[Stuartyesdaddy]

Just got the new PC today and I'm trying to boot it up, but the monitor keeps telling me "no signal". The monitor and cable work fine (tried it with another computer). The fans turn on (PSU, motherboard, video card), and the keyboard lights up, but nothing comes through to the screen. I have no OS yet, but in my limited experience I believe that I should still see a POST screen - plus, I have my XP CD in the drive and that doesn't help either. I've taken out each stick of RAM and tried them one by one. The motherboard does not beep, but who knows if it would beep anyway (never booted this rig up before). I have a red light on the motherboard when it's powered down, and when it turns on, I have the red and also a blue light on. USB mouse does not light up in any USB ports.

Specs for the computer are:
PSU - 650W
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
Motherboard - MSI nForce 750i SLI
RAM - 4G (2 x 2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel
VGA - eVGA Geforce GTX 260 Superclocked Edition: 896MB
? - Non-SLI/CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
HDD - 500GB SATA-II
? - Standard Setting : Non-RAID
Optical - 20x Dual-Format/Dual-Layer DVDRW Driver
Other - 12-in-1 Flash Media Reader / Writer

The ones marked '?' scare me a little because I don't know what they really mean. If anyone thinks I have settings that are incompatible, that would really help - although they say they test everything before it ships.

Can anyone help me? I can't call tech support for the company who built this for me for 3 days and I want to use the PC before then!

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

 

[emosun]

Have you tried another monitor on the pc first just in case? Don't want to get into anything very in depth if it's something simple. I've also heard ps2 keyboards can prevent a post if not plugged in or even plugged in.

 

[Stuartyesdaddy]

I don't have another monitor to try - is there any way to hook it up to my laptop screen? I did attach the monitor to my laptop and the monitor worked fine (but that's not testing anything in the new computer - just rules out a faulty monitor).

Having the ps2 keyboard in or out doesn't change anything, I just tried that one.

What's next? Thanks

 

[emosun]

Try bench testing the machine. This basically means disconnecting all non essential hardware that it does need to post (drives , extra cards , extra ram , ect..)

 

[akkadian]

Just got the new PC today and I'm trying to boot it up, but the monitor keeps telling me "no signal". The monitor and cable work fine (tried it with another computer). The fans turn on (PSU, motherboard, video card), and the keyboard lights up, but nothing comes through to the screen. I have no OS yet, but in my limited experience I believe that I should still see a POST screen - plus, I have my XP CD in the drive and that doesn't help either. I've taken out each stick of RAM and tried them one by one. The motherboard does not beep, but who knows if it would beep anyway (never booted this rig up before). I have a red light on the motherboard when it's powered down, and when it turns on, I have the red and also a blue light on. USB mouse does not light up in any USB ports.

Specs for the computer are:
PSU - 650W
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
Motherboard - MSI nForce 750i SLI
RAM - 4G (2 x 2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel
VGA - eVGA Geforce GTX 260 Superclocked Edition: 896MB
? - Non-SLI/CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
HDD - 500GB SATA-II
? - Standard Setting : Non-RAID
Optical - 20x Dual-Format/Dual-Layer DVDRW Driver
Other - 12-in-1 Flash Media Reader / Writer

The ones marked '?' scare me a little because I don't know what they really mean. If anyone thinks I have settings that are incompatible, that would really help - although they say they test everything before it ships.

Can anyone help me? I can't call tech support for the company who built this for me for 3 days and I want to use the PC before then!

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

I wouldn't worry about the '? standard setting non raid' is just the setting on your HDD. It's irrelevant to the display. The non sli/crossfire mode is just a setting on your graphics card. Shouldn't be the problem either I don't think.
It sounds very similar to my problem. I removed every connector and RAM from the mobo and blew air on the sockets and connectors. It worked fine then. It's annoying that these kind of problems still exist.

 

[mikeman22886]

is this a retail rig or did you build it?