Help with video output

[morganw]

i have just put together a comp for my kids ( wish i hadnt now)

it has a gigabyte 7vt600p-rz mobo
winfast a360 256mb
2x 512mb

i have it all connected and when i power it up the computer does the normal beeps and the fans etc go but my monitor just says check video cable and after a short time goes on stand by

any help would be great


I did try loading the winfast driver on another hdd running xp pro but same thing happened

 

[Paperdoc]

Make sure the monitor is set to use the correct input - for example, DVI if you are using the DVI output port and cable from the video board.

 

[morganw]

im using the vga port and the monitor i had it set up on is an older 1 that only has vga,
i did try on my samsung 42inch lcd but nothing happened and that was using the vga cord to

 

[Paperdoc]

So you get absolutely no output showing on either of two different VGA monitors. The video card must be suspected.

Does this card need a power supply fitting directly from the PSU (a 6-pin connector), or does it get all power from the slot it is in. I suspect it is in an AGP slot.

 

[morganw]

yip its is agp and theres no power connector on it but the fan on it is spinning i just cant get any output

 

[morganw]

do i need a drivers cd or should my system just pick it up straight away and go to the bios screen as i dont have an os on it yet

 

[morganw]

i put the video card into another mobo and its works fine so any ideas what could be going wrong

 

[tsnor]

No driver needed for the BIOS to dispaly. You are not getting bios display, therefore not Operating system problem.

Does the display come out of standby when you hit power button on PC, display the "my monitor just says check video cable " message you report, and then go back to sleep? Or does this message just appear when you power on monitor?

There is a reset procedure for bios on MB. Have you done that ?

re: "computer does the normal beeps " The BIOS uses beep codes to communicate with you if it cannot display video correctly. The codes are unique to the bios vendor. IF you are using an award bios then 1 long, 2 short beeps means video adapter error. Try removing and reseating the video card. 1long, 3short No video card or bad video RAM Reseat or replace the video card. http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm#

 

[tsnor]

Aside: If you get bored debugging then $100 buys you an AMD E350 based MB, CPU, video that (with 4GB ddr3 = $35) will game vs. the kid's system you are building which won't. (winfast a360 256mb = no shader model3 = no game)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007623%20600110408&IsNodeId=1&name=AMD%20E-350%20APU&ShowDeactivatedMark=False

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-e-350-atom-d525-nvidia-ion-2,2905-10.html look at e350 results.

p.s. if you are using this system for win XP make sure you are on service pack 3 before trying to use this MB. If your current disk is IDE, then you'd need a disk too and you are getting into the $200 range, which probably doesn't make sense.

 

[morganw]

i think it maybe the cpu as there is no beeps now, i have an xp disk and coa so thats not a worry.

the other mobo works but after playing with the gigabyte mobo i think i have stuffed the hdd as i get an i/o error now