Motherboard/Graphic Card problems

[845]

I have been building a computer and we cannot get the monitor to start. Its not the processor because we bought a brand new one think the old new one was the problem. There is no signal getting to the monitor at all. The board does not have a built in graphics card. The card I am using is a Geforce FX5200 and the Motherboard is an XFX Mach 4. Any idea what the problem is. The monitor is a brand new liquid media plasma 17". The computer runs but monitor wont even turn into green light mode.

[e mag]

if the monitors power button wont even come on then it is probably a problem with the monitor.

[845]

No we have tried it with 2 monitors.

[impostal22]

this may sound obvious but did you try different outlets for the monitor's power cable? maybe the outlet you're using is dead..

[OfficerGoat]

1st off... does the board post? I.E. does it run the Floppy and then Give you a single beep? If not what does it do... One long and two short beeps or no beep at all???

[e mag]

Check your mobo's manual for the POST code. Take everything out except the cpu then boot and make sure it detects the cpu. Then put in the ram, boot, and make sure it works right. Then put in the video card and boot and see if it works.

[slushee]

I ran into the same problem ... check the processor and remount it if neccessarily

If the processor hasn't been installed properly, then you wouldn't get any video

[devildog]

Originally posted by e mag
Check your mobo's manual for the POST code. Take everything out except the cpu then boot and make sure it detects the cpu. Then put in the ram, boot, and make sure it works right. Then put in the video card and boot and see if it works.

it wont post if there is no ram in there.

what kind of processor are you running in there? make sure your motherboard supports it, and supports the front side bus (fsb) of the processor you are using.

[845]

The monitor is on it just isnt working. No beep. We dont have a floppy its all CD but the keyboard lights flash but the num lock light wont go on. We took everything off and it still wont work. We are using an AMD XP3000+ it came bundled with the motherboard. I have 1 gig of ram. The lights on the CD drives all come on. So there is power to the board.

[e mag]

Mine POSTs without ram. I have an asus P4C800 deluxe and when i had a video problem thats what the tech said to do.

[devildog]

did you try reseting the motherboard? look in the manual for where the cmos reset jumper is, and reset it, if you want you can even remove the batery and short the leads, that would make sure it got reset. try that, if that dont work, you might have a blown board or processor, its tough to say. do you have another processor from another computer you can try in there?

[sps16]

make sure that you pressed the video card all the way into the agp slot, sometimes it looks like its in all the way and its not.

[OfficerGoat]

No beep can mean two things. 1)Its not posting ... poss bad main board. or 2) you didnt hook the speeker up properly. Make sure the speaker is plugged into the correct pins on the board.

If you remove the video card and boot it it should scream( Beep out an err code). If it isnt screaming when you removed the video card try pulling the ram.. does it scream then? If no.. then you have a bad main board. Take it back. If it screams when you remove the vid card then you proboly need to replace the video card.


BTW your board WILL NOT POST without ram of somesort. It may have onboard ram... but I havent heared of that sort of thing since 486s were prevalent. Now it can posibly do video and start to post... but it will fail out on the POST and wont boot to OS.

[e mag]

Originally posted by OfficerGoat

BTW your board WILL NOT POST without ram of somesort. It may have onboard ram... but I havent heared of that sort of thing since 486s were prevalent. Now it can posibly do video and start to post... but it will fail out on the POST and wont boot to OS.

I'll check the manual when I get home, but i'm pretty sure mine can. I was having a problem and an asus tech told me to first take everything off the mobo (cpu, ram, agp and pci cards, ide devices) and start, and it gave me a post code. I might have left the ram in though, I will check tonight or tomorrow when i'm home.

edit: I don't feel like taking my comp apart, but I downloaded my mobos manual and there is a vocal POST message that says "System failed memory test" and says that the cause of this would be that memory isnt installed or defective.

[OfficerGoat]

Exactly... It failed mem test.... hence it didnt post. For a box to "post" it means it passes all the tests and moves to the next step. In a fail mem test situation it fails post and hangs at that point.