New PC Setup Troubles - Please Help

[Croda]

Hi, I'm building a new PC for my brother but cannot get any video to the screen at all. Any ideas on what the problem could be? I've taken the mobo out of the case and run it with only vidcard and RAM to see if I could get any picture, and I get nothing. The fan spins on the GPU heatsink but no picture. If I unplug the monitor cable, I get a no signal message on the monitor, so it must be detecting something when plugged in. I have also dupliicated this on 2 monitors and with 2 vid cards, one of which I know works.

The setup is an MSI K7N2 Delta with a Sapphire Radeon 9600 and 2 256MB sticks on PC2700. I'm going to try to drop to 1 stick of RAM and see what happens. Right now, I can't think of anything other than a bad AGP slot. Is there something I'm missing?

Please help, I've only got today and tomorrow to fix it before I head 400 miles away and leave him with a pile of parts.

Thanks!

 

[Bonesdad]

sounds like the mobo...make sure there is nothing in the agp slot (or ram slots for that matter)...otherwise??

 

[Croda]

Another thing, this board came with a D-bracket, that plugs into the front USB pins and gives a 'debug' of sorts on any system problems. It consistently shows a 'video signal' error.

I was hoping it wasn't a bad board as that will leave him to put it together by himself, but if it is, not much I can do about that.

Any other thoughts before I tell him he has to RMA it?

 

[Croda]

Getting the same thing even with no RAM. I suspect I'll contact MSI.

Could I be missing something? Anything else I can try?

 

[Croda]

Is there any chance this could be the processor?

 

[WHipLAsh13]

Do you get a POST beep?

 

[Croda]

nope. When the speaker is plugged in I get a beep that repeats every 3-4 seconds, but no POST beep. Just an amber light on the monitor.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

hmm. No post could be Motherboard or Processor. Usually if it was Memory it will give you error beeps. Video card could also cause no post too but if you have tried multiple cards you can pretty much rule that out. My guess would be Motherboard but only real way to tell would be to swap out processor.

 

[BennyD]

could you try another mobo/cpu?

 

[yabanci]

I had the same EXACT problem on a computer I set up a few days ago and after my panic tried clearing the the cmos -- and it worked; I got the video. Have you tried that? I had to move a jumper on the epox 8rda+ motherboard to clear the cmos, so check your motherboard manual on how to do it and give it a try.