Hello, I am seeking any advice I can find regarding my system that I built around a year ago. I never have quite had it function correctly. Sometimes, I would turn it on and it would output a display and sometimes it would not. When it would not, I would have to manually shut down the computer, unplug it, power cycle, say a prayer, and then try again. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not. Getting tired of this type of issue and having had several knowledgeable people look into my system, we managed to narrow it down to a possible issue with the motherboard. Finally! An answer! So I ordered a new motherboard, which came with new memory, and installed the components last week. I clicked the power button, held my breath, and the fans started spinning up, the lights began to shine in the case, the hard drive kicked up, and....no display. I ordered a power supply tester and all power output appears to be quite normal. I replaced the graphics card today after finding my warranty paperwork. Again, no output. At this point, I no longer know what to try. Here are my components: Thermaltake TR2 600w power supply WD 500Gb hdd msi 970A-G46 motherboard AMD FX6100 EVGA GeForce GT610 G.Skill DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 8Gb memory Samsung Blu-Ray Optical Drive If anybody sees anything wrong with these components or has any suggestions, that would be great. Now, before it is asked, yes, I have checked the DVI cable and the screen does output when I hook my laptop up to it. Any suggestions would be very helpful. If any further information is needed, let me know and I'll be happy to provide it.
Is this the same hard drive, and if so did you reinstall windows ? These type of Problems can be a pain, You will have to test each and every Piece of hardware to narrow it down. Have you tried the Monitor on another desktop ?
It is the same hard drive and I would install a fresh copy of Windows on it if I could get the computer to post. The monitor is saying no signal is detected. I have not tried the monitor on another desktop, but I'm currently typing this while having my laptop hooked up to it. I attempted to use a different graphics card and had the same result yesterday too. I might note that I noticed the graphics card fan spins up hard for two seconds, then spins down for two seconds. This cycle continues until I turn it off. It does this with the new graphics card, the old graphics card, and my test graphics card.
Ok, this can be only 3 things, Bad video card/ Monitor/ or a bad Motherboard video slot.. You could try a video card made for PCI slot..
Everything in your system is practically new except your HDD and monitor right? EVGA GeForce GT610 is the original GPU? What GPU did you replace it with, a replacement 610? 1. Check all connections, sata cables, sata power cables, front i/o panel cables, motherboard's power cable (your motherboard requires an 8 pin power connect from msi website), 24 pin power cable 2. Your GPU, a 610 doesn't seem to require pci-e power connectors, so yeah they would theoretically run smoothly 3. Your PSU is more than enough for your system 4. Even though your RAM is new, try using the other slots.
