No Post/ No Display

[EpicNoobZ456]

I built my first computer and after I connected everything and powered it up. The fans were spinning and everything was going "well" but my monitor says no signal. Please Help!

 

Parts:

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860k

GPU: XFX Radeon R9 270x

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8gb (2x4gb)

Motherboard: MSI A88xm-e35

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 Tb

PSU: EVGA 500w 80 plus

Case: NZXT Source 210 

 

All the Parts also seem to be compatible so I don't know what's wrong.

[ZacDaMan72]

What did you plug your monitor onto, the GPU or the motherboard?

[EpicNoobZ456]

I plugged the monitor into the gpu

[Hangfire]

try it in the motherboard and see if it will work

[EpicNoobZ456]

Nope still nothing

[Hangfire]

Might start with this post and then go from there, outlines a lot of steps to work through

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/42440-readme-how-to-respond-to-a-no-post-or-no-power-up-situation/

[EpicNoobZ456]

Nope still nothing. Would it be the motherboard's problem. Maybe it's defective?

[Hangfire]

do you have both a 20 pin and 4 pin power connector plugged into the board?

[EpicNoobZ456]

i have a 24 pin power plugged in to the mb. Also, i don't know if this is related but the power connector can't seem to be plugged all the way in. Here's a picture.

[Hangfire]

Well i couldnt figure out how to put an attachement from my pc on here to show a picture but there is another 4 pin power connector labelled JPWR2 over near the ethernet port on the board that may also need to be connected to power

[EpicNoobZ456]

Anybody know what to do?

[EpicNoobZ456]

It's already plugged in but there is still no response

[Hangfire]

Make sure your monitor cable is plugged in well in both ends, plug it into the motherboard. Remove the video card, unplug any hard drives, ssd's etc from the motherboard, and remove all but one memory stick, in the first memory slot. Remove the cmos battery for a minute or two, put it back and try to boot

[EpicNoobZ456]

I'll try it first thing tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestions

[dragoon20005]

hate to say this but the 860K CPU is a brand new CPU

 

and previous batch of A88X mobos only support the A10-7850K

 

your mobo need a BIOS update to accept the 860K

 

go back to the PC store and grab a cheap APU to boot the mobo to BIOS and then perform a BIOS update

 

http://www.msi.com/support/mb/A88XM-E35.html#down-bios

[Bosspro1]

Have you ever seen anything displayed by this system? (ex-Bios,small message that says no sata data) B)

[EpicNoobZ456]

No display what so ever. So I need a new cpu for the bios update?

[dragoon20005]

No display what so ever. So I need a new cpu for the bios update?

just bring back to the PC store where you bought it

 

ask the sales person there to borrow a APU

 

provide them the latest BIOS file extracted in a thumb drive so that they can update the BIOS for you

[EpicNoobZ456]

Sadly I can't do that since I bought the cpu from an online retailer.

[asim1999]

Have u connected the PCI cables to the graphics card and connected the CPU power to the motherboard and connected SATA data and power to the drives and mobo? this issue happened to me and it was due to these not being plugged in correctly

[EpicNoobZ456]

Have u connected the PCI cables to the graphics card and connected the CPU power to the motherboard and connected SATA data and power to the drives and mobo? this issue happened to me and it was due to these not being plugged in correctly

Everything seems to be plugged in so that doesn't seem to be the problem