Computer Problems

[darkwarlord]

I have built a new gaming pc and for some reason when i plugged it in for the first time i got no signal to my monitor. Please help me out here it is driving me nuts
Here are my hardware specs

XFX 750i SLI motherboard
Core 2 Quad2.5Ghz
GeForce 9800 SLI cards
750watt Power Supply
1 Seagate 500 Gb HD
2 Seagate 1.5 TB HD
Sony DVD-RW
Crucial 8Gb of Ram

No operating system on it yet but like i said it won't give a monitor signal not even show the bios
I hear everything running in the case so please if you can help me i would love that

Thank You

[tehboris]

Is the CPU a Q8300?

Have you tried different RAM configurations?

Are there any beep signals?

Have you tried different graphics card configurations?

Have you tried different ports on the graphics cards?

Have you tried different combinations of power connectors from the power supply?

Did you definitely plug every thing in?

Have you tried just having the minimum (motherboard, CPU, RAM graphics card) connected together?

[darkwarlord]

Originally Posted by tehBoris

Is the CPU a Q8300?yes

Have you tried different RAM configurations?yes

Are there any beep signals?no

Have you tried different graphics card configurations?yes

Have you tried different ports on the graphics cards?yes

Have you tried different combinations of power connectors from the power supply?yes

Did you definitely plug every thing in?yes i wouldn't start a system if they weren't

Have you tried just having the minimum (motherboard, CPU, RAM graphics card) connected together?yes

my answer are there

[chrispycritter]

Are you hooked up via the onboard graphics or the card and have you tried hooking up the monitor to both to see if you get a picture from one of them? Another problem might be the default setting could out of range of the monitor you are using..if you have another monitor laying around you might try hooking that up until you can change the settings if that's the problem...

What kind of monitor do you have? Do you see a button labeled Auto/Select or Menu? You might try pressing the Auto/Select or whatever the buttons on your monitor are labeled. This will sometimes switch whatever mode the monitor "thinks" your hookup is (DVI, VGA, HDMI). Assuming you are not getting any error beeps of any kind, this might be your problem. I've had to press the Auto button on some of my monitors at times to get video to come up. (You may have to press the button more than once, and wait a few seconds to see if anything shows up, and press again until you see the BIOS or a message telling you to insert the OS disk.)

[darkwarlord]

Originally Posted by nunman62

What kind of monitor do you have? Do you see a button labeled Auto/Select or Menu? You might try pressing the Auto/Select or whatever the buttons on your monitor are labeled. This will sometimes switch whatever mode the monitor "thinks" your hookup is (DVI, VGA, HDMI). Assuming you are not getting any error beeps of any kind, this might be your problem. I've had to press the Auto button on some of my monitors at times to get video to come up. (You may have to press the button more than once, and wait a few seconds to see if anything shows up, and press again until you see the BIOS or a message telling you to insert the OS disk.)

I have done all of that and it doesn't work this is driving me crazy i am going to be taking it to a computer tech shop to get it looked at because everything that you all have sent me i have already did and i thank you for the help but this is not helping but again thank you for all the advice

[nav13eh]

As chrispycritter, do you on-board graphics and a gpu? So, plus into the on-board, change the bios graphics card setting to the GPU, and restart plugged into the GPU. I have had this exact issue in the past.

Well if his motherboard is the XFX 750i SLI motherboard, it does not have onboard graphics, at least not according to the info and pictures I've seen of it.

I do have a suggestion for darkwarlord though. If you truly want help from any of us, you should tell us up front what you have tried doing to resolve your PC woes when you posted your question. That way, you won't waste your time or ours when trying to come up with an answer to your problem. None of us here are mind readers. We don't know what you have tried till you have let us know to start with. I think I can speak for the rest of posters here (if not, they will let me know), they truly do want to help you with your problem. And to say, "I've already tried that!", you should let everybody know that information up front to begin with instead of wasting everybody's time! Ok, I'm finished with my rant now.