jus finished building, power on, nothing shows up

[SergeantStogie]

now can i assume i did something wrong with the video card since nothing is showing up?
i have a asus GeForce GTX 560
its sloted in, psu is connected to the gpu. there is a green light and a orange light lit up on the graphics card when i power the computer on. not sure if they r good or bad the manual that came with the card was pretty pathetic.

[Tomsanity]

are you sure your PSU is enough for the GPU?

[Deleted]

are you sure your PSU is enough for the GPU?

was kinda thinking the same when i saw the post :S

[shoebox]

Can you please post all your hardware components, aswell as the model number of your Asus GTX 560,(which one of these is it http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/N...ies/GF_GTX_560)

[SergeantStogie]

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K

ASUS ENGTX560 DCII OC/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support

ASUS P8P67-M (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Rosewill FUTURE Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case,come with Four Fans-2x Front Blue LED 120mm Fan,1x Top 120mm Fan

Kingston HyperX X2 Grey Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX

Seagate Barracuda ST3500413AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

[Deleted]

That PSU seems a bit low to me... (I'm no expert though).

[taekvideo]

550w is plenty for that setup

[SergeantStogie]

ya id hope its good enough. i got that all from a combo deal off newegg and i trust them. its my first time building a computer so im pretty sure i did something wrong

[delnadris]

Did you connect the monitor to it?

[Voraliska]

If you go to best buy they will check your power supply for free. If thats enough power I would suggest trying to replug everything, first time i put my computer together had the same issue, wound up being a faulty power supply, then a faulty graphics card. If you have spare parts try switching them around.

[Lithnor]

That PSU seems a bit under what I would call a "safe" zone for your computer.

You have to remember that PSUs don't actually put out the EXACT wattage they are sold at, and the ones that come with cases are notoriously bad.



The last Nvidia card I had was able to go into a sort of "lower power" mode when only 1 of the connectors was plugged in. Try unhooking one of them and seeing if it comes on.

Also, make sure all the connections between your monitor and your computer are secure, including the one plugging directly into the back of your monitor.

[Skelly]

What monitor do you have and what kind of cable/port are you using to connect?

Try spamming f8 for a while as you start up the machine. This will help if the problem is with the default resolution being too big for your monitor.

[Bakinpacman]

A quick and easy test is to remove the motherboard battery when the machine is off and clear the CMOS by changing the jumper settings to the alternate mode for around 30 seconds and then place the battery back in the motherboard. After another 30 seconds the switch the CMOS jumper back to its original setting and boot your computer.

Basically this forces the motherboard to re-detect the hardware setup it is running with. Sometimes the motherboards will not be cleared to this state by the manufacturer due to various reasons.

Other things you can try is booting the machine with just the cpu and memory attached the machine and see if you get any beep code errors if you have a speaker attached to the motherboard. These can related back to with the motherboard manual and can give you an general direction of where your error could be coming from.

After that add each piece individually till you come across your error and then you can work it out or give us some more information if it is a little troublesome.

[Decan]

550w is enough for a none SLI/Crossfire setup

Have you got another card to try out?
Maybe your video card is dead.

[Skelly]

That PSU seems a bit under what I would call a "safe" zone for your computer.

You have to remember that PSUs don't actually put out the EXACT wattage they are sold at, and the ones that come with cases are notoriously bad.

His setup will pull about 400W. Also, Antec makes good power supplies. It should be able to put out what its rated at.

[delnadris]

Taken from the Nvidia website - Minimum Recommended System Power (W): 500 W.
That power supply should work. It should at least show something, if you connected the monitor. Try reconnecting everything.
If still no go, check to see if the card's fan is spinning, if it isn't it measn it isn't getting power. Lastly, try connecting it to a friend's PC to see it's not faulty.

[4long2wide]

I know my radeon 6950 requires 550w from my PSU by itself. I have a 950 though. So I am not worried X:

[Wonkeli]

Well i had a similar problem on one of my machines, pretty much the same setup but i cheaped out and used my old 550W PSU...and it would not work.
Got a Corsair TX650w and runs like a clock now :P

[Deleted]

I know my radeon 6950 requires 550w from my PSU by itself. I have a 950 though. So I am not worried X:

lol'd, your whole system doesn't even take 450w

[Skelly]

I know my radeon 6950 requires 550w from my PSU by itself. I have a 950 though. So I am not worried X:

O.o HD6950 will not take more than 200W