Monitor not receiving any connection

[Sid2125]

It's probably some dumb little mistake but I cannot get the monitor to connect to the pc. This is my first build and I finally got everything put in and was going to see if I could pull up the bios. I took a hdmi cable and put it into the graphics card and he monitor. No signal. A dvi to hdmi. No signal. Vga cable. No signal. I then took all of them and tried them in the motherboard still no signal. What could I be doing wrong. I have a Asus VN247, msi z97 gaming 5, and GeForce GTX 970.

Thank you for any help provided.

 

[Rabmac]

Some monitors have driver problems and don't recognise HDMI or there are issues with the picture. For monitors I have found it best to use a DVI cable. If you are using a DVI cable and you still have problems then it is probably related to your monitor or GPU drivers. I would go to manufacturers website and download the most up to date driver.

If you are using Windows 10, there may not be working drivers yet.

 

[mrmotion]

I have had this happen also and just found an old lcd to get it up and running and then once its running connect your main one and install drivers and update etc...

 

[boju]

Only thing monitor related that could have been is if the monitor itself had an analogue and digital toggle button to switch between inputs, that got me once ;P

I suspect something else is going on possibly with the cpu, gpu, motherboard, memory or psu.

Does the pc turn on? any lights etc?

Try these steps here in case you've missed something: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

 

[Sid2125]

The pc turns on. The fans run and lights go on.

 

[boju]

List your specs please.

Go through the link, see if you've missed anything.

If you have more than one memory stick, try one at a time in the correct dimm slot as referred in the manual.

 

[boju]

I saw your brief specs above in your op i mean list everything including memory and psu.

You do have your monitor cable connected to the gpu right 😉?

 

[Sid2125]

I have it connected to the gpu. I didn't put in the system speaker before. I installed it and got three long beeps, a keyboard error.

My specs
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qfwFQ7

 

[Sid2125]

Thank you. It was the RAM. There was two and they were not installed properly.

 

[boju]

That board uses the Award bios and 3 long beeps means memory problems. Dual channel uses Dimms 2 & 4 black slots.

If no change, try clearing cmos. Watch sized battery on the motherboard, simply remove that for a good 5 or more seconds (while pc is turned off) will default the bios. It may help.

 

[boju]

Ohh fair enough haha there you go