'Puter with an Ouch!

[Scorpiоn]

I decided to see if I could get my system goin' today (technically yesterday) and was surprised with nothing!

I turned on the juice, and the CPU and Graphics fan started spinning, and the little blue LED fan was spinning, but nothing on the monitor!

All I've got pieced together is:

• ATX Case with 300watts
  • Asus K8V SE Deluxe
    • AMD Athlon 64 +3000
    • Nvidia Ti4200 64MB
    • Phillips Sound

I installed the CPU and fan/heatsink, mounted the motherboard on the case and connected the power to the Motherboard.

[Delta_]

The PSU sounds very weak for a system like that, is it also a generic one?  That may be your problem.

[Scorpiоn]

Dunno, came with the case, and whoops!  It was a 350watt.

Power Supply: 350W P4 and AMD ATX Ready, SATA Ready, UR, UL, FCC Approved.

MGE ECO L5 ATX

Maybe?

???

[Dan]

Try a post @ www.overclockers.co.uk if we can't sort it. Reseat your graphics card / monitor cables.
Dan

[Gixer]

Somtimes my monitor wont turn on if I have turned it on before my PC.

[Scorpiоn]

I have not attached a hard drive, permanantley, but I did hook it up for a little bit to see if that was the problem, however, no differing action.

I get no beeps and such, and I suspect the rig is not entering boot up at all.  The only action I get is the fans spooling and running (albeit they're nice and quiet), and that's it.

As an interesting bit o' info, the monitor, when activated, displays green as it's little LED color, but soon orange.  This leads me to believe there is not a fault within establishing a connection between the monitor and Motherboard, but rather no information is being sent.  When no signal is being recieved, the monitor will display the LED as green, and show a small message on the screen "No video signal".  Is there a special procedure I must follow to set up the BIOS for the first time?

[Gixer]

Yes this is what happens to me too. Sometimes I turn PC and monitor on then the monitor light just goes orange.  I hear PC load into windows but light wont go green.  

I have to turn pc off and monitor off.  Start PC wait till its made its first beep then turn monitor on.

Short of that I am unsure as to what your problem is.

[Meyekul]

Take everything off except for your processor, one stick of RAM and your video card.  When you power up, you should get a POST (power on self test) on screen.  If not, you have a problem somewhere in those 3 components or your motherboard itself.  If it works, start adding things one at a time until you get the problem again.  

You might want to have a peek at the motherboard manual and see if you need to adjust any settings (FSB, voltages, etc) and set the 'CMOS Clear/Default' jumper to make sure some weird setting isn't keeping your video from initializing.

[Scorpiоn]

Aha!  This is what I was looking for! I shall try that Meyekul!  Thanks!

[Scorpiоn]

I just had a thought.  I purchased two sticks of Corsair 512MB DDR 184-pin RAM, which was not tested and approved for use with the K8V SE.  Could this be it?

[Gixer]

It could be.  DDR ram is funny stuff and certain mobos like certain ram makes more than others.  Got any other DDR stuff you can whack in there to try? doesnt matter if its a lower FSB as it will just de-clock the rest to that FSB but least you will know if its the ram or not then.

[Rivers]

Stop looking everywhere when the Hi-D post gave you the correct answer, THE PROBLEM IS YOUR POWER SUPLY I

[Scorpiоn]

Ah, OK.  A new power supply I shall get!

It just seemed like Hi-D was guessing. I wasn't sure.

[Meyekul]

Here's a power supply wattage calculator, that should give you an idea if you need more power, but I wouldn't go buy a new one without trying a few other things first:  http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/

[congo]

It should boot with no peripherals and hard drive though. Even if it was a 250 watter you'd think. but hey, maybe your right...... expensive to test the theory though.

You only need CPU and single RAM stick for a POST...... it will beep a video error if its working........ ummm...... if you have the speaker hooked up right that is. Remove the souncard and everything for the post test.

But wait, are you sure you got the case wiring right, that would be my first check.

I didn't look it up, but some boards need a priority install with the RAM slots, just a possibilty, check the manual.