HelgaTheS80 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I am pulling my hair out right now.Embarassingly, I am a salesman at a local custom computer store. I've been working there for about 3 months now and in that time I've peace-mealed together a custom built gaming PC I put together using my employee discounts . Anyways, today I just got done building it and I'm like jumping up and down in excitement!!!!Again, I deal with computing issues all day, however this is the first time I've ever set up a computer of my own. I've been tinkering around with them since I was 4, but I've never done one from scratch....but now it's the weekend and I'm off for the next 2 days so I have none of my coworkers to ask for help. So I'm throwing out a wild card and asking here.On my system, I have an MSI P965 Neo-F Motherboard, which is hooked up to an eVGA nVidia 8600 GT (standard model) to the PCI Express slot. Now, because this system is starting out with no prior info except for the BIOS..I am trying to set it up for the first time.This is my issue, everything powers on and everything is running perfect. However, this motherboard has no onboard video port. Normally, this would be a simple thing because I'd just hookup into the onboard video for initial setup...but because there is none I have to hook up into the video card.However, the motherboard I guess is not seeing that the video card is my main source for video output. Therefore when I power on I have no video feed going to my flippin' monitor!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unless I can figure out how to get my video feed going to the card, I'm going to have to throw in the towel, wave the white flag and ask my coworkers on Tuesday.I know this is a really simple thing, but I've got my Operating System disk ready to go and I wanna play games on my system I've been putting together and I'm like...so impatiently anxious to get it going tonight!!!!!!!!!!Any ideas appreciated!!!! Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T5BRICK Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 BIOS reset? Do you have a PCI video card that you're able to test with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 check whether you have dual output card or notcheck if your card is getting enough powertry holding CTRL when booting up (apparently resets graphic settings)do a BIOS clear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T5BRICK Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I don't think the 8600 cards require the PCI-E power drop, do they?Holding down the "Insert" key when booting would reset the BIOS on my old MSI board. I don't know if this still works though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyROTech Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 yer card should run regardless (just not good settings) for you to set the bios settings. Something is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
550 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Nah nothing has to be wrong.I would say before you start thinking things are messed up pop a PCI card in there and try that.I work with hardware allll day, and this is not that uncommon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aequitas_Veritas Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 make sure all the connectors on the MB and video card have power. When I built my rig with PCI express i had a similer problem where my card was not getting enough power to run because there was a molex connector next to the video card on the MB that was not connected. There was also a plug on the side of the video card itself. How big is your power supply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelgaTheS80 Posted July 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I'm running a Raidmax 530 Watt power supply inside an Apevia X Gear case. The case came originally with a 430 watt one but I ditched that pretty quick for the one I have now. It's REALLY pretty. Has a 120 MM fan that glows a blue LED right onto the CPU for better cooling.And oddly enough, this PCI Express card doesn't have a power plug on it. Mabye it has enough power on the Mobo itself????But there is no grinding, electrical shorts. The system fans turn on (I have like 6 to 8 aftermarket ones in there....sounds like a jet going off). All the LEDS and fans come on like they should, there are no complaining beeps coming from the MoBo at all. Yet there is absolutely no video feed. The only concern I'm having is that after I press the power switch on the case, it takes anywhere from 3 to 5 seconds afterwards to power on. Most computers I've had when you hit the power, it's instantaneous.Just as a reference, here are my specs: I know I threw some of these out there, but here they are again to be more specific1.) Apevia X Gear Case2.) MSI P965 Neo-F Mobo3.) 320 GB SATA Drive 7,200 RPM4.) AOpen DVD-RW 18X5.)AOpen DVD-ROM6.) eVGA nVidia 8600 GT Dual DVI DX10 ready video card. Standard non-overclocked model7.) 1024 times 2 Supertalent PC533 Dual Channel RAM. I have both in the 1st and 3rd slots because again they are dual channel.8.) Card reader9.) Artic Cooling Socket 775 aftermarket heatsink & MASSIVE cooler10.) Hard drive cooler twin fans11.) Raidmax 530watt LED 120 MM fan power supply12.) Intel socket 775 CPU Core 2 DUO 632013.) Linksys wireless network cardHope that helps. Mabye for more of those who are heavy into the hardware aspect of pc's, mabye that might give you an idea so you can troubleshoot.Peace! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Che'_Moderator Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 And oddly enough, this PCI Express card doesn't have a power plug on it. Mabye it has enough power on the Mobo itself????No sure what card you have but every PCIX 8600 card I have seen has a 6 pin power connector. It has to for the memory. If it was a retail box you should have a 6pin to molex cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aequitas_Veritas Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 No sure what card you have but every PCIX 8600 card I have seen has a 6 pin power connector. It has to for the memory. If it was a retail box you should have a 6pin to molex cable.he says what card he has. Its the eVGA nVidia 8600 GT, heres a pic, I guess it dosnt have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T5BRICK Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 First things first, remove everything that isn't necessary to get into the BIOS. Case, motherboard, CPU, HSF, RAM and video card. See if it boots up. I'm guessing you've got a defective part or something is grounding out.No sure what card you have but every PCIX 8600 card I have seen has a 6 pin power connector. It has to for the memory. If it was a retail box you should have a 6pin to molex cable.I'm sure you know this, but PCIX is not PCI Express, it's PCIX. Just figured i'd throw that one out there to avoid any confusion. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelgaTheS80 Posted July 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Well just as an update I got the kinks figured out and eneded up realizing I put two power connectors for the same fan into the mother board, giving it 12 volts . Apparently, I didn't damage the board but it could have. Tonight I loaded Vista home premium on it and it's running now.Still not out of the woods yet. Now I've got a whole networking mess to untangle now. More on that later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyROTech Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 yer card should run regardless (just not good settings) for you to set the bios settings. Something is wrong.Nah nothing has to be wrong.I would say before you start thinking things are messed up pop a PCI card in there and try that.I work with hardware allll day, and this is not that uncommon.Well just as an update I got the kinks figured out and eneded up realizing I put two power connectors for the same fan into the mother board, giving it 12 volts . Apparently, I didn't damage the board but it could have. Tonight I loaded Vista home premium on it and it's running now.Still not out of the woods yet. Now I've got a whole networking mess to untangle now. More on that later. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7 VII 7 Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 lol, how do you do that? and a PCI-x not requiring a 6pin power source :? weirdwhen I was setting up my SLI and had a problem with it showing video... the cards were not stuck in all the way... I have had a problem with the PCI-x slots recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T5BRICK Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 lol, how do you do that? and a PCI-x not requiring a 6pin power source :? weirdMy PCI-E 7600GT didn't require the 6 pin connector from the power supply.when I was setting up my SLI and had a problem with it showing video... the cards were not stuck in all the way... I have had a problem with the PCI-x slots recentlyAgain, PCI-X is NOT the same as PCI-E.I work with customers all day long that can never get it right, they order a computer and can't plug their SCSI card in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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