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No signal to monitor and error A2 - ASROCK Z77
I've recently built a new machine. The title explains most of the problems I'm having with it off of the bat, and I'd rather ask than bang my head against the wall.

On the initial boot, I had an issue with my monitor. When the DVI cable isn't connected to the MoBo, it simply says so. But, when the cable is attached, the display goes into power save mode immediately. When I mess with the face setting buttons on the monitor, it tells me that it isn't receiving a signal (guessing the monitor isn't the problem?). Anyone have guesses as to what that's about? I've already attempted to reseat the RAM, as I see that as a suggestion in a few places, as well as a really basic power button trick with no power to the monitor. Any guesses as to what's wrong with my display?

That aside- after messing around with the RAM, I've attempted to boot up again, but get an error A2 on my ASROCK Z77. In the manual, it says that this is an IDE detect problem. I've checked my connection to my hard drive, and it looks fine. I have 3 other HDDs and a DVD drive in- but they are only connected via power cable to the PSU. I don't have the data transfer SATA cables in, because I wanted to simplify the initial boot process. Could this be the reason for the error?

Edit: it basically was the GPU. I had it connected to my MoBo's onboard, but moved it to the graphics card and all was fine. Then selected to boot once I had a display, and the SSD/HDD problem resolved itself. Thank you.
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September 23, 2014 5:44:13 AM

well your first problem with no display on the monitor. it can be either the memory module(RAM) and the GPU(video card) you should have tried to reseat both.
the second one is probably the motherboard is not seeing your hard drive. try to connect the other drive. see if they get detected.

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