Tom's $1250 comp help

[rocketmanak]

Hello everyone,

This is my first computer I've put built myself so I decided to just go with Tom's $1250 computer. Ordered all the parts from New Egg. Assembled everything and went to power it on and nothing shows on the monitor. I get no beeps or anything when I hit the power button, though the fans do run (assume that is a good sign.) I got a IOMagic dvd burner due to the one Tom's recommended was out of stock and the light on the drive stays on continuosly. The Phase LED lights on the mother board light up with (starting from bottom to top of the vertical row) Green, Green, Yellow, Red. There are also the red lights on the video card (if you look at the card there are what looks like 5 possible lights on the lower right hand corner) and of those 5 the first 2 don't light up, and the other 3 are red.

I've taken this thing apart 3 times today and put back together thinking I messed up somewhere. I even compared Tom's pictures to my assembly. I'm stuck/lost and really could use some ideas. I wish my assembly went off without a hitch.

Please help if you can. I can get some video feed of what happens if that helps.

Thanks in advance,

Robert

 

[The Lady Slayer]

You shouldn't be putting the whole thing together and taking it apart.

The mate that built my last PC taught me that you should be powering on between parts so you know which one - if any - is creating the problem.

You should at least be able to boot into BIOS before installing the graphics card, so I'd probably take it out and see...

 

[thepinkpanther]

take out all but 1 stick of ram, if it still doesnt boot change the stick of ram. See if u stuck the 6 pin connector into the Video card.

 

[kubes]

Before you start taking everything apart again, I highly recommend you go through this checklist New build won't post checklist

If i was to first guess it'd be #2 on that checklist is your issue. Please report back with your results. (and if it doesn't still work after going through the checklist can you detail everything that you tried?)

 

[kubes]

@The lady slayer

I'm interested in knowing how you will know you've booted into your bios without having the graphics card installed? Do you mean if its a board that has onboard graphics, don't worry about the graphics card yet? Hearing the post beeps is not meaning you're in your bios.

 

[shortstuff_mt]

+1 to going through the checklist. It also seems that you don't have the power connectors plugged into the GPU correctly. The red lights on the GPU mean it isn't getting enough power.

 

[rocketmanak]

Just want to say thanks for the link. It was #2 on the checklist. I feel dumb. Oh well that's why I don't have a job putting together computers.

Thanks for the help everyone

 

[kubes]

No no, believe me that's a really a common mistake. I actually believe that entire thread that I linked for you was started because of this mistake. Or at least the inspiration of it. Just glad we were able to help you solve your problem