Originally Posted by damien c (Post 35141644)

Does the motherboard have a 4 or a 8 pin socket next to the cpu?

If it has a 8 pin but 4 coverd have you removed the cover and tried it with all 8 pin's connected to the board from the PSU?

I would 1st try disconnecting all the drive's from the board and see if it display's a image or not on the screen when the graphic's card is connected, then if it does connect each drive and try again 1 at a time and see what happen's, if you still get no signal then I am certain it will be a faulty board and or graphic's card but more than likely the board alone.

Have you used the correct lead to the graphic's card, not trying to say your stupid but if it requires a 8 pin power connector just make sure you have used a pci-e not a 8 pin cpu power lead.

If all lead's are correctly installed and drive's etc and you still get no display on the monitor, try another graphic's card if you can and try the new graphic's card in another pc to rule that out.

Or your other option is to send the everything back and get them to test everything and replace anything that might be faulty.

Originally Posted by ooogemaflop (Post 35141664)

I believe power connections are keyed you cant fit an 8 pin 12 aux to a pci e it simply wont fit

Originally Posted by sniper007 (Post 35141735)

Install the MINIMUM components. i.e. One single stick of ram (in the correct slot, read the manual that came with the mobo). Make sure the CPU is in the slot properly the correct way around (check the arrow on the corner of the cpu corresponds to the place on the mobo). Make sure all PSU cables are connected to the various power points on the mobo (ATX 24 pin, 4/8pin, etc). Then install the graphics card and ensure it has a PCI-e power connector connected to it.

Then DO NOT install anything else like HDDs, CD/DVDRom or anything. Just try booting the Computer. What happens? Do you get any activity when observing the computer with the case door/side panel off? i.e. Does the CPU fan attempt to spin? Does the PSU come on and the fan start? Do any LEDs come on or beeps from the mobo?

Obviously ensure that the monitor is connected with a VGA/DVI cable to the graphics card you have installed.

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If you could also post a picture looking inside the computer and how you have it all connected, this might help.

Originally Posted by sniper007 (Post 35141750)

Can you explain what you mean buy "the dvd drive cutting out as soon as the IDE is connected". Explain the process/steps you took. What are you defining as "cutting out" ? Surely you cannot test the IDE drive as you cannot get the system booted? You are not making a lot of sense.

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35141751)

I tried that last night ,just had the gfx attached no post at all .The problem is that there are no on board graphics so i cannot connect a monitor to the board (another reason to send it back)

Originally Posted by sniper007 (Post 35141754)

When you say you had JUST the graphics card attached, do you mean you literally only had the graphics card plugged in and no cpu/ram installed?

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35141751)

I tried that last night ,just had the gfx attached no post at all .The problem is that there are no on board graphics so i cannot connect a monitor to the board (another reason to send it back)


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When the dvd drive is connected with the powerr connection and the IDE cable the drive does not work no light on the front and the drawer does not open ,remove the IDE cable and the power comes back on and the drawer opens ,i find this confusing as i thought the IDE cable is only carrying information not power ,i have tried different cables and the dvd works fine in the other pc

Originally Posted by sniper007 (Post 35141759)

I would suggest you forget about the DVDRW drive for now and focus on finding the fault. So...with CPU/RAM/GFX installed, you press the power button on the PC (I assume this is wired into the motherboard so you can power it on?) you get nothing? No fans spinning up? No LEDs? Have you tried reseting the CMOS? DO you know what is involved with this?

Originally Posted by sniper007 (Post 35141759)

I would suggest you forget about the DVDRW drive for now and focus on finding the fault. So...with CPU/RAM/GFX installed, you press the power button on the PC (I assume this is wired into the motherboard so you can power it on?) you get nothing? No fans spinning up? No LEDs? Have you tried reseting the CMOS? DO you know what is involved with this?

You could also try swapping out the ram for different sticks.

Failing that, I would try your spare power supply just to see if you can get an output on the screen and POST (Power on self test).

Do you not get any LEDs or beeps on the board during boot? Some motherboards will beep or present LEDs during post do help diagnose the fault. i.e. Say 1 LED = CPU found, 2 LED = Ram found, 3 LED = Gfx found, 4 LED = running post. It could do something like that with beeps instead.

Originally Posted by sniper007 (Post 35141784)

You could try the GFX card in the other PCI-e slot. I assume you have it in slot 1 currently? That motherboard does NOT have what we refer to as "onboard" Graphics. This means it will not have a connection to a monitor natively. You HAVE to use the graphics card (the 5770 you have bought) to output to a monitor. Is it possible you have not set the monitor to pick up the digital (DVI) signal or vice versa with VGA analogue? You should try setting the monitor to different inputs manually incase it is not auto detecting it correctly.