Well hello, I am on this crappy dell. loll well anyways, a few days ago i decided to get a graphics upgrade but had a outdated mb a socket 775, so i got a new Motherboard and it has two Pci Express slots. I put my Graphics cards in before installing them on my hdd just to be sure. I took everything out and put my motherboard in. My Jumper settings are all in the right place too. Positives and negatives, I put my hdd's and my processor cpu fan and 2 system fans. I also have a wireless network card i put in. The motherboard was designed for gamers so doesn't have a on board Graphics slot, but i don't think that is the problem. After clearing cmos for 4 minutes i started it up, my screen wont turn on, Hdd and everything boots up. But not my screen. I tried messing around a changing jumpers again and nothing. It starts up and sits idle for about 45 seconds then shuts down. This motherboard has like a 28 pin atx input but also can handle 24's and 20's and i put mine in the right place. Everything works but i cannot figure why isn't my screen starting up? Any ideas on what to do? Any help is greatly appreciated. If you can fix the problem i will give you a $15 best buy gift card !
28 pin input??? never heard of if you mean a 24pin and then an additional 4 pin, then that si standard. the solution... plug in your PSU to the 4 pin CPU power socket. other thigns to check, verify that the baord works verify that the RAM works, try the RAM in diference slots verify that the CPU works. do you get any beeps on startup or no post whatsoever?
Im not the best computer exp, but i know a little, it sounds to me like a similare problem i had with an older pc i was fixing, it may not be the screen directly, it sounds liek the computer cannot find the c drive, which is its main source of activity its brain if you will, and it boots for "X" ammount of seconds before shutting down, i suggest you pull everything out and start again it could be a fauls connection sommwhere or you may need an old school boot disk which when placed into the A drive makess the computer boot from there, acting as another C drive but being new i'd say its a bad connect because your C drive should be intackt. Best of luck, also Xe sounds like he's also on the money.
ikky, no offense, but you really don't know anything. the terms C drive is a windows only term, as most other operating systems(in fact windows does as well at a system level) refer to drives by their location. Also, harddrives are far from brains, they'de be better compared to a record. you can start a computer without a harddrive. in fact, when PCs were first created, they did not have harddrives and all data was primarily run off of floppies and tape. you might call the CPU(central processing unit) the central brain of the system though, or perhaps the motherboards chipset. lastly, he's not getting video signal. it has virtually nothing to do with him not being able to read data from the harddrisk. ikky does have a point, try taking it apart and putting it back together, you might have somehow missed something.
Im aware of that, RAM being the temporary " Record " and slate whiped clean when shutting down oocurs, yes? ty. I am only going on personal exp, and i have no qualifications in IT by anymeans.
Yes, Ikky that was really the problem kind of. I redid everything because no one was posting, i tested one thing at a time, i guess it was one of my ram sticks that was causing a problem. Now it doesn't recognize the C drive, when i put the sata on the main channel it doesn't find it, when i put on secondary it doesn't boot, This is dumb. I need a boot disk now.
double check the jumpers on the back of the drive, make sure the power cable is secure, make sure the IDE or SATA cable is plugged in correctly. if that doesnt work you could have a dieing PSU cause the often lose power to certain molex connections when sumthing goes wrong.
I doubt you'll need a boot disk for this problem, i did for mine because the computer was a fair few years old. It could be any number of things, prehaps it would just pay to take it to a local i.t guy and paying the 50 bucks for him to slap it together .... Best of luck, i really can't help much.
it's sounding like you have a bad motherboard. if it's having trouble with the memory and nto detecting drives, that's a definite possibility.
lol this happen to me once i lost a DVI port in it, it could be the video card i bought a 7900GT and bulit a gaming rig... later on the first start up the monitor wasn't turning on.. i moved the DVI to the next connection and it worked
