
      
      VGA doesn't work either : Aperturion
  - I don't think you ever answered if you're getting POST beeps or not. You say it's a new system, but ... : GrnMonster
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  I don't mean to insult you with this, but it happened to a friend of mine with his first one. Did you act... : hyperion25
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    Yup, I lined the triangle up with the triangle which is what the manual said was correct. : Aperturion
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      Did you lock it in place? Like hard lever that makes you feel lime you gonna break CPU? : Iwannaacura
      
      if so, did you break the cpu? : Zek
- Motherboard LEDs? If it has them what is it saying? Also i had this problem happen to me i replaced some ... : 65532l
- Might want to unplug all your add-in cards/memory and reseat everything. : famine101
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  Is your RAM fully seated? Try taking it out and putting it back in. : Goncyn
  - Yes it is. : Aperturion
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  Here's how I would check it. Turn everything off and the only things plugged in to the motherboard should be:
  CPU
  RAM
  Monitor (VGA or DVI would be better than HDMI for debugging)
  Power Supply
  If one of those little piezo speaker things came with the mobo, plug that in.
  
  Just double-checking that power supply (because I've made this mistake before and it acts exactly like you're seeing). Your motherboard has TWO places that need power supply connected.
  One is the big 24 pin thing. The other is a 4/8 pin connector, seen near the upper-right corner of this picture:
  http://usa.asus.com/websites/Global/products/umllTHNRm4IGqnbL/H1zrroCg7G7EYX3h_500.jpg
  
  Now, turn on the monitor first.
  Then turn on the computer.
  Give it a few seconds, a lot of monitors take their pretty time 'waking up'.
  Does it make ANY sounds/beeps???
  
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  Here's how I would check it. Turn everything off and the only things plugged in to the motherboard should... : vitaminzach
- got dual memory right? Take out one stick, try the system. swap sticks, try system. : steve_o
- POST beeps? If your speaker is hooked up properly you should get 1 short beep if posts properly. If you'r... : b0mbsquad

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