PC problems

SkutSkut

OK so my parts arrived today and I've got everything installed but DVD drives turn on but won't open and the monitor is hooked into the right part of the video card and that's on since the fan is going, but no video signal, what's going on with my comp?

DeadlySherpa

Did you the drivers?

SkutSkut

Did I what the drivers?

Satsumomo

Looks like your computer isn't powering up completely if the DVD drives don't open up. What are your parts?

SkutSkut

The parts

Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Retail

Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

MSI P43 Neo3-F LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

G.SKILL PI Black 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

GIGABYTE GV-R467D3-512I Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

I'm guessing the same is true for the video card if it's powering up but not working with the monitor, and I know the dvd drive is getting power because the LED comes on, but like you said it's probably not getting enough, I have it on a seperate cord from the psu but that doesn't help any either.

The power and hdd LEDs don't light up either and they're plugged in I could take those off the mobo, I wouldn't miss em if that'll help.

Djeet

What happens when you power on the computer? Do you get beeps?

Try to get the computer to POST with video output with just the power supply, cpu, RAM, and video plugged in. Once you can get to that point you can add your dvd and hard drive.

SkutSkut

Djeet wrote: »

What happens when you power on the computer? Do you get beeps?

Try to get the computer to POST with video output with just the power supply, cpu, RAM, and video plugged in. Once you can get to that point you can add your dvd and hard drive.

No beeps, everything runs fine, just those 2 problems. I will try that though thanks.

I was seriously getting mad at it last night. Not having one for four+ months and frustration, not a good combo.

With that just plugged in the monitor still does the whole

Self Test

Check PC and Signal Cables

Monitor is working

which is what it does when it's not plugged into the card.

Djeet

When testing it with just CPU, RAM, Power and Video, I'd make sure to reseat the video card in the socket. Which video connector are you using? I'd probably try the 15 pin VGA connection method first. Check the cable along the length and at the connection pins to make sure it's not damaged.

SkutSkut

Djeet wrote: »

When testing it with just CPU, RAM, Power and Video, I'd make sure to reseat the video card in the socket. Which video connector are you using? I'd probably try the 15 pin VGA connection method first. Check the cable along the length and at the connection pins to make sure it's not damaged.

it's a 15 pin vga, worked with my last PC but there are some pins damaged, which were when it was working with the other, I'll try reseating though, I guess if worse comes to worse I'll just get my grand dad to put it together.

Reseating didn't help any.

stigweard

Unplug your dvd drives. It sounds like the cabling is wrong. If you have two set to master or two set to slave on the same cable, it won't post.

SkutSkut

stigweard wrote: »

Unplug your dvd drives. It sounds like the cabling is wrong. If you have two set to master or two set to slave on the same cable, it won't post.

Only one drive, I just put the other in to test that the drive itself wasn't the problem. Did the same with another monitor, which also didn't reach post, either with just the PSU, ram, CPU and vid card, and with everything hooked up.

TychoCelchuuu

Since your computer is not POSTing, the mobo might be DOA. Do you have any other CPUs that you can test in the mobo, or even another computer you can test the mobo in?

SkutSkut

My mobo was fine I just ah, didn't have the processor plugged into the power supply.

Compy works fine now though, but now my internet's being moody, have a wireless-G WRT54G router and the network adapter but no internet in my room after installing everything, running Vista 64 bit, and what do I turn off to get those "are you sure you want to run blah blah blah" popups to go away?

TychoCelchuuu

The processor does not plug into the power supply but if it's working I guess I'm not going to argue very much. The "are you sure you want to" stuff is the User Agent Controls; this site might help if you want to nuke from orbit.

nlawalker

SkutSkut wrote: »

Did I what the drivers?

Did you accidentally the drivers?