Monitor doesn't display anything when I boot pc

Davidss99

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Apr 13, 2015
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So I booted my pc and the monitor says "no signal" I have plugged in the HDMI cable in my monitor to the video card's HDMI port. The motherboard doesn't have a display port VGI or DVI or HDMI ports. The pc doesn't have an operating system yet and i have not installed its drivers. I have 2 ram sticks in the far left slots near the processor i don't know if that affects anything. I have the power cable plugged in and everything works smoothly. The corsair h105's led is working the pc turns on. the graphics card cable plugged is plugged in.

Specs:

Motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-X99-PRO-DDR4-2011-3-Motherboards/dp/B00OUSJ5X6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428806347&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+x99+pro

Graphics Card: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-STRIX-GTX970-DC20C-4GD5-Graphics-Cards/dp/B00NJ9BJ8G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428806766&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+strix+gtx+970

Power Supply: http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-V750-Compact-CrossFire/dp/B00ISCG6MI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428806918&sr=8-1&keywords=cooler+master+750v+power+supply

Liquid Cooling: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Extreme-Performance-Liquid-CW-9060016-WW/dp/B00HKEI3EY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428807031&sr=8-1&keywords=corsair+h105

Ram Sticks: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-DDR3L-1066-PC3-8500-CT2K4G3S1067M-CT2C4G3S1067M/dp/B008LTBJFM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1428807364&sr=8-2&keywords=8gb+ram+sticks

SSD(Solid State Drive): http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428807250&sr=8-1&keywords=500gb+ssd

Case: http://www.amazon.com/ca-ph410-g1-Phantom-Tower-Gaming-Gunmetal/dp/B007QQ4638/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1428807415&sr=1-3&keywords=phantom+410

Processor: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-5820K-Haswell-E-Processor-BX80648I75820K/dp/B00MMLXIKY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428808155&sr=8-1&keywords=5820k

OS: Windows 7

Monitor: Dell UltraSharp U2414H 24-Inch Screen LED LCD Monitor
 
hdmi to hdmi is kinda flakily.. you may need full driver support , but you also need to have something to display to install the cards driver -- I just found that a dvi to hdmi cable works with all I got here with out issues, and all the hdmi to hdmi cables don't. I bought like 4 different cables and none worked out of the box ..
your just one of 100"s here at toms with this issue and few if any resolved sticking with the hdmi to hdmi .. [opinion]

you may try a custom search of threads on that and look at the solved one like on your issues ??

example
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/all.html?refine=hdmi+cable