Build Your Own - Step by Step ( i7 2600k)

[Bolimomo]

Quote from Sam Morgan:

Success at last! I will start posting my experience this week.

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet???




RE: Hope u're enjoying you nature walk; helps clear the mind.

Never trust it when the author said "this trail is ranked as easy... takes about 1 hour... round trip"

It's all with respect to a 25-year old body who runs up and down mountains for breakfast... LOL

After 2+ hours steadily walking up... finding myself climbing on a 45-degree incline on four limbs to the top of Lembert Dome (9450 ft elevation)...

 

[Sam Morgan]

Quote from Bolimomo:

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet???

We are ready to launch!. It was a little trickier than I thought. However, if I had to do it again, I think 1-2 hrs should be sufficient. Whoever said it was a joke to put a box together, was surely correct.

 

[TIKITRADER]

Quote from Sam Morgan:

We are ready to launch!. It was a little trickier than I thought. However, if I had to do it again, I think 1-2 hrs should be sufficient. Whoever said it was a joke to put a box together, was surely correct.

Congrats ! Fire it up and lets see it !

Excluding software, you could seriously
assemble one in half hour. ( im not saying cable management would look pretty, just that it could be done)

Installing os and many , many ,many windows updates can take
two days.

 

[Bolimomo]

Quote from TIKITRADER:

Virtual Box

http://www.virtualbox.org/

From the Guide:

1.7 Creating your first virtual machine

I think when I have more time, and after I receive the new disk drive, I will set up a few virtual environments. One with XP and one with Vista - to use some older software that doesn't work in Win 7 but have them available on the same machine.

Then I will set up a "crash and burn" environment to contain viruses... one that I will use to download freewares from the internet for evaluations.

 

[Sam Morgan]

Quote from TIKITRADER:

Congrats ! Fire it up and lets see it !

Back to the drawing board.

So when i had finished putting this box together, I tested it and it allowed me to play with the BIOS. I set a few things in there (nothing out of the norm.) and shut the machine down.

Yesterday, I wanted to install Win 7, MS Office, anti virus etc. However, when I switched on the machine, the monitor could not get the signal.

Troubleshooting:

1) I swapped the monitor with the ones running right now via my Macbook (Boli ) and they seemed to work fine. So the monitors are ok.

2) I tried connecting via each of the GPU (DVI and VGA), no luck.

3) I removed all the GPU's and then installed one and tried it this way. I repeated it with the other two. No luck either.

The mobo seems to be ok; no funny bleeps or sounds and the machine seems to start up just fine.

I really was not expecting this, so I'm a little disappointed. However, I remain optimistic and will get this up and running.

Any suggestions for now?

 

[TIKITRADER]

Quote from Sam Morgan:



Back to the drawing board.

So when i had finished putting this box together, I tested it and it allowed me to play with the BIOS. I set a few things in there (nothing out of the norm.) and shut the machine down.

Yesterday, I wanted to install Win 7, MS Office, anti virus etc. However, when I switched on the machine, the monitor could not get the signal.

Troubleshooting:

1) I swapped the monitor with the ones running right now via my Macbook (Boli ) and they seemed to work fine. So the monitors are ok.

2) I tried connecting via each of the GPU (DVI and VGA), no luck.

3) I removed all the GPU's and then installed one and tried it this way. I repeated it with the other two. No luck either.

The mobo seems to be ok; no funny bleeps or sounds and the machine seems to start up just fine.

I really was not expecting this, so I'm a little disappointed. However, I remain optimistic and will get this up and running.

Any suggestions for now?

*Do the video cards get a power supply connection by cable from the p/s ?
If so did you check to see if you connected the power to the card ?

*One card only, re-seat the card.
Make sure the card is all the way into the slot and you may hear a click when it is installed all the way and seated correctly.

*Swap out for another video cable to connect monitor to computer. Try both the dvi and vga again with the different cable.

*Did you check to see if the monitor itself is plugged in to an outlet? Also just give a good push on the plugs going to the monitor to make sure they are all the way in. Power cord may not be all the way into the monitor connection.

*The monitor power button is on correct ?

The motherboard drivers/ utilities must be installed but they are usually the very first thing after the OS is installed.


Do you know what you may have changed in bios ?

How much memory do you have installed at this time ?

When you switched on the machine, the machine did start up properly and run except for monitor without a signal ... Your motherboard may be equipped with LED's showing each section of the board working properly, does the board display this ?

 

[Sam Morgan]

Quote from TIKITRADER:

Does the video cars get a power supply connection by cable from the p/s ?
If so did you check to see if you connected the power to the card ?

GPU gets power from the PSU. The connections seem to be working ok. You may be on track as I did not troubleshoot the connection. I will try this.

One card only, re-seat the card.
Make sure the card is all the way into the slot and you may hear a click when it is installed all the way and seated correctly.

The cards are set properly; it worked the first time round.

Swap out for another video cable to connect monitor to computer. Try both the dvi and vga again with the different cable.

I've already tried this to no avail.

Did you check to see if the monitor itself is plugged in to an outlet?

Checked! Funny how the obvious can be overlooked sometimes.

Do you know what you may have changed in bios ?

I changed the following (to what I can remember):

Time
Date
System performance (to performance)
Turbo mode (enabled)
Anti-surge [/b]

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[Bolimomo]

- How do you know that the motherboard is on (with power) and that only the monitor not getting video signal?

- Are there any LED on the motherboard? Did they come on when you have switched the power on? Did the CPU heatsink fan come on?

- I can't remember your motherboard model... is there any onboard video? (If I remember it correctly it doesn't).


The first thing to do probably is to reset back to factory settings on your CMOS. I believe that can be done by removing the onboard tiny battery for more than 5 minutes or so and put it back in. Then power on again to see if you can get into BIOS/CMOS.

 

[TIKITRADER]

Quote from Sam Morgan:



I changed the following (to what I can remember):

Time
Date
System performance (to performance)
Turbo mode (enabled)
Anti-surge

I would take it out of turbo/ performance mode as you have not even installed the motherboard drivers as of yet correct ? Get the OS installed and the m/b drivers then switch to performance/turbo.( nothing to do with monitors, just highlighting the order for installation )

 

[dcraig]

Quote from Bolimomo:

The first thing to do probably is to reset back to factory settings on your CMOS. I believe that can be done by removing the onboard tiny battery for more than 5 minutes or so and put it back in. Then power on again to see if you can get into BIOS/CMOS.

Yes. Many motherboards have a jumper you can bridge to reset to factory settings. Check the manual. A paper clip will do the job.