Home built computer won't go to bios

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PixelPancake

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Hello!

Just recently, I purchased the parts to built my own gaming PC. Once I had everything ready to boot to BIOS, I realized my mother board did not come with a VGA port, only a COM1. I then got an adapter, letting a usb turn into a VGA port, so my monitor would turn on. When I turned on the PC and the Monitor, the monitor did not go to BIOS or whatever the term is, even with the windows 7 disk in the optical drive. It would just give the options to go to VGA or DVI-D. I selected VGA, which put the monitor into sleep mode right away. Same thing with DVI-D. When I turn on the PC, the fans run, and the lights will turn on, so I'm pretty sure that's working. Just not the monitor. Help??


PC Specifications:

CPU: Phenom II X4 965
Motherboard: ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 AM3+ AMD RX881/760G SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Low Profile Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M2A1600C9
HDD: HGST HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache
SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Disk Drive: LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X
DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS124-04 - OEM
Power Supply: RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-530SS 530W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Power Supply
Graphics Card: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB PCI-E Video Card (100315L)
Case: Thermaltake New Soprano

Sorry for the long names. I copy and pasted from the products I bought on Newegg and Amazon.

Thanks!!
 
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PixelPancake

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I plugged the DVI-I to VGA adapter into my graphics card and then into the monitor, the screen gave the options to pick a "power source" of either VGA or DVI-D, which I don't have either of. Does that mean I need to get a DVI-D to VGA adapter instead of my DVI-I to VGA that came with my graphics card?
 
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mr goodtimes

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Judging from the low end parts you bought and your lack of computer knowledge, your gonna electrocute yourself. Either have someone who knows what their doing build for you, or return that low end hardware and buy one prebuilt from bestbuy for $500 and pay them put put a decent graphics card in for you. Then you can play minecraft or angry birds all you want.
 
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Are you saying your monitor doesn't have anything other than a VGA connector? It doesn't have an HDMI or DVI?
 
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PixelPancake

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It actually does not. just a blue VGA to plug into the monitor on one side and a blue VGA to plug into the graphics card on the other. If you mean another place to plug one in on the back of the monitor, yes. I have one VGA and one DVI. On my graphics card is just a place to plug in a DVI-I (dual link) and a DVI-D (dual link), but whenever put the VGA cable from my monitor into the VGA to DVI-I adapter connecting to the graphics card, the monitor says it wants a DVI-D instead. I'm terribly sorry for my most likely silly problem, this was my first build.
 
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