new pc help!!

[plotkon]

My friend and I just got finished assembling a new pc. For some reason, once it was assembled, it would not power up. I disassembled the entire thing and rebuilt it from scratch and now it goes on and off fine... prolly just missed something along the way the 1st time. Now however, once the system powers on, it wont send a signal to the monitor to turn that on and there is no display whatsoever. We already tried multiple monitors and all 3 outputs on the video card (VGA, DVI, s-video). The system is brand new P4 3.2 Intel D915PCY motherboard with 2Gb ram and a radeon X700 Pro 256 PCIE video card. Any ideas?? Any help is greatly appreciated.

-pLoTkOn

 

[RichUK]

first things first does it P.O.S.T ok .. any beeps on boot up?

 

[plotkon]

yeah, it starts fine, we tested it on an amp/watt/volt meter and there are no power issues. there are no beeps on startup, the lights on all the drives blink and the hard drive makes its "spin-up" noise.

 

[RichUK]

I should have said in the first post ...list the full system specs .. as you could have bought parts that are not 100% compatibile .. for instance if you had bought a motherboard with an old BIOS rev in there, like me and the MSI K8N Neo2 plat when i bought mine .. it did not support the Winchester, even though the only diff ws the core.. i then had to get the BIOS flashed to a new version to except it and also it did not support my TCCD RAM,

so i gues what i am tring to say try and reflash the BIOS to the latest version depending on what you have purchased.. the re-seller will do this for you if purchase recently ..

 

[plotkon]

is there somewhere i can go to describe how to flash the bios? i have done bios upgrades before, but not w/o a display. i guess ill check the manufacturers website for the latest bios revision. any ideas if that doesnt work?

 

[RichUK]

you will need to create a DOS prompt Bootable floppy disk, that has the manufacturers flash program along with the latest BIOS .. all on the same floppy disk,

you will then need to boot from the floppy disk, and run the Flash program accordingly so that you flash to the latest BIOS .. all data can be downloaded from the manufacturers website, and the bootable floppy can be made from windows (obviously on another computer) .. the problem is though .. there is no known way that you can flash a BIOS without a be able to view anything on the VDU

what are you system specs .. this will help second guessing

the whole system ..

 

[plotkon]

I am working on getting the full list of specs which I should have soon. In the meantime, I just read somewhere that some high end video cards require a separate power input, which if is the case, I definitely overlooked. I am using an ATI RADEON X700 Pro 256 PCIE GDDR3 and am having trouble confirming whether or not it does. Can anybody confirm whether or not it requires its own power for me?

 

[RichUK]

no it will run of the standard 75 watts supplied from x16 PCI-e slot.. here's a pic of the x700 pro PCI-e, notice at the back of the card there is no molex or 6pin PCI-e GFX card power connector

 

[plotkon]

so much for that idea... so now im back to trying to update the bios w/o a display to work with... heres the best i can do for system specs...

INTEL PENTIUM 4 PROCESSOR 540 3.2GHZ/800fsb 775-pin 1MB
INTEL D915PCYL P4 915CHIPSET DDR2 SND LAN PCI-EX
2 KINGSTON VALUERAM 1GB DDR2 PC2-4200 MEMORY MODULE
530W ATX POWER SUPPLY 3FAN
WESTERN DIGITAL WD360GD 36.7GB SERIAL ATA HDD 10000 RPM 8MB BUFFER
SAMSUNG 3.5 INCH 1.44 MB FDD
VGA ABIT|RADEON RX700pro-256PCIe

 

[plotkon]

I also checked the manufacturers website and the processor & memory chips are both compatible with the motherboard.

 

[RichUK]

coming from an AMD background, i will not be able to shed that much light with regards to the mobo and the P4 being used, if they will be compatibile straight out of the box that is .. what i would recommend is that you maybe try another GFX card if you can to see if the display some sort of picture ..

hopefully someone in here will be able to confim whether the setup will be totally complient, and possibily forward some suggestions, you might want to try another GFX card after that, and also try and reset the CMOS on the mother board, have a look at the mobo manual to check which jumper setting it is. or can remove the battery.. you can also try using just one stick of RAM in the first slot in the first channel .. to see if will boot after that ..

 

[plotkon]

Alright, at least I have a few things to try, thank you very much for all your help.

 

[theMan]

did you try the clear cmos jumper, and battery? also, put only one stick of ram in the primary channel. reseat the video card.

 

[plotkon]

ok, i really appreciate everyones suggestions which I tried, but alas, to no avail... anybody got anything else?

 

[plotkon]

after fooling with it some more, i realized that when i turn it on, it doesnt even get as far as checking the floppy and cd drives... i am thinking this is because it is going straight to the BIOS setup screen (since it is a new computer) also tried a different plain pci graphics card which lead to the same results... SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!