Help Please With First PC Build

[Archon261]

UPDATED: Complete. PC is up and running (scrunched down the screen using nVidia control panel) YAY it's complete. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who helped ^_^

1.) [strike]For the SSD and HDD I am only tracking one cable so far (for each) but there are two ports? Is the bigger one for RAID (if so then I don't need to worry about that)[/strike] [done]

2.) [strike]Cable from the H320 unit, says to plug into PSU[/strike] [done]

3.) [strike]Cable labed "GPU Fan" but my GTX 780s have fans build in and no port, do I ignore this cable?[/strike] [seems like I do]

4.) [strike]PC Seems to be finished but can't get anything to show up on screen?[/strike]


The Build (minus a few components that I already had at the time)
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/LordValinar/saved/gwpmP6

 

[Archon261]

*sighs* I'm a dunce... PSU Power Supply .... right... the PSU came with cables for that one *facepalm* I'd like to keep this thread open however as I'm sure more idiotic things will come up that I'll need help with? lol

 

[TechyInAZ]

Just incase you get more headaches LOL, watch newegg TVs How to Build a Computer series. Great for newbies.

 

[J_E_D_70]

The larger SSD connector is power cable, smaller is data.

 

[Archon261]

@J_E_D_70 ah okay I see it now, the same cable I used for the H320's PWM Splitter, I gotchya. Okay so I can mark that one off. Updated with new inquery (There's cables with GPU Fan labled on them, but the GTX780s already have fans on them and no connectors for it? So do I just ignore that cable ?

@TechyInAZ okay I'll check that out then

 

[Archon261]

UPDATE: Turned computer on, everything "Seems" to be working, at least all the fans are (back, hdd, front, side, the 3 fans on the H320 radiator, the graphics card fans are spinning) LEDs are on... everything looks normal, but I'm getting nothing on my monitor (plugged in via HDMI, I don't have any other cables) I've tried the HDMI port for the mobo and the one on the GPU...

And the video doesn't really help me on this :\

 

[shortstuff_mt]

We have a troubleshooting checklist in the stickies section of the forum for this type of problem. Perform all the steps in the checklist and it should help you narrow down what's causing the problem. There's also a link to the checklist in my signature.

 

[Archon261]

Hmm okay, I'll try those out and report my results (go or no-go situation) ^_^

P.S. thanks for the checklist btw

 

[Archon261]

After several attempts following the guide (I have checked and re-checked the cables, tried with only 1 RAM stick, 1 GPU, tried VGA to HDMI cable (I am using a TV, I don't have a monitor) I thought that would work... still nothing. I have just decided to give up and take my PC into an electronics shop to see if they can troubleshoot it. >.>

I know I know... they're rip offs, but quite frankly I dunno why it's not working unless I'm missing something obvious in front of my face and I'm just too ignorant to know what it is, or something. Oh... btw... on the motherboard there was a solid yellow light before... but now there's two? Anyone know what that might mean? I can upload a screenshot if you need to me too..

 

[Archon261]

[strike]most of these places (the electronic shops) say they can't/won't help with building the PC :\ only "diagnostics" well that's some horsepoop. Where the hell can I go to get some help for this.... I don't trust advertising on craigslist... CL is the devil....[/strike]

UPDATE: Okay went to Geek Squad, so taking out the 2 GPUs and SLI cable they were still able to pop up the bios screen so... I at least know some things are working (that's a good sign), they suggested I install the OS and drivers through the onboard ports of the mobo first and something about a load order for the GPUs (beacuse I'm using SLI or something) and then try adding the GPUs (1 at a time if necessary) so that's the 1st thing I'm going to do tomorrow... if this works.... then the issue should be resolved ^_^

 

[Archon261]

UPDATE: Okay well that seemed to do the trick, got OS installed, drivers, GPUs in and the SLI cable on, (I think I can figure how to enable that from here)

But Help? My desktop is partially off screen no matter what resolution I set it at! Taskbar is 1/2 off, as are the icon's starting spots (yea I could move them but task bar is still barely visible and can't really access start menu)

Using a 42" HDTV with 2x GTX 780 TIs with updated drivers (I just finished all that fun...)