- Sep 8, 2014
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Hey everyone,
So, last night I finished assembling my first PC with no prior experience (parts link below). Everything was running great, I got into BIOS, got Windows installed, got some drivers working, no hiccups whatsoever. Then I restarted for a driver... oh boy. The PC booted up great: all lights and fans working, keyboard receiving power, optical drive spinning discs, etc. The thing was, absolutely no signal was being sent to the monitor, either through a VGA connection from onboard graphics or through a DVI connected to my dedicated GPU. The monitor and all cables are fine, I've tested everything. I tried for an hour and a half to get the screen to display an image, but kept getting "no input." Frustrated, I turned the PC off and went to bed.
This morning, I pressed Power and it worked flawlessly again. I passed it off as a one-time quirk, and then later I realized that I'd forgotten to add a PCE WiFi adapter. I turned off the PC (including power supply), opened it up, keeping myself grounded against the case the whole time, and installed the part. Then I booted the PC back up... same problem. Everything is powered, but I'm not getting any signal on the screen. I let it sit around for an hour or so, but it didn't help, and I'm getting really frustrated. It's not the graphics card, because I can't get the onboard card to emit anything either, and I'm fairly sure that fried motherboards don't spring back to life overnight. Can anyone tell me what might be going on? Because I'm completely stumped, and ready to start pulling hair out.
PC (keyboard is actually SteelSeries, all other components accurate):
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/zk9pD3
So, last night I finished assembling my first PC with no prior experience (parts link below). Everything was running great, I got into BIOS, got Windows installed, got some drivers working, no hiccups whatsoever. Then I restarted for a driver... oh boy. The PC booted up great: all lights and fans working, keyboard receiving power, optical drive spinning discs, etc. The thing was, absolutely no signal was being sent to the monitor, either through a VGA connection from onboard graphics or through a DVI connected to my dedicated GPU. The monitor and all cables are fine, I've tested everything. I tried for an hour and a half to get the screen to display an image, but kept getting "no input." Frustrated, I turned the PC off and went to bed.
This morning, I pressed Power and it worked flawlessly again. I passed it off as a one-time quirk, and then later I realized that I'd forgotten to add a PCE WiFi adapter. I turned off the PC (including power supply), opened it up, keeping myself grounded against the case the whole time, and installed the part. Then I booted the PC back up... same problem. Everything is powered, but I'm not getting any signal on the screen. I let it sit around for an hour or so, but it didn't help, and I'm getting really frustrated. It's not the graphics card, because I can't get the onboard card to emit anything either, and I'm fairly sure that fried motherboards don't spring back to life overnight. Can anyone tell me what might be going on? Because I'm completely stumped, and ready to start pulling hair out.
PC (keyboard is actually SteelSeries, all other components accurate):
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/zk9pD3
Worked like a charm immediately. All those hours sunk into troubleshooting...
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