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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... : sanchezThis person is cool!
          • actually a large 24 pin durr : sanchezThis person is cool!
    • Bump just in case someone can help. :( : Aperturion
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      Does your motherboard have onboard video? : ShadowdaneThis person is cool!
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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. : ZekThis person is cool!
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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... : sanchezThis person is cool!
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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? : IwannaacuraThis person is cool!
          • if so, did you break the cpu? : ZekThis person is cool!
    • 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. : GoncynThis person is cool!
      • Yes it is. : Aperturion
    • 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_oThis person is cool!
    • POST beeps? If your speaker is hooked up properly you should get 1 short beep if posts properly. If you'r... : b0mbsquadThis person is cool!