My new motherboard most of the time has no display

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I bought a new MSI motherboard G41M-P23 previously I was using an Intel d102ggc2(max. 2 Gb ram is the reason I changed my motherboard). I have a Intel Pentium D 2.8 Ghz processor with an ATI HD 4850 graphic card ( this was working fine on my previous Intel board) and a mushkin ddr3 1066 4gb ram which I bought with my motherboard yesterday. I installed it myself yesterday but now when i switch on most of the times i have no display with no beep only light that is ON on casing is the power LED.

I am not so sure about my processor but I think it is a 820 Smithfield 2mb cache and 800 mhz I bought it sometime in 2006.

The power that i bought is a 450 watts the guy who sold me the graphic card said your normal power supply is not sufficient for this card which was also 450 watts.

someone told me its the power supply unit that is causing this problem.
 
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A 4850 needs about 10 amps (120 watts) to power it, so a good 450 watt PSU (at least 30 amps on the 12 volt rails) is certainly adequate, especially since you have a pretty basic system.

I won't go so far as saying that MSI boards are rubbish, but I think a Gigabyte G41 board would have been better. But then I am probably biased. I own a couple, along with two P45's and a P35. :)

Like apache suggested, remove the 4850 and run with the onboard video to eliminate any problems with inadequate power. There is no need to change any of the video settings in the BIOS. The BIOS will automagically detect the presence of a video card.

If that doesn't work:
Work systematically through our standard checklist and troubleshooting thread...

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I bought a new MSI motherboard G41M-P23 previously I was using an Intel d102ggc2(max. 2 gb ram is the reason I changed my motherboard). I have a Intel Pentium D 2.8 Ghz processor with an ATI HD 4850 graphic card ( this was working fine on my previous Intel board) and a mushkin ddr3 1066 4gb ram which I bought with my motherboard yesterday.



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A 4850 needs about 10 amps (120 watts) to power it, so a good 450 watt PSU (at least 30 amps on the 12 volt rails) is certainly adequate, especially since you have a pretty basic system.

I won't go so far as saying that MSI boards are rubbish, but I think a Gigabyte G41 board would have been better. But then I am probably biased. I own a couple, along with two P45's and a P35. :)

Like apache suggested, remove the 4850 and run with the onboard video to eliminate any problems with inadequate power. There is no need to change any of the video settings in the BIOS. The BIOS will automagically detect the presence of a video card.

If that doesn't work:
Work systematically through our standard checklist and troubleshooting thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-read-posting-boot-problems
I mean work through, not just read over it. We spent a lot of time on this. It should find most of the problems.

If not, continue.

I have tested the following beep patterns on Gigabyte, eVGA, and ECS motherboards. Other BIOS' may be different, but they all use a single short beep for a successful POST.

Breadboard - that will help isolate any kind of case problem you might have.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/262730-31-breadboarding

Breadboard with just motherboard, CPU & HSF, case speaker, and PSU.

Make sure you plug the CPU power cable in. The system will not boot without it.

I always breadboard a new build. It takes only a few minutes, and you know you are putting good parts in the case once you are finished.

You can turn on the PC by momentarily shorting the two pins that the case power switch goes to. You should hear a series of long, single beeps indicating memory problems. Silence indicates a problem with (in most likely order) the PSU, motherboard, or CPU. Remember, at this time, you do not have a graphics card installed so the load on your PSU will be reduced.

If no beeps:
Running fans and drives and motherboard LED's do not necessarily indicate a good PSU. In the absence of a single short beep, they also do not indicate that the system is booting.

At this point, you can sort of check the PSU. Try to borrow a known good PSU of around 550 - 600 watts. That will power just about any system with a single GPU. If you cannot do that, use a DMM to measure the voltages. Measure between the colored wires and either chassis ground or the black wires. Yellow wires should be 12 volts. Red wires: +5 volts, orange wires: +3.3 volts, blue wire : -12 volts, violet wire: 5 volts always on. Tolerances are +/- 5% except for the -12 volts which is +/- 10%.

The gray wire is really important. It should go from 0 to +5 volts when you turn the PSU on with the case switch. CPU needs this signal to boot.

You can turn on the PSU by completely disconnecting the PSU and using a paperclip or jumper wire to short the green wire to one of the neighboring black wires.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWXgQSokF4&feature=youtube_gdata

A way that might be easier is to use the main power plug. Working from the back of the plug where the wires come out, use a bare paperclip to short between the green wire and one of the neighboring black wires. That will do the same thing with an installed PSU. It is also an easy way to bypass a questionable case power switch.

This checks the PSU under no load conditions, so it is not completely reliable. But if it can not pass this, it is dead. Then repeat the checks with the PSU plugged into the computer to put a load on the PSU.

If the system beeps:
If it looks like the PSU is good, install a memory stick. Boot. Beep pattern should change to one long and several short beeps indicating a missing graphics card.

Silence, long single beeps, or series of short beeps indicate a problem with the memory. If you get short beeps verify that the memory is in the appropriate motherboard slots.

Insert the video card and connect any necessary PCIe power connectors. Boot. At this point, the system should POST successfully (a single short beep). Notice that you do not need keyboard, mouse, monitor, or drives to successfully POST.
At this point, if the system doesn't work, it's either the video card or an inadequate PSU. Or rarely - the motherboard's PCIe interface.

Now start connecting the rest of the devices starting with the monitor, then keyboard and mouse, then the rest of the devices, testing after each step. It's possible that you can pass the POST with a defective video card. The POST routines can only check the video interface. It cannot check the internal parts of the video card.
 
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As I have stated earlier I bought a new PSU since the shop where I bought 4850 told me that my normal PSU( which was PowerLogic) is not sufficient I bought one from him although it is not such a good quality one. I have removed the graphic card and still had the problem I went to the shop today for warranty since it is chinese new year their technicians are on holiday I have to go back after 2 days.

Thanks for your reply I will try the checklist later and see if that works for me.
 

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Hi :hello: ...I am not being rude by mentioning this too late or after your last post,but if you use a lot of your old previous hardware & put them onto a newer model of motherboard then you should always check the future motherboards brand name manufacturers site to see if your cpu is supported ;) ...With ram you only have to put DDR2 with DDR2 slots on the motherboard and the same with your graphic card,but the cpu's are regulated by the bios in your motherboard and you can not update using another bios update from another motherboard,because they test their bios out on the specific motherboard that they say it is for ;) ...Also a handy hint for the future,think of the new intel H55 & H67 chipset based mainboards...They have onboard VGA,D-DVI and HDMI support on the back of the IO panel & if you use certain cpu's on the H55 chipsets like core i5 680, core i5 670 they have onboard cpu graphics so you save money on buying a graphic card ;) ...Also for the H67 chipsets,the whole of the sandy bridge line of processors support onboard graphics via the cpu that have been released so far,so you can again save money on buying a video card ;) ...I hope that I have been of some help even though I have replied too late :) ...
 

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If you have read my first post you can see I wrote that I have a pentium D processor. I wanted to upgrade so that I could play games like modern warfare 2. I don't want to spend money on a i5 processor when I can play all games on my current pc.