Display Issues With Gigabyte Motherboard-Please Help!

W

weezer006

Hello, I am having a pretty frustrating issue with a new Gigabyte
motherboard. I built an entire system on NewEgg, as specified below.
For some reason, cannot figure out why absolutely NOTHING will display
on the screen, despite fresh, brand new parts and OEM stuff. Pretty
high quality parts, but, sucks when you can't take advantage of them
due to no display!

Just as a run down, we have attempted to flash the bios/CMOS reset, and
are quite positive the display (monitors) are working we are trying to
use.

No beeps come from the system.

Please, please help! Am anxious to use my new machine!

-andrew

Antec SUPER LANBOY Silver anodized aluminum ATX Mini Tower Computer
Case - Retail
Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
- Retail
MSI NX7600GS-T2D256E Geforce 7600GS 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video
Card - Retail
ENERMAX Liberty ELT400AWT ATX12V 400W Power Supply - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2000MHz HT Socket AM2 Dual Core
Processor Model ADA3800IAA5CU - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
- OEM
 
M

Mike T.

Hello, I am having a pretty frustrating issue with a new Gigabyte
motherboard. I built an entire system on NewEgg, as specified below.
For some reason, cannot figure out why absolutely NOTHING will display
on the screen, despite fresh, brand new parts and OEM stuff. Pretty
high quality parts, but, sucks when you can't take advantage of them
due to no display!

Just as a run down, we have attempted to flash the bios/CMOS reset, and
are quite positive the display (monitors) are working we are trying to
use.

No beeps come from the system.

Please, please help! Am anxious to use my new machine!

-andrew

Antec SUPER LANBOY Silver anodized aluminum ATX Mini Tower Computer
Case - Retail
Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
- Retail
MSI NX7600GS-T2D256E Geforce 7600GS 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video
Card - Retail
ENERMAX Liberty ELT400AWT ATX12V 400W Power Supply - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2000MHz HT Socket AM2 Dual Core
Processor Model ADA3800IAA5CU - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
- OEM

No beeps at all would indicate bad mainboard, or mainboard isn't seeing good
power (power supply, power connections). But have you tried removing all
RAM and booting that way? There's an outside chance it could be
incompatible RAM. -Dave
 
S

SteveH

Mike T. said:
No beeps at all would indicate bad mainboard, or mainboard isn't seeing
good power (power supply, power connections).

Or even a bad CPU. One I fixes a couple of weeks back had no beeps and it
turned out the CPU was dead.

SteveH
 
J

johns

Go look at your power connector. That extra 4 pin socket
has to be hooked up on the mobo, or nothing will happen.
I think you have to split it off from the main connector.

johns
 
M

Mike T.

johns said:
Also, that 400 watt psupply is a little weak.

johns

Normally I'd agree, but I think I read that it was an enermax liberty, so it
should be fine. -Dave
 
B

Ben Dover

Your mobo requires both the 20 pin and 4 pin connectors to be attached in
the appropriate places. If you don't have a separate 4 pin connector with
that Enermax, it should separate from the 24 pin one. A 400 watt Enermax
should be more than enough for what you are running in your box.
Also, is your PCI-E card connected to the PSU? There should be a plug for
that, too.

The most common cause of a new board not booting is the absense of the 4
pin connector, though. Check that and you should be good to go. It should
be someplace next to the CPU - not adjacent to the 20 pin power
connector.
 
R

Rod Speed

Your mobo requires both the 20 pin and 4 pin
connectors to be attached in the appropriate places.

It actually takes a 24 pin ATX connector.
If you don't have a separate 4 pin connector with
that Enermax, it should separate from the 24 pin one.

Utterly mangled, the extra 4 pin connector you can break off the 24 pin
connector is NOTHING like the separate 4 pin ATX_12V connector pin use
wise and will **** motherboard if you are stupid enough to force it into there.
A 400 watt Enermax should be more than enough for what you are
running in your box.
Also, is your PCI-E card connected to the PSU? There should be a plug
for that, too.
The most common cause of a new board not booting is the absense of
the 4 pin connector, though. Check that and you should be good to go.
It should be someplace next to the CPU - not adjacent to the 20 pin
power connector.

There is no 20 pin connector on that motherboard, its got a 24 pin
connector instead. And the 4 pin ATX_12V connector too. Which
the manual says is necessary as well as the 24 pin connector.
 

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