Tom's $1250 comp help

Hello everyone,

This is my first computer I've put built myself so I decided to just go with Tom's $1250 computer. Ordered all the parts from New Egg. Assembled everything and went to power it on and nothing shows on the monitor. I get no beeps or anything when I hit the power button, though the fans do run (assume that is a good sign.) I got a IOMagic dvd burner due to the one Tom's recommended was out of stock and the light on the drive stays on continuosly. The Phase LED lights on the mother board light up with (starting from bottom to top of the vertical row) Green, Green, Yellow, Red. There are also the red lights on the video card (if you look at the card there are what looks like 5 possible lights on the lower right hand corner) and of those 5 the first 2 don't light up, and the other 3 are red.

I've taken this thing apart 3 times today and put back together thinking I messed up somewhere. I even compared Tom's pictures to my assembly. I'm stuck/lost and really could use some ideas. I wish my assembly went off without a hitch.

Please help if you can. I can get some video feed of what happens if that helps.

Thanks in advance,

Robert

take out all but 1 stick of ram, if it still doesnt boot change the stick of ram. See if u stuck the 6 pin connector into the Video card.

@The lady slayer

I'm interested in knowing how you will know you've booted into your bios without having the graphics card installed? Do you mean if its a board that has onboard graphics, don't worry about the graphics card yet? Hearing the post beeps is not meaning you're in your bios.

Just want to say thanks for the link. It was #2 on the checklist. I feel dumb. Oh well that's why I don't have a job putting together computers.

Thanks for the help everyone