No video output new rebuild.

[A_C]

Hello everyone, and thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to help me.

I had a prebuilt PC that I wanted to upgrade. After upgrading my RAM and installing a new video card, nVidia GTX 560ti, I used it for about a year, until I recently decided to get a new case, a better power supply, and add a SSD. After removing everything from the old case and installing in the new case and powering on, the case fans and video card fans spin up and all case lights come on, but there is no video output. The case has no speaker so I can't hear beeps from booting with no RAM, etc. I have tried booting with only the video card, HDD and one stick of RAM installed, and nearly everything on this list: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems
but nothing is working.

I've been reading and researching for solutions for over a week to no avail. please let me know if there's anything that may help. Links to all components are listed below. Thanks again!

Original PC: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documentSubCategory?tmp_rule=78893&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=3983060

Video Card: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3707#ov

Motherboard: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01901210

Power supply: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7850412&sku=U12-42505

Case: https://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/109-guardian-921-rb-case

 

[A_C]

I installed the old PSU that worked fine for over a year and got the same result.

 

[jshoop]

i dont think the old psu would be able to power the card anyway. if it came with a prebuilt computer, its not gonna be very good. its gonna be just enough to keep the computer running

 

[jshoop]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/344163-33-amps

from this thread it says 38 amps, which is a different model from your card so say around 35 or so amps. your psu supplies at most 30 amps, which wouldnt be enough

 

[A_C]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/344163-33-amps

from this thread it says 38 amps, which is a different model from your card so say around 35 or so amps. your psu supplies at most 30 amps, which wouldnt be enough

Would this psu be a better choice?
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=125449&CatId=5431

 

[jshoop]

thats a great psu, xfx is one of the best. its 80+ bronze too. id suggest something semi modular though, i'll look around. do you prefer that website? or would any website be fine

 

[A_C]

thats a great psu, xfx is one of the best. its 80+ bronze too. id suggest something semi modular though, i'll look around. do you prefer that website? or would any website be fine

I prefer that site, they have a store near me I can get to easily

 

[jshoop]

http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/323050.aspx

here, the psu is in the 2nd tier, which is really good. although it isnt modular, you can hide cables and lay them flat on the bottom of your case. that should hopefully solve the problem, thats the only thing i think is left that can be wrong with it

 

[A_C]

http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/323050.aspx

here, the psu is in the 2nd tier, which is really good. although it isnt modular, you can hide cables and lay them flat on the bottom of your case. that should hopefully solve the problem, thats the only thing i think is left that can be wrong with it

Alright, Thanks again for your help! I'll go pick it up soon and update here on my progress.

 

[A_C]

I upgraded to the Corsair CX600M modular psu, tier 3 on that list, and still no output.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7564403

 

[jshoop]

thats a better psu, used in many budget builds, and should be giving enough power to the card. atleast now you dont have to worry about your psu frying everything. i don't know what else could be wrong. everything was working before switching cases. have you tried breadboarding it? if not, its pretty much taking everything apart and putting it together part by part, testing to see where it fails. i think youd need a case speaker though, which you said you didnt have. maybe something died when you touched it, did you make sure you had no static charge by touching something metal before touching the components?

 

[A_C]

I picked up a case speaker, 4 pin connection with black and yellow wires. Where on the motherboard do I connect it?

motherboard here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01901210#N248

 

[jshoop]

i couldnt really find it, but look along the edges of the motherboard for 4 pins in 1 line sticking up, labled speaker or something. it looks like its near the bottom right sata connectors

 

[A_C]

i couldnt really find it, but look along the edges of the motherboard for 4 pins in 1 line sticking up, labled speaker or something. it looks like its near the bottom right sata connectors

this is the only "Speaker" label I can see, and there isn't a place to connect it

 

[jshoop]

is there a spot on your front panel connectors, where your power button and led are? thats very wierd, almost all motherboards have built in speaker or connectors for it

 

[Jason H.]

I had a similar problem.. are you running analog, dvi, or hdmi?

 

[A_C]

is there a spot on your front panel connectors, where your power button and led are? thats very wierd, almost all motherboards have built in speaker or connectors for it

this is my front panel layout.. no available space

 

[A_C]

I had a similar problem.. are you running analog, dvi, or hdmi?

Video card has DVI output, tried with DVI monitor, and also with converter to hdmi on an hdmi monitor, no output on both

 

[Jason H.]

is there a spot on your front panel connectors, where your power button and led are? thats very wierd, almost all motherboards have built in speaker or connectors for it

this is my front panel layout.. no available space

if you are running dvi or hdmi, your screen could possibly have switched from "Auto Detect" to just analog.. this happened to me, I bought a computer plugged it in and nothing came on.. I spent 2 hours trying to figure it out and it was allbecause my monitor wasnt detecting my DVI.. so I had to go into the menu and change it to auto detect... turn off your computer completely, unplug monitor.. plug monitor back in... power on PC.. then power on monitor.. see if this works

 

[A_C]

is there a spot on your front panel connectors, where your power button and led are? thats very wierd, almost all motherboards have built in speaker or connectors for it

this is my front panel layout.. no available space

if you are running dvi or hdmi, your screen could possibly have switched from "Auto Detect" to just analog.. this happened to me, I bought a computer plugged it in and nothing came on.. I spent 2 hours trying to figure it out and it was allbecause my monitor wasnt detecting my DVI.. so I had to go into the menu and change it to auto detect... turn off your computer completely, unplug monitor.. plug monitor back in... power on PC.. then power on monitor.. see if this works

both monitors that I am using are on auto-detect, still no output

 

[Jason H.]

is there a spot on your front panel connectors, where your power button and led are? thats very wierd, almost all motherboards have built in speaker or connectors for it

this is my front panel layout.. no available space

if you are running dvi or hdmi, your screen could possibly have switched from "Auto Detect" to just analog.. this happened to me, I bought a computer plugged it in and nothing came on.. I spent 2 hours trying to figure it out and it was allbecause my monitor wasnt detecting my DVI.. so I had to go into the menu and change it to auto detect... turn off your computer completely, unplug monitor.. plug monitor back in... power on PC.. then power on monitor.. see if this works

both monitors that I am using are on auto-detect, still no output

did u try the unplugging thing I told u to do? turn everything off unplug monitor then plug it back in turn computer on 1st, then turn monitor on?

 

[A_C]

yes everything has been unplugged and plugged back in multiple times.

 

[Jason H.]

yes everything has been unplugged and plugged back in multiple times.

BUT... did you turn on the computer... THEN turn on the screen after starting from a fresh restart.....? (meaning everything powered completely off) the steps matter

1. Turn off computer
2. Unplug monitor
3. PLug everything back in
4. Turn on PC
5. Turn on monitor

 

[A_C]

yes.

 

[Jason H.]

yes.

well its hard to figure this out without intergrated graphics to test the monitors on.. does your monitor just stay in standby when the computer is turned on?

 

[A_C]

UPDATE: Still haven't solved the issue. I've ruled out it isn't the graphics card, tested another card and same results.