New build, all turns on but wont show on monitor.

[flash727]

everything fires up fine, but no beeps and doesnt go to bios or it might, just not showing up on screen. Any suggestions would be a great help. Ive tried one stick at a time, and fireing it up with the min. hooked up. thank you.

Acer X223Wbd Black 22" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor
OCZ Gold 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Chan
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS 600W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI

 

[flash727]

forgot about vid card, its a older card, but is hooked up to the psu and all lights up and fans spin.

 

[shortstuff_mt]

What motherboard do you have?

Is the 4/8 pin CPU power cable plugged in?

 

[flash727]

motherboard is a Asus p5be
I ran it w/o any ram and it gave me 3 beeps ( one long two short ). then put one stick back in and no beeps.

 

[shortstuff_mt]

It's most likely a BIOS issue. The P965 chipset does not officially support the 45nm CPU's like your E8400. There are some beta BIOS's availabe, but you would have to get a 65nm CPU in order to flash the BIOS. That motherboard is a pretty old model. There have been two chipsets since then.