New Build - Monitor Not Recognizing Video

[Robert Owen]

First of all I'd like to thank you all for being such a helpful community. I've been troubleshooting my first build over the past couple of days and this site has been an indispensable resource.

Now, to get to my current predicament. I got all components into the case and plugged in, but when I boot up the computer my monitor will not recognize any video (through either VGA or HDMI).

I breadboarded this build last night and successfully got to boot screen, but now that I have the build in the case it is not working.

I have reset the CMOS and let the battery sit out for 30 minutes or so.

The RAM light confirms that the RAM set-up is fine.

All fans fire up, hard drive spins, optical drive functional.

Like I said, last night I was able to successfully fire this beast up outside of the case, so I'm not sure what the issue would be. I'm thinking it must be shorted somewhere on the board...But I've got both sides of the case off right now and have cleared the case of any spare screws, so I'm at a loss.

Would appreciate any help or suggestions - thank you.

Also just as a note, I haven't screwed with the CPU or CPU fan/heatsink since successfully firing it up last night, so I'm really hoping/believe that's not an issue.

Thank you!
Rob

 

[smorizio]

Pull your gpu and see if the system will post. On some builds you may need a bios update or change the bios from ipgpu to peg to boot from a gpu.
Check that you plugged in the eight pin or four pin CPU power connector. Check to see if the mb io shield is shorting the USB or bottom of the mb.

 

[Robert Owen]

Pull your gpu and see if the system will post. On some builds you may need a bios update or change the bios from ipgpu to peg to boot from a gpu.
Check that you plugged in the eight pin or four pin CPU power connector. Check to see if the mb io shield is shorting the USB or bottom of the mb.

No GPU.

Pulled I/O shield, didn't fix it.

Definitely had 8 pin connected.

Took it apart to try and breadboard again, now can't even get BIOS there.

This is horribly frustrating.

Is there any chance the battery could be causing this? Will probably try to replace that in the morning...

 

[Robert Owen]

Think it must've been a motherboard issue.

Picked up an MB speaker this morning and got one long, three short.

Typically that means a graphics issue ("NO VGA" per my MB manual) - however, I was running on-board graphics so it was either a MB or CPU issue.

Tech at MC recommended just switching them both out, so that's what I did.

Looks to be all good now.