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Nothing will show on my monitor.

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supaga

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Okay so I recently got a computer from my brother who built it himself. The hard drive was small so I decided to replace it. When I put in the new hard drive I tried to put a flash drive to set up the OS. I put the windows iso using Rufus. The flash drive light flashed showing it works but after about an hour nothing still popped up. I decided maybe the boot order is out of wack so i put in back the old hard drive to try to and get to the BiOS but once again, nothing popped up (after waiting about an hour). I was told by a friend to restart the CMOS and remove the RAM and video card and replug everything in. I did all that, yet the new hard drive still won't allow anything to show on the monitor.

The parts of the computer are
New Hard Drive - Seagate Desktop HDD 3000GB
Old Hard Drive - Hitachi Deskstar 500GB
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3
Video Card - MSi N550GTX Ti Cyclone II
Power Supply - GX 750W Cool Master
RAM - Vengence LP 4GB x2

Edit: I forgot to add, both hard drives run fine, and the mother isn't dead.
 
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Try a minimal install using the onboard video without the graphics card, no hdd, one stick of ram. Make sure the ram is in the right slot for that configuration. The only way to narrow down possible issues is to build from the ground up else, you're just plugging and praying.
 
Its working, thank you so much. Once the OS is installed is it safe to replug everything back in? I'm fairly new to all this and just now learning.
 
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