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no output to screen issue

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CleanSlate

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my computer in the sig is not outputting anything to the screen, and the motherboard is not giving a 3 or 4 beep dead gfx card error (which it's supposed to if the gfx card is dead). I need some suggestions here guys, I dont have a good gfx card to put in there and I'm already going to hook another monitor up to it so I beat u to those suggestions.

~Adam
 
Your M/B is most likely shorted out to the case.

You can try these steps:

Make sure the motherboard surface is not making contact with the metal case (except at its mounting points). Take the motherboard and power supply out of the case and place them on a non-conductive surface (wooden table, etc.). If it boots, something was probably shorting out in the case.


Make sure all of the cards, the CPU, and the RAM, are properly seated. Remove them and reinsert them to be sure.

Remove all non-essential components and disconnect non-essential cables (including IDE, floppy, etc.). All you should need to reach the initial boot screen (memory count, etc.) are: the motherboard, CPU, RAM, power supply, and graphics card. If it boots, start adding components one at a time, and boot up each time. When the system won't boot, you've found your faulty (or incorrectly installed or incompatible) component.


Check the power connector to the motherboard.
 
Is it booting, like is there hard drive activity? All the fans coming on? Some times on those ATi cards, the out put gets messed up like if you have it pluged into the DVI output, it gets confused and starts sending it to the VGA out and vise versa.
 
CleanSlate said:
my computer in the sig is not outputting anything to the screen, and the motherboard is not giving a 3 or 4 beep dead gfx card error (which it's supposed to if the gfx card is dead). I need some suggestions here guys, I dont have a good gfx card to put in there and I'm already going to hook another monitor up to it so I beat u to those suggestions.

~Adam
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So this was a working system and not one you just built and fired up for the first time?

It's thunderstorm season. My brother's shuttle box did something similar a while back. The powersupply didn't die completely but it wasn't putting out enough juice to keep everything running. Apparently there were a few brown-outs prior to the PS going belly-up. The mobo and case LED's were active but no video. Replacing the PS fixed it.
 
Yea I figured out my main monitor was bad, a backup was bad and that really sucks...

thanks for the posts guys, system works great still.

~Adam
 
i was gonna mention unplug the monitor and see if you get the "cable connected?" msg or whatever it is, too late though i just happened upon the thread, good to see you figured out what the problem was though
 
CleanSlate said:
Yea I figured out my main monitor was bad, a backup was bad and that really sucks...

thanks for the posts guys, system works great still.

~Adam
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Wow, two bad monitors. What are the odds? :cool:
 
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