Recent content by shawnk111

Ok finally got it... I striped the entire motherboard down to nothing and removed it from the tower. Removed battery, and let it sit for a few hours. Put back in case, connected power, 1 stick of ram i the blue slot furthest from the CPU. I connected to my monitor through VGA and I finally got...

ok that is the adapter I have, but no results... Also nothing beeps at startup. All fans kick on, but no beeps.... I removed everything again.. all un needed attachments. surround sound gone, the 7000 extra usb ports that were on here. the weird radio thing that was installed etc etc. All I have...

no he did not give me the adapter... I emailed him and he said he had it connected with a vga to dvi9 adapter.... I just got a dvi to vga and still no success... looking at the package it says DVI-A to VGA... would that matter is there a difference between DVI-9 and DVI-a? are they both even...

no I do not get bios or anything. Just black screen. the monitors or tv's just never activate like there is absolutely no signal anywhere.

I have aSharp TV, a Toshiba TV, and an HP monitor. Both tv's have multiple HDMI ports as well as one VGA port. The Monitor has one VGA and one HDMI. This is only my second time ever seeing DVI (The first time was on a big screen TV made in 2006), so I dont know anywhere where I could use a TV or...

also it seems like this guy was having an issue that sound just like what may have happened with mine... http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1627547/display-monitor-resetting-bios.html

ok... stripped it down again to bare minimum... reset cmos again... no gpu.. tried both VGA and HDMI and nothing. I rewired everything and tried again, nothing.. Hooked GPU back up and tried both slots, one with my DVI to HDMI cable, and one with a DVI to HDMI converter then an HDMI cable...

I will do this again just to be sure. What you say sounds correct. The 8800 has 2 dvi ports. The motherboard has vga and hdmi. I removed the GPU last night and tried the vga on the mobo, but still nothing. I removed the power cord and battery and tried again, nothing... I did not however have an...

thanks for reply... I have been checking all wiring and made sure everything was seated well... no response... I dont mind if I have to wipe completely clean and reinstall drivers and everything, I just want to be able to see y screen lol.. also there is like an integrated vga and hdmi port on...

unfortunately I do not own a regular HDMI cord lol.... I will buy one tomorrow though to try it... I read somewhere else online that it could require a dvi to vga adapter then just use vga cord to monitor. ??? I hope I can get it going.... I did remove the graphics card and try with just VGA...

Hello all... Thanks in advance for any replys I bought a new computer... or rather I bought a used computer from craigslist. He wanted $350 a month ago and I got it today for $200.... It is my first "Gamin" PC (I have never even had anything other than integrated graphics, so hopefully...