No video output new rebuild.

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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
 
Solution
i think i may have a problem for why nothings happening. i dont think your power supply is giving enough power to the gpu. although the power requirements said 500W for the card, there has to be enough power supplied to the pci-e cables to get to the card. for example, you cant run a card that requires 40 amps on the 12v rail with a psu that can only supply 32. because your psu isn't as high quality, i dont think it supplies very much power to the card that way. i'll look and see how much the card needs and your psu supplies