Hello folks,
I'm doing my first PC build and I'm kind of stuck. I thank anyone in advance for reading this thread and for any help you can provide. So, all the components are in the case. I press the power button on the case and I believe I can hear drives spinning up, the fans on my video card spin and the CPU fan (stock) is on as well. I can see no video on the monitor. I've attempted to connect to VGA and HDMI but no dice. The monitor is on and I can go back and forth between the inputs but nothing is ever displayed on the screen. Believing I was troubleshooting blind without a system speaker, I bought one and plugged it in. I hear no POST beeps. Maybe I hooked it up wrong, but I doubt it because it seems pretty clearly marked on the motherboard where it goes.
I've tried it without the video card inserted. I've tried it with just one RAM stick inserted and I've tried the RAM in different slots. I mentioned up above that maybe I hooked the system speaker up wrong. The thing that makes me most suspect that is I even tried turning it on with no RAM installed. I figured if anything would cause beeps, it would be that (forgive me if that was just silly) but that doesn't even cause beeps, everything just spins up. I've removed the CPU and the fan and confirmed they are inserted correctly.
As I said, this is my first build and maybe I've just missed something incredibly obvious or maybe I fried something with ESD or something.
Any ideas?
System specs:
MSI Z97 G45 Motherboard
SAPPHIRE 100362-3L Radeon R9 290
8 GB RAM (Crucial Ballistix Sport)
WD 1 TB HDD
Crucial BX100 120 GB SSD
LG Internal UH12NS30 BD-ROM Blu-ray Optical Drive
Intel Core i5-4430
Antec High Current Gamer HCG-620M, 80 PLUS BRONZE, 620 Watt Modular Power Supply
I'm doing my first PC build and I'm kind of stuck. I thank anyone in advance for reading this thread and for any help you can provide. So, all the components are in the case. I press the power button on the case and I believe I can hear drives spinning up, the fans on my video card spin and the CPU fan (stock) is on as well. I can see no video on the monitor. I've attempted to connect to VGA and HDMI but no dice. The monitor is on and I can go back and forth between the inputs but nothing is ever displayed on the screen. Believing I was troubleshooting blind without a system speaker, I bought one and plugged it in. I hear no POST beeps. Maybe I hooked it up wrong, but I doubt it because it seems pretty clearly marked on the motherboard where it goes.
I've tried it without the video card inserted. I've tried it with just one RAM stick inserted and I've tried the RAM in different slots. I mentioned up above that maybe I hooked the system speaker up wrong. The thing that makes me most suspect that is I even tried turning it on with no RAM installed. I figured if anything would cause beeps, it would be that (forgive me if that was just silly) but that doesn't even cause beeps, everything just spins up. I've removed the CPU and the fan and confirmed they are inserted correctly.
As I said, this is my first build and maybe I've just missed something incredibly obvious or maybe I fried something with ESD or something.
Any ideas?
System specs:
MSI Z97 G45 Motherboard
SAPPHIRE 100362-3L Radeon R9 290
8 GB RAM (Crucial Ballistix Sport)
WD 1 TB HDD
Crucial BX100 120 GB SSD
LG Internal UH12NS30 BD-ROM Blu-ray Optical Drive
Intel Core i5-4430
Antec High Current Gamer HCG-620M, 80 PLUS BRONZE, 620 Watt Modular Power Supply
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