Why can't i get this PC to work?

[d1abolic]

Just finished putting together a new PC for my parents. But when i turn it on, the monitor doesn't light up. The PC itself seems to be working - the CPU fan is spinning and all. But the screen just doesn't light up. The parts that are connected are: cpu, ram, video card. The monitor is supposed to light up with just these parts connected, right? I tried plugging in the floppy drive too, but that didn't change a thing - the light on the drive stayed on though, if that means anything. So anyway, what's wrong here?

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

Power supply/cpu(and a cooling device)/ram/video card/keyboard is all you need to get all the way into the BIOS of a motherboard and fix the settings for the setup.

Is it in a case or do you have it out?

 

[Czar]

what beeps are you getting?

 

[dysangel]

Your system doesn't like something you're doing.
I would recheck jumpers on your board again.
If you have multiple strips of ram, reseat them and put in one strip at a time.
Only have the video hooked up.
If it's a brand new board, it wouldn't hurt to clear CMOs either.

 

[iamwiz82]

if something isnt plugged in correctly, you will get that. What beeps are you getting?

 

[911paramedic]

If the light on your floppy stays on your cable is reversed where it plugs into the floppy. If you are lucky, there will be a red stripe on the cable, match that with the #1 pin on your floppy.

 

[yakko]

What motherboard and CPU are you using? I just went through something like that with a Biostar M7VIB-A KT266 DDR and a Duron CPU because I left the FSB at 266 which will not work on a Duron. All I got was spinning fans and drives. Set FSB to 200 and everything works fine.

 

[d1abolic]

Took out the video card and put it back in, and then put the RAM into a different slot. Works like a charm now!

 

[ThaGrandCow]

<< Took out the video card and put it back in, and then put the RAM into a different slot. Works like a charm now! >>

So is one of the RAM channels messed up?

 

[d1abolic]

Either that or the video card wasn't inserted well. Too tired to check

 

[Kelvrick]

<< Either that or the video card wasn't inserted well. Too tired to check >>


You probably had one of those mobos with ram banks. You know, bank 1 bank 2, etc... You need to put the ram in the first slot, or it won't work right.

 

[gwlam12]

<< If the light on your floppy stays on your cable is reversed where it plugs into the floppy. If you are lucky, there will be a red stripe on the cable, match that with the #1 pin on your floppy. >>



have u tried that yet

 

[Kelvrick]

<< have u tried that yet >>


He already got it working.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

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<< Either that or the video card wasn't inserted well. Too tired to check >>


You probably had one of those mobos with ram banks. You know, bank 1 bank 2, etc... You need to put the ram in the first slot, or it won't work right. >>