New set up - No display

Hi guys,



I put together a completely new computer yesterday with brand new everything. I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly. After it was assembled and I switched it on, there was no display on the monitor. I need some help with this. Everything is on tight and in the right place. Even when I put the windows CD in, or the graphics card drivers disk, still nothing happened. I'm getting pretty agrivated and I can't figure it out. Here is my setup:



-nForce 4 ultra motherboard

-AMD Athlon 64 3500+ cpu

-ATI Radeon X800xl graphics (pci express)

-ocz modstream 520W PSU

-dual 512mb ram

-sound blaster XFI

-160gb HD



Thanks in advance for the help



~Dave

Well it seems that the computer manifested this problem on its own.



What EXACTLY did you put together.. A list of everything...

I dont understand what you mean, I put the whole computer together...

Did you attach a six-pin power cable to the card? I think the X800XL requires one.

No, my card doesn't require a power cable

what brand is your x800?



else, try starting the system with only the processor, the mobo, the grafics and the Ram. ( that would illiminater all other components as the cause.)



and, you might want to try a bios reset. with the CMOS jumper(i had that problem when i bought my k7t le mobo. )

The brand is ATI


Sorry, I'm kinda new...could someone explain how to do this?

I just tried removing the sound card from the PCI slot - same thing.
BTW, the fan on the graphics card IS coming on

What kind of monitor do you have? What connections are being made to the graphics card? etc... that's all I can Think of for now.

Its just an old digital 15", which I have had no previous problems with.



I tried my mothers HP monitor just to double check, and it didn't work on that either.

i dont mean the GPU's brand, but the brand of the card. like Club3D, eVga saphire and such. ( or does Ati also make its own cards)



anyhow, for a bios reset. you have to look in the manual where the CMOC jumper is located.

when you found the jumper, set it to the other pins. ( usually its a group of 3 pins, so when the jumper was first set on pin 1 and 2, you have to set it on pin 2 and 3.) then you have to wait a few seconds, and put then jumper back onto its original position.



tough.. the fact that the fan's are spinning means not much,. only that the PSU is turned on.

when my AMD Thunderbird fried, and i hitted the powerbutton of that pc, all the fans started spinning, but nothing happend.

so.. the also might be a chanse that you have a Bad CPU..