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I had a Dell desktop in the past, but I never used to call it a Dell anymore since I had made numerous modifications. This time I decided to give it a new motherboard and a new CPU to speed things up a little. My build;
- Asus P5K.
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I had a Dell desktop in the past, but I never used to call it a Dell anymore since I had made numerous modifications. This time I decided to give it a new motherboard and a new CPU to speed things up a little. My build;
- Asus P5K. - Q6600. - Nvidia 8600GTS. - 4GB ram (4x1GB - Kingston). - WD HDD (160GB @ 7200rpm). - Antec TruePower (450W). - fan, cd drive, etc.. I thought I had sucessfully assembled everything, but apparently not since every time I try to turn on my computer (w/ a paperclip since I have no case yet), my screens stay black. I have connected the 24-pin and the 4-pin power on my motherboard, I have connected the 4-pin power to my graphics card, I think I did it all. My hard drive does turn on, I can open up my cd drive and my CPU fan also turns... but my screen stays black. I have tried to use a different graphics card, same result. Could anyone help me troubleshoot this problem, tell me what might be wrong? |
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Do you not even get the BIOS screen? Or is it afterwards you get a blank screen cos the OS is invalid?
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I don't even get the BIOS screen, I get nothing at all. When I turn on my monitor all it says is "No input".
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Do you have XP 32bit? 4Gb RAM is more than it will handle.
Also eegit check: have you plugged the monitor into onboard graphics by mistake? Is the fan running on your graphics card? Any beeps at startup?
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Take a GB out and check again.
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Ohhh oops. After having taken a closer look at the memory (was going to take 1 stick out) I noticed it's only 553Mhz... whilst the motherboard only takes 800 and over.
Darnnn, sorryy for my noobishness guys lolll. |
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Well one way or another we got to the bottom of it! We all do stupid things sometimes!
Looks like you have 4Gb of memory for sale!
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i was going to say it will be ram i pondered this problem when i came across it also
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Shittt this sucks. I just bought my memory like 2 months ago.. arg. The vendors might still take it back, teehee.
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