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No display on monitor by Reaper on 11-11-2008 at 12:21 AM
I've built a new PC but when I turn it on nothing comes up on the screen.
The monitor works on another PC, all the fans, DVD drive and HDD are working.
I think I know the problem but I want someone elses opinion. I think my CPU has died OR that the power supply is wrong
The reason I suspect the power supply is because it comes with a 24 pin ATX cable but no cable for the 4 pin CPU power. Bit confused about this one.
CPU death is something I've seen before and these were the same symptoms.
RE: No display on monitor by matty on 11-13-2008 at 10:32 PM
The board wont power on if you don't have the two power supplies to it.
Did you add a secondary video card and not disable the potential on board one?
RE: No display on monitor by Reaper on 11-14-2008 at 12:19 AM
quote:See thats where I'm confused. Because its a 24 pin cable, do I need the extra 4 pin one?
Originally posted by matty
The board wont power on if you don't have the two power supplies to it.
Did you add a secondary video card and not disable the potential on board one?
And yeh I have added a gfx card, but I also tried with the onboard one.
RE: No display on monitor by Jarrod on 11-14-2008 at 10:29 AM
have you tried turning it on?
is it vga or dvi?
if it's dvi get a dvi to vga and try a vga screen
RE: No display on monitor by Reaper on 11-14-2008 at 12:53 PM
The gfx card is DVI, and the onbaord graphics is VGA. As mentioned before it still doesn't work. It's not the monitor as I am using it right now. Seems like the PSU. But I don't understand why.
RE: No display on monitor by Menthix on 11-14-2008 at 01:01 PM
quote:Sounds like an old power supply. If it doesn't have all the connectors which are required by your motherboard and GPU it simply wont work.
Originally posted by Reaper
The reason I suspect the power supply is because it comes with a 24 pin ATX cable but no cable for the 4 pin CPU power. Bit confused about this one.
If your motherboard requires a 4 pin connector for the CPU and the connector isn't on your power supply, then you need another power supply. No point checking other things until that's fixed.
RE: No display on monitor by Reaper on 11-14-2008 at 01:58 PM
quote:The PSU is new. It's an Xilence one 480W
Originally posted by MenthiX
quote:Sounds like an old power supply. If it doesn't have all the connectors which are required by your motherboard and GPU it simply wont work.
Originally posted by Reaper
The reason I suspect the power supply is because it comes with a 24 pin ATX cable but no cable for the 4 pin CPU power. Bit confused about this one.
If your motherboard requires a 4 pin connector for the CPU and the connector isn't on your power supply, then you need another power supply. No point checking other things until that's fixed.