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Building a new computer problems

by djkinvest Nov 17, 2005 11:02PM PST

I recently purchase the following components to build a new computer. They are: Antec Life Style sonata II case 450watt, Asus A8N-SLI Deluce Socket 939 motherbroad, AOpen GF6600GT-DV128 Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 Pci EXpress X16 Video Card, AMD Atholon 64 X2 3800+ 1 GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Porcessor, Corsair XMS 1 GB (2x512MB) 184-Pin DDR Sdram DDR 400 Unbuffered Dual, Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB harddrive. The DVD and CD rom I currently have. I haven't build one for about 6 yrs. The manuals are the worst for helping with installation but I finally got it put together. Now I have no video. Everything seems to be powering up fine. Does anyone have an idea where to start. I have try something and still no video.

Thanks

Dave

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Gfx card slot
by Olds Nov 18, 2005 12:01AM PST

Do you have the Graphics card in the Blue PCIE x16 slot?

If you have it plugged into the black one it will not work.

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Yes, I have it in the blue slot.
by djkinvest Nov 18, 2005 3:46AM PST

The instructions actually gave me that one. They aren't worth much on the rest as far as I can see.

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check everything
by nerdyboy1234 Nov 18, 2005 4:55AM PST

get rid of everything except cpu and ram on the mobo and start from there.

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Here are some link that may help. John
by jcrobso Nov 18, 2005 6:42AM PST
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