New build and no video signal

nate81

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Hey guys,

Ive just put together my new build and everything seems to turn on, even my xfx 5850 fan is running but for some reason i cant get a signal out to my monitor. Ive tried HDMI to my HDTV first and that didnt work and ive even tried to connect it to a normal vga monitor with the dvi to vga connector that came with it but no love... what can i do???

 

nate81

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i've worked out the problem, it was kinda weird though, i just swapped around the 2 ram sticks and it worked... that shouldnt have been a problem should it? should i run memtest to see if one of them is stuffed?