New to building

[trillin]

I have recently been gifted most of an older gaming pc from my uncle, i have an asus B85M-E motherboard, Gigabyte Gv-N166SOC-6GD GeForce GTX 1660 Super, and a 750w PSU. 

 

I have everything connected and it turns on and stays on but i am not getting any display to pull up the BiOS, any suggestions? I am using a DP to VGA adaptor for now and have tried hdmi as well. I also tried ports on both gpu and motherboard.

 

I am trying to get myself going for as cheap as possible, any help is greatly appreciated

[Middcore]

What CPU is under there?

 

Were all these parts verified working when you got them?

[jaslion]

Time to check if you connected the psu cables correctly on both ends first.

 

Might also wanna remove the cmos battery from the board and seat it back to make sure the exisiting bios settings are wiped.

 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

This does not inspire confidence. Those daisy chained cables tend to be PCIe, and having a PCIe cable plugged into the CPU 8 pin will likely fry something. That said, it does look like a 4 pin is hooked up, so that might be fine. If that's what it is though (daisy chained 8 pin EPS), I would be very shocked. 

 

After that, time to try a single RAM stick in each slot to see if one or more sticks is DOA. 

[trillin]

4 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Time to check if you connected the psu cables correctly on both ends first.

 

Might also wanna remove the cmos battery from the board and seat it back to make sure the exisiting bios settings are wiped.

 

 

The PSU cables seem ok bc that wasnt woking before and its powering on and running now, i will certainly try the battery

[trillin]

3 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

This does not inspire confidence. Those daisy chained cables tend to be PCIe, and having a PCIe cable plugged into the CPU 8 pin will likely fry something. That said, it does look like a 4 pin is hooked up, so that might be fine. If that's what it is though (daisy chained 8 pin), I would be very shocked. 

 

After that, time to try a single RAM stick in each slot to see if one or more sticks is DOA. 

That cable is a split 8pin with another farther down. The 4 pin there had to be connected before it would turn on and run, unfortunately that cable was all i had that had the proper input , i will look for another cable to try and give the ram a shot

[trillin]

10 minutes ago, Middcore said:

What CPU is under there?

 

Were all these parts verified working when you got them?

To my knowledge its all working and it should be an i7, 8th gen cpu in there

[trillin]

26 minutes ago, trillin said:

That cable is a split 8pin with another farther down. The 4 pin there had to be connected before it would turn on and run, unfortunately that cable was all i had that had the proper input , i will look for another cable to try and give the ram a shot

Was able to find a nicer smaller cable and swapped it and it still comes on but not showing any display

[trillin]

4 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

This does not inspire confidence. Those daisy chained cables tend to be PCIe, and having a PCIe cable plugged into the CPU 8 pin will likely fry something. That said, it does look like a 4 pin is hooked up, so that might be fine. If that's what it is though (daisy chained 8 pin EPS), I would be very shocked. 

 

After that, time to try a single RAM stick in each slot to see if one or more sticks is DOA. 

It was the RAM there was 1 card that was off just a bit, thank you