I bought a new barebones kit, cpu cooler, and video card. I put all of it together without a problem at all. I started it up for the first time, it loaded through the BIOS, prompted me for a disk to install from, so I inserted by win xp64 disk in. (just loading xp64 to use win7 64 upgrade i got through school) After it read the disk, it went to the blue screen where it tells you it is loading all the blah blah blah.... then went black. Gave it a few minutes, and nothing, so i restarted it. I can not get the monitor to show anything. No BIOS. all fans and drives spin up, no beeps, no video output. I pulled everything back out, double checked it all, and reinserted it. Still nothing. What am I missing? all components are brand new. I stripped it down to mobo, psu, ram and hdd, still can not get video from the onboard output. Please help me
mobo is Gigabyte M68MT-D3 CPU is AMD 1055t Ram is OCZ DDR3 4gb stick PSU is Eagle 550w vid card is GeForce GTX 460 Processor cooled by a CM 212+ Hyper
Could be a faulty RAM card or maybe there isn't enough power going to your CPU. Check each RAM card and check to see if you have the 4 or 8 pin 12v power cord installed correctly. If all of the above fails to solve the issue, shut your computer off. Unplug your power cord. On your motherboard, look for a small silver 3v battery and take it out. Lots of sites say to wait for 5-10 minutes but i don't see the reason. 1 minute should do. This will reset your CMOS. Place the battery back in and turn your computer back on. Hope this helps
I've tried resetting the CMOS, and booting with only the psu and mobo, trying to get the computer to beep for errors. (no luck with beeps) So it should be either the psu or mobo at this point, I'll be trying a friend's psu in a few hours to see if that will isolate the problem. If not i'll see about the mobo i suppose, unless anyone else has any ideas.
If the new psu doesnt solve it, it sounds like there is a problem with the motherboard to me. Once the power is triggered, the BIOS does its hardware checking and initializes video and keyboard, etc but that seems to be where its failing.
