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[whasup1546]

Hi everyone!

Frequent reader first time poster here.

I've just put together my new rig and I don't even get a screen up. Everything lights up motherboard, graphics card etc

The equipment:

Motherboard: Asus Maximus II Formula
Gfx Card: Zotac 8800 gt Amp
Processor: q6600
Case: Antec 900
HDDs: 2 500gig Samsung Spinpoints
Optical: Samsung DVDR
PSU: Be quiet 650w modular PSU

The 3 drives are hooked up via SATA cables, power is going to everything as far as I can see. 24 pin in the motherboard etc. 1 thing that did stump me was that the mobo had 2 ATX power connectors, EATX12V an 8 pin and the EATXPWR which is the usual 24 pin.

There isn't a speaker for the beeps when it posts which is a pain, but there is an LCD poster attached to the mobo which is meant to tell you of any issues that come up. But it always says 'welcome' when I turn it on!

The monitor remains black with no signal as far as I can see, the 8800gt has been taken out of my old pc, as I was using it to give it a bit of a boost before I built a new one, so I know it works.

Any directions to point me in?

Thanks in advance!!

 

[stoner133]

You did connect both the 24 pin ATX and the 8 pin EATX12V cables from your PSU to the board? Both are required these days. How about the video card did you plug the power cable in on that as well?

 

[whasup1546]

Ah ha! I only have the 1 power cable in! I'll go try that in a sec, the gfx is in and powered up. Damn thing is rather noisy with the case off. I also appear to have double posted once with and once without a title :/

 

[whasup1546]

I'm into the BIOS thanks for the help, first time I've done any pc building since back in the old pentium days!