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PopcornChicken   10-10-2009 at 04:33:18 AM

Hello! I have recently ordered my build and with help from TomsHardware, I have purchased my build and have put everything together. Before trying a BIOS attempt or a POST without a monitor, I have perfect success. All my fans, parts, lights, etc. work.
NOTE:I have went through the two boot-up problem topics, with no success, so I have created this as a last resort.

 

Then I attempted a POST with my test monitor to begin my BIOS (A VGA HP 17" CRT). I plugged in the correct part for my VGA display to my GPU port. Once I power up, the monitor turns on, then onto stand-by immediately. Once I unplug my monitor cable from my computer while it's running, it turns onto "No video signal found", so my monitor is working. I am purchasing a new 22" HP Widescreen monitor tomorrow since I need a new monitor, so I'll be able to absolutely rule out a monitor issue here with this new one.
UPDATE:My new monitor does not work either.

 

I was also thinking it could be something with my GPX card, so I re-installed/re-seated it. Only to try again with failure. It's seated correctly, so that's not an issue.

 

So I'm wondering what is wrong here, I have no idea. The only thing I could think of was that the VGA input cable was not going all the way into the GPU VGA port, but I'm pretty sure it is plugged all the way in. And the last thoughts of mine, would be a bad graphics card. I would swap out my GTX275 for another card, but I don't have another card to test with. My MoBo doesn't have an onboard video either.

 

Two out of the four LED Diagnostic lights on my motherboard are lit up on start up. However my manual says nothing about what it means..

 

Any thoughts on what could be the issue? My parts are listed below.

 

Case
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
PSU
Antec TruePower New TP-650 650W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE
MoBo
MSI P55-CD53 LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
CPU
Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80605I5750
RAM
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
Op Drive
Samsung SH-S223B/BEBE 22X SATA DVD+/-RW Internal Drive
GPU
GIGABYTE nVidia GeForce GTX275 OC 896MB DDR3 DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card
HDD
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
OS
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders w/ Tech Guarantee

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Bronze Home Brew badge aford10   10-10-2009 at 04:40:10 AM

Do you hear any beeps?

Double check that you've pluged in your 4/8 pin CPU power.

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PopcornChicken   10-10-2009 at 04:44:48 AM

I cannot hear any beeps since my Mobo doesn't have an system speaker (Has far as I know..) I was planning on picking up a system speaker gadget tomorrow.

My 4Pin CPU power cable is plugged in as well.

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Bronze Home Brew badge aford10   10-10-2009 at 04:47:04 AM

You have an MSI board. They usually come with an LED bracket. Did you plug that in. It will give you a light diagnostic instead of a beep code.

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PopcornChicken   10-10-2009 at 04:49:43 AM

AH! Yes, thank you very much for reminding me about that!

I checked my manual about what they meant, however, it only told me the FEATURE. It didn't even tell me what the LED codes meant.

I have 2/4 that are lit up, before and after when the monitor is plugged in.


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Bronze Home Brew badge aford10   10-10-2009 at 05:01:28 AM

Try reseating your video card.
http://us.msi.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp

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Bronze Home Brew badge overshocks   10-10-2009 at 05:11:50 AM

aford10 wrote :

Try reseating your video card.
http://us.msi.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp



He has done that already..you must be joking.

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Bronze Home Brew badge aford10   10-10-2009 at 05:20:04 AM

I'm not laughing. I must've missed the joke.

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Bronze Home Brew badge overshocks   10-10-2009 at 05:36:18 AM

aford10 wrote :

I'm not laughing. I must've missed the joke.



That's too bad.

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Bronze Home Brew badge aford10   10-10-2009 at 05:53:51 AM

overshocks wrote :

That's too bad.



Is retarted post like this how you got your points? We're all very impressed.

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Bronze Home Brew badge niklas_13   10-10-2009 at 06:05:56 AM

aFord10 +1

That *** is very annoying overshock


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PopcornChicken   10-10-2009 at 08:07:44 AM

I've already re-seated my graphics card over 3 times. Nothing worked there.

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Bronze Home Brew badge aford10   10-10-2009 at 08:08:55 AM

Is the fan spinning on the card?

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supe_   10-10-2009 at 05:08:50 PM

PopcornChicken wrote :


Then I attempted a POST with my test monitor to begin my BIOS (A VGA HP 17" CRT). I plugged in the correct part for my VGA display to my GPU port. Once I power up, the monitor turns on, then onto stand-by immediately. Once I unplug my monitor cable from my computer while it's running, it turns onto "No video signal found", so my monitor is working.




This could be a longshot but this happened to me also. I have an old flat screen monitor that I hooked up when first booting up. I got the one beep post but no video, unplugged = no video signal, etc.

Problem was the VGA cable. Apparently much older VGA cables have a pin missing that worked fine in the day but when I replaced it with a newer cable I had laying around which had all pins, it worked.

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PopcornChicken   10-10-2009 at 09:25:08 PM

Yep, the fan is spinning perfectly. Both PCI-E power connectors are installed. I would of turned my system off immediately if the fan didn't spin.

Yeah this is an older monitor.. I'll be picking up a new LCD today, most likely the 23" Acer LCD.

Hopefully this will fix the problem, but if it doesn't, I'll be back.

Thanks for the insight supe_!


Message edited by PopcornChicken on 10-10-2009 at 09:34:05 PM
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PopcornChicken   10-12-2009 at 04:49:35 AM

Update..

New monitor does not work either. I'll try asking EVGA about this problem, until then, any other ideas would could be wrong?

If all else fails I'm just going to RMA.

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Bronze Home Brew badge aford10   10-12-2009 at 06:14:01 AM

From the light code you mentioned, it's your video card.

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PopcornChicken   10-14-2009 at 12:44:18 AM

Hello again! I just breadboarded my comp. Cleared my CMOS again, removed one out of two sticks of RAM, and turned it on. Bam, success! Got into my BIOS and everything is working as it should.

 

Don't know what was exactly causing this.. But I'm about to put it back in my case and I hope it boots up again.


Message edited by PopcornChicken on 10-14-2009 at 12:47:16 AM
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