big problem...nothing on screen

[jamesbrown]

I've just finnished buiding a new SUPER pc.

It's got a Gigabyte motherboard, a 1TB hardrive, and a 500GB hardrive.

It's got a Geforce 9800GT graphics card.

 

Everything assembled blah blah blah. Plug it in, switch it on. All fans running nicely, but nothing on screen....and yet the screen was plugged into power and the back of the pc.

 

My motherboard has two different places that the graphics card could go, should i try the other? Also the little sound bleeper that makes the BIOS beep comes separatly and you have to put it in yourself and i don't know where.

 

Please tell me how to fix the graphics first, all i need is to get to the BIOS and then take things from there, but for now i can't do anything.

 

If i had the bleeper installed i could listen to bleeps and try to work out the problem from there but i can't coz the bleeper isn't in.

 

Pleeeeeaaaassseeee help on this.

[DirtyPolo]

Hey James,

funnily enough when building my PC I had the exact same problem, what is the model of your motherboard, so that I can find a picture so that it is easier to explain what I would like you to check and try.

 

thanks.

 

If you know what to look for yourself, and then check you have connected the P4 connector from your PSU to your motherboard and that your PCI E cable from your PSU is plugged into your graphics card.

Edited December 24, 2008 by DirtyPolo

[jamesbrown]

cheers

 

Yep. that was the problem. It didn't tell me to do that in the manual that i was using to help me build. Did exactly what you told me and it now works fine!

 

Thankyou!

[DirtyPolo]

No problem, glad to help :P

I made the EXACT same mistake when building mine :P

 

so you're not alone.