So I'll provide the components of my build first:
So here's the thing: I have an AOC E2270SWN used monitor from my older brother, and it uses a VGA port. Since I don't have a graphics card I opt to plug the cable to the mobo. Unfortunately, the mobo I have does not have a VGA port (I know I should have thought of that before building it myself, this is my first time building a PC so mistakes are unavoidable). So I bought an HDMI to VGA converter. I do know that it has to be an ACTIVE converter to be able to work, but the seller said nothing about it being active or not. And my worst fear came when I connected to the motherboard but the monitor said "no signal".
I started investigating the motherboard, making sure that the mobo is receiving power (which it is because I can see the CPU fan is spinning and the LED fans are lit up), the CPU power cable is plugged in all the way, the SSD is carefully inserted, the RAM sticks are all in. It didn't take a long time because the mobo I have has a thing called "EZ Debug LED" which it will light up if any components are not recognized. For example, if the RAM is not all the way in, it is not recognized and the RAM LED section will light up red.
So it's not really the motherboard's fault I assume. I started to doubt the converter itself, so I tested it using a laptop. The old laptop my dad has has a HDMI port, so I tried to plug the VGA cable to the converter, and then plug the converter into the laptop. And guess what, the monitor worked just fine as a second screen. So I guess it's neither the converter nor the monitor's fault.
So what am I gotta do now? The monitor keep saying no signal and I'm quite desperate rn. Please help
- AMD Ryzen 3 3200g (with included CPU cooler)
- MSI B450M Gaming Plus
- Adata XPG SX6000 Lite MVMe SSD
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16gb (2*8) 2666mhz (planning to OC it to around 2933mhz)
- Seasonic 12II 520w (or someting like that I can't remember the full name)
- TP-Link WN881D Wi-fi Card
- No Graphics Card because I don't need it, I don't do heavy gaming, I plan to use the iGPU in the Ryzen 3200g which should be enough. Also I'm on a pretty tight budget so yeah
So here's the thing: I have an AOC E2270SWN used monitor from my older brother, and it uses a VGA port. Since I don't have a graphics card I opt to plug the cable to the mobo. Unfortunately, the mobo I have does not have a VGA port (I know I should have thought of that before building it myself, this is my first time building a PC so mistakes are unavoidable). So I bought an HDMI to VGA converter. I do know that it has to be an ACTIVE converter to be able to work, but the seller said nothing about it being active or not. And my worst fear came when I connected to the motherboard but the monitor said "no signal".
I started investigating the motherboard, making sure that the mobo is receiving power (which it is because I can see the CPU fan is spinning and the LED fans are lit up), the CPU power cable is plugged in all the way, the SSD is carefully inserted, the RAM sticks are all in. It didn't take a long time because the mobo I have has a thing called "EZ Debug LED" which it will light up if any components are not recognized. For example, if the RAM is not all the way in, it is not recognized and the RAM LED section will light up red.
So it's not really the motherboard's fault I assume. I started to doubt the converter itself, so I tested it using a laptop. The old laptop my dad has has a HDMI port, so I tried to plug the VGA cable to the converter, and then plug the converter into the laptop. And guess what, the monitor worked just fine as a second screen. So I guess it's neither the converter nor the monitor's fault.
So what am I gotta do now? The monitor keep saying no signal and I'm quite desperate rn. Please help
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