Should all these work together?

dire_chinchilla

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I've been building a new PC from scratch and my new CPU finally arrived today. However when I put everything in the case, wired it all up and turned it on nothing much happened. The fans worked ,including the one on my graphics card, but my screen, connected to the motherboard by a VGA cable, said there was no signal. This left me wondering what was going wrong as I'm adamant that everything is wired up correctly except from a ATX 12V Power Connector that my PSU doesn't have. So is this the problem or is there a compatibility issue?
My system comprises of the following:

an AMD FX 4300 processor
1 8GB stick of DDR3 Kingston ram (Part Number: KVR1333D3N9/8G)
an ASRock 960aGM-VGS3 FX motherboard
a EVGA G Force GT610 graphics card
a Crosair CX 430 PSU
and a SATA hardrive from my old Acer aspire with everything still on (windows 7 among other things)
If anyone thinks they know whats wrong or where I might have gone wrong any healp would be appreciated.
 

dire_chinchilla

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I don't think there is an 8 pin socket but as i said there is a 4 pin socket but there's no connector for it on my PSU so is there a connector / adapter I could buy and if so which cable on the PSU do I plug it into?
 

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Can you get into your BIOS, pressing delete when it is booting up? Like a splash screen. Can try disconnecting your gpu and using the motherboard only output.

Lastly, but you may have issues because Windows in non-transferrable from one motherboard to the next. That will give off inherent issues. Also you might have an older BIOS on your motherboard that may require flashing which is a bit techinical, but if youre motherboard isn't that old it shouldn't be an issue.
 

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For your first statement the answer is probably not as my screen just says "NO SIGNAL"
as for your second statement, I have no idea what "BIOS" is but the motherboard is relatively modern and brand new so I think it might be the windows issue. Would using a blank hard drive work?

Correction: I've just taken the GPU out and now windows is "attempting repairs"