First, are all your fans running? Next, do you get any beeps? No fans means power supply did not start or has shut down do to possible overload. There is a sequence of events that occurs to bring the PC to life and, first, you need to find where it stops. Post back your findings.
tried my hand at building a new pc at home with asus a8v motherboard,western digital wd caviar 160 GB serial ATA hard drive, amd 64 processor, gforce fx5700le graphics, 512mb memory, but i get no signal on my monitor. what am i doing wrong? any help? Please! thanks

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