New Build. No Monitor Signal

pulpvega · Apr 20, 2015

Hello everyone, I need some serious help here. I'm pulling my hair out cause I cannot figure out what's wrong with my new build. I've googled a few things and scanned through various older threads on here. From what I can gather my mobo might be dead, but I am not to certain if it is or not.

I current have everything pulled out of the case, expect power supply. So I'm almost at bare bones. Prior before removing everything. I had it motherboard, CPU, and power supply, to give a test. My Mobo only gives off one light and that's from the Audio Boost logo. All my fans that I did have plugged into my mobo ran. Graphics card did light up, fans ran, I went out and even bought a new monitor, in case that was the problem. I plugged in my headphones. Never heard beeps, but the sound of that faint static of when I power on the system could be heard. I scanned over the mobo, nothing looks bent. So I could really use some help here.

Here are my specs:
Rosewill ARC-M650, ARC Series 650W Modular Power Supply, 80 PLUS Bronze Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready, SLI & CrossFire Ready

MSI GTX 960 GAMING 2G GeForce GTX 960 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 HDCP Ready SLI Support ATX Video Card

MSI 970 Gaming AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W FD8350FRHKBOX

Desktop Processor
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B

Bossyfins · Apr 20, 2015

I assume you went through the list i posted? If so, does anything turn on? Fans? Lights?

Chayan4400 · Apr 20, 2015

This may be a noob question, but since I see no graphics connectors on the mobo, how exactly are you testing the system with only the mobo and power supply?

Bossyfins · Apr 20, 2015

Chayan4400 :

on the mobo, there are 2 pci e x16 slots. They just look different.

pulpvega · Apr 20, 2015

Fans do turn on, only light on the mobo is from its Audio Boost logo, power button light turns on as well. Along with case fan lights.

Chayan4400 · Apr 20, 2015

Bossyfins :

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I meant Graphics PORTS:

This is the OP's Motherboard I/O

The mobo has no VGA or HDMI, or any visual port of any kind, so how is the OP testing the system to see if it outputs a signal with only the mobo and the PSU?

Also another thing just occurred to me : have you plugged in the mobo speaker, so you can hear the beeps? It should look like this:

To me, this sounds like a graphics card problem, since everything on the mobo seems to power up and work fine. I could be wrong though.

Illumynization · Apr 20, 2015

Just to be sure. Please make sure you didnt put the 6+2 pin PCIe power cables into the top CPU power socket. Make sure you used the 4+4 pin CPU power cable instead.

pulpvega · Apr 20, 2015

My mobo or case didnt come with a speaker. I had been using my GPU for testing on the monitor. I have an older GPU as well, but I couldn't get it powered on. I'm new the building aspect, and I kept reading hear for beeps, didnt known there was an actual connector for it.

Chayan4400 · Apr 20, 2015

Ok, this may help you:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2385734/msi-970-motherboard-wont-post-error-beeps.html

Chayan4400 · Apr 20, 2015

Don't worry, I looked at the motherboard and it seems like there is no speaker pre-installed as well, so you probably will not be able to hear any beeps. Try to test your graphics card in another machine to ensure that is not the problem. Also, what cable are you using to connect to the display? Some people have reported that HDMI does not work on the first time you start it up, so try using a VGA cable just to see if it solves the problem. (If the graphics card doesn't have a VGA port, it should have come with a DVI-VGA adapter. Try using that.).

pulpvega · Apr 20, 2015

Hmm.. Alright I'll give it a shot. I know my old monitor was fickle as all hell with dvi and or adaptors. Which is why I bought a new one. BUT, I never did try the VGA dvi adaptor on my new monitor. Hooking everything back together at the moment, will be back with results shortly.

Chayan4400 · Apr 20, 2015

pulpvega :

Alright, I'll be one stand by

Bossyfins · Apr 20, 2015

Chayan4400 :

Bossyfins :

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I meant Graphics PORTS:

This is the OP's Motherboard I/O

The mobo has no VGA or HDMI, or any visual port of any kind, so how is the OP testing the system to see if it outputs a signal with only the mobo and the PSU?

Also another thing just occurred to me : have you plugged in the mobo speaker, so you can hear the beeps? It should look like this:

To me, this sounds like a graphics card problem, since everything on the mobo seems to power up and work fine. I could be wrong though.

FX chips don't have igpus. So no point in vga headers on io

Chayan4400 · Apr 20, 2015

Bossyfins :

Chayan4400 :

FX chips don't have igpus. So no point in vga headers on io

Exactly what my question asked. OP stated that he was testing with mobo and PSU only, so I was puzzled. But he later confirmed he also had his GPU in, so no problems

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pulpvega · Apr 20, 2015

It worked! Oh man I'm so happy. Thank you Chayan, and everyone else.

Chayan4400 · Apr 21, 2015

No problem, man

If you have any more problems, you know where to come!!! Glad you got it working!!!

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