I bought a long-awaited, hard-earned new computer, which arrived yesterday:
Intel I5 Ivy Bridge 3450 3.10ghz CPU
Asus P8z77-V LX Motherboard
1 TB Serial ATA Hard Drive
16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz patriot Viper Memory
Nvidia GTX 650 TI 1 GB PCI-E Graphics Card With HDMI
Windows 7
It arrived almost a week earlier than I was expecting so I haven't even got the monitor for it yet. To test it was working, I plugged an HDMI-HDMI cable from the PC to my HDTV (A Philips 32"... I don't know the exact model but if it makes a difference, I'll find out!). The lights and fans come on, but the TV says 'No video signal'.
I don't know if it boots up W7 because obviously I can't see! There are no obvious error beeps.
I've tried searching for answers for the last 24hrs but most involve checking settings, and of course without a display, I can't do that! I'm assuming other people are using the HDTV as a second monitor or have a monitor available, which I don't.
The hdmi slot is on the mb. Could this be the problem? The card has a min-hdmi, dvi and vga. Do I need to use one of those instead? (And if so, out of interest, why does the mb have a hdmi slot at all if it's not usable!?)
Im a long way from town here and don't drive. My daughter just went into the local PC shop to get a HDMI-min-HDMI adaptor or lead and he insisted that she didn't need that at all; that the HDMI-HDMI would 'do the job' as it's 'all on the same graphics card anyway'. The 'same card' comment suggests I may be thinking along the right lines...?
Any ideas or info you can give me would be much appreciated at this point. I'm just about ready to call it 800euro's-worth of night-light at this stage!! (well, the neon blue lights are pretty cool!)
Intel I5 Ivy Bridge 3450 3.10ghz CPU
Asus P8z77-V LX Motherboard
1 TB Serial ATA Hard Drive
16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz patriot Viper Memory
Nvidia GTX 650 TI 1 GB PCI-E Graphics Card With HDMI
Windows 7
It arrived almost a week earlier than I was expecting so I haven't even got the monitor for it yet. To test it was working, I plugged an HDMI-HDMI cable from the PC to my HDTV (A Philips 32"... I don't know the exact model but if it makes a difference, I'll find out!). The lights and fans come on, but the TV says 'No video signal'.
I don't know if it boots up W7 because obviously I can't see! There are no obvious error beeps.
I've tried searching for answers for the last 24hrs but most involve checking settings, and of course without a display, I can't do that! I'm assuming other people are using the HDTV as a second monitor or have a monitor available, which I don't.
The hdmi slot is on the mb. Could this be the problem? The card has a min-hdmi, dvi and vga. Do I need to use one of those instead? (And if so, out of interest, why does the mb have a hdmi slot at all if it's not usable!?)
Im a long way from town here and don't drive. My daughter just went into the local PC shop to get a HDMI-min-HDMI adaptor or lead and he insisted that she didn't need that at all; that the HDMI-HDMI would 'do the job' as it's 'all on the same graphics card anyway'. The 'same card' comment suggests I may be thinking along the right lines...?
Any ideas or info you can give me would be much appreciated at this point. I'm just about ready to call it 800euro's-worth of night-light at this stage!! (well, the neon blue lights are pretty cool!)