Hey all,
I built my first computer recently, had a friend help me, watched a ton of videos and read quite a bit about it so I didn't for anything; however, now that I have finished it I seem to be having a problem starting it up for the first time.
Specs real quick:
AMD Athlon X4 860k Quad Core CPU
Antec 900watt psu
GTX 970 GPU
MSI A88XM e45 motherboard
Corsair vengeance 16gb (2x8) RAM
Case is a Corsair Obsidian 350d
and a 500gb Intel SSD
Samsung ODD
Problem:
Starting it up for the first time, I believe I left out the little speaker that connects to the pins on the motherboard, (not referring to the case audio) but I plugged it into my monitor with a dvd-I cable into the port on the graphics card then flipped on my power supply and turned on the computer. Nothing appeared on the monitor and I didn't hear the POST beep for 15 minutes or so, so I turned it off. I then read that i needed to plug in the little 4 pin speaker cable into the motherboard, so I did, not sure if I plugged it into the right 4pin slot, though.
After that I plugged it into my monitor again, same result. Tried my small TV with an HDMI connection; same result.
I have everything plugged in, surely, both the 24 pin power cable and the 4 pin cpu power cable, the GPU is plugged into the power, as is the SSD and ODD, I just don't know.
If anyone can help me with this, I would be very grateful.
Thanks
I built my first computer recently, had a friend help me, watched a ton of videos and read quite a bit about it so I didn't for anything; however, now that I have finished it I seem to be having a problem starting it up for the first time.
Specs real quick:
AMD Athlon X4 860k Quad Core CPU
Antec 900watt psu
GTX 970 GPU
MSI A88XM e45 motherboard
Corsair vengeance 16gb (2x8) RAM
Case is a Corsair Obsidian 350d
and a 500gb Intel SSD
Samsung ODD
Problem:
Starting it up for the first time, I believe I left out the little speaker that connects to the pins on the motherboard, (not referring to the case audio) but I plugged it into my monitor with a dvd-I cable into the port on the graphics card then flipped on my power supply and turned on the computer. Nothing appeared on the monitor and I didn't hear the POST beep for 15 minutes or so, so I turned it off. I then read that i needed to plug in the little 4 pin speaker cable into the motherboard, so I did, not sure if I plugged it into the right 4pin slot, though.
After that I plugged it into my monitor again, same result. Tried my small TV with an HDMI connection; same result.
I have everything plugged in, surely, both the 24 pin power cable and the 4 pin cpu power cable, the GPU is plugged into the power, as is the SSD and ODD, I just don't know.
If anyone can help me with this, I would be very grateful.
Thanks