Desperate need of help

Jacobblast

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Help please! I just got a new computer and after I installed all the parts and everything, it works. the fans go and it all lights up, but it never displays anything to the monitor, and then the fans on the video card just stop after like 3 seconds of it running. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/34w3Lk
Here's the part list. Please help to the best of your ability all I want is for this to work.
 
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Check everything here first. Graphics cards and memory not FULLY seated are the most common cause of these types of scenarios. It's also possible that your B85 motherboard needs a BIOS update to support the Haswell Refresh/Devils canyon chips if it's a revision that was not updated because it's been on the shelf in a warehouse somewhere since before the updated bios were released.

Also make sure you've got the CPU cooler plugged in to the CPU_FAN header on the motherboard and that your display is connected to the output on your graphics card, and not to the video outputs on your motherboard. That's an easy mistake to make. Check to see that both the 24 pin and 4+4 pin CPU power cables are plugged into the motherboard as well...
Check everything here first. Graphics cards and memory not FULLY seated are the most common cause of these types of scenarios. It's also possible that your B85 motherboard needs a BIOS update to support the Haswell Refresh/Devils canyon chips if it's a revision that was not updated because it's been on the shelf in a warehouse somewhere since before the updated bios were released.

Also make sure you've got the CPU cooler plugged in to the CPU_FAN header on the motherboard and that your display is connected to the output on your graphics card, and not to the video outputs on your motherboard. That's an easy mistake to make. Check to see that both the 24 pin and 4+4 pin CPU power cables are plugged into the motherboard as well.


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems



If no love there after checking all of those, then bench the board:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html
 
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