First build - no display/1 long 3 short bleeps

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Ok, so I'm building a PC of course and its currently external and I have everything supposedly required hooked up. But, when I turn it on, all fans run (the CPU stock fan runs for a bit, then pauses, then runs again) and then I get the 1 long, 3 short bleep and no display on the monitor. I have tried using a single RAM card in various places and have switched the GPU around to the other PCI Express slots. I'm hoping that its not a compatibility issue with the graphics card or the CPU has been munted because its now firmly concreted in place with thermal paste that was on the stock CPU fan. I have browsed the manual and there is nothing in the troubleshooting section about the bleeps and I've heard something to do with keyboard errors, but I have no accessories attached. I have a:

Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P motherboard,
Kingston Hyper X Blu 8 GB (2x4GB Modules) 1600MHz DDR3 memory,
AMD FD8320FRHKBOX FX-8320 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition

and here's where I think it gets a little sketchy, HIS R9 280 IceQ OC 3GB Graphics Cards H280QC3G2M and a PSU I bought from one of my mates which is a case stock PSU for an Aywun A1-923 ATX case 500 Watt, but according to PCPartPicker my build is under 450 Watts.

Another note, for the GPU there are is an 8 pin and 6 pin slot. The psu only has a 6 pin so I put it in the 6 pin whole, do I need to use the other port or not?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated
 
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cpu power connector? what exactly is that? As far as I know, there isn't a power cord from the PSU that goes directly to the cpu. If you are saying to remove the cpu entirely and reinserting it, I don't exactly know how to do that with the stock fan pasted to the top of the chip.
 
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I think it might be the fact that you don't have the 8 pin plugged in. Also... 500w on a R9 280 might be pushing it. The general rule of thumb is to make sure that you have 100 more wattage than what your computer outputs.
 
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Ok, so you reckon I should buy a new PSU that has both an 8 pin and 6 pin to plug into the GPU with more wattage? What really gets me is that the fan spins in the gpu so I thought it would be getting enough power D:??:

 
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If you don't want to spend anymore money. You can buy power supplies that have the same wattage. But the power supply you have is not reliable. Stock PSU's are really bad with reliability. They might say that it's a 500W power supply, but really they're giving your components lower than what is advertised.
 
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Yes you do!
Get a better psu.
Also check if the ram is put well in the slots.
 
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Ok, you reckon that a the Corsair CX600M would be sufficient? Including the 6 pins and 8 pins i need for the gpu?
 
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