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ok so i just bought a whole new rig, mobo standard msi, nice psu, and when i boot up i just get no video input. the monitor just behaves as if theres nothing plugged in. i got the gpu in the first pci slot, and dvi cables to the monitor, but nothing. everything powers on though, fans are going and i hear stuff working, just no display.

When you boot up, your CPU & gfx fan should rev up and be noticeably loud, then slow down to near-silent. Does this happen, or do the fans stay revved up?

they boot but are quiet the whole time. they stay running

just tried it with a different monitor, and different dvi cable, still nothing. also i have two gpus total and have tried them both separately, and nothing

Did you check the BIOS jumper? Some vendors like to ship board with the bios jumper in the clear position and you have to switch positions for normal operation.

No change in fan speed suggests there's no CMOS POST happening.

Make sure you have your 4-pin connectors (or single 8-pin connector) in the Motherboard's CPU power plug.
Looks like this coming from power supply: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zalman/ZM850-HP/images/12v.jpg

Plug like this on MoBo (bottom-right of image): http://img.hexus.net/v2/motherboards/amd/SAPPHIRE/PI_RS780G/board_cpu-big.jpg


Reseat the RAM, then reseat the graphics cards. Try with only one graphics card in. Make sure the 6-pin PCI-e molex connectors from your power supply are connected to the graphics cards.

I have the 8 pin connector plugged into the motherboard. I have two PCI-e cables from PSU to graphics card. I've been trying to boot with only one card the whole time.

just made sure on the bios jumper, the jumper is set correctly, or at least when i move it the same thing happens (no post)

I hate when that happens. Does it have onboard video it could be defaulting to? What's the model of the board?

what motherboard?

frequently, only one of the 4-pin connectors gets plugged in to the CPU power connector, and the manufacturer (like; MSI) has four of them blocked off with a little rubber thingie that's prone to falling out.  read the manual for your board.

Its a msi 890fxa-gd79 (w/ no onboard video i think)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274

yeah, there was a little rubber blocker thing, but i took it off. oops. the manual itself says 8 pin though, and shows all 8 pins, so idk

You may have some defective hardware, then. I'm guessing the MoBo doesn't have an LED POST readout on it?

I'd try reseating the RAM, only putting one stick in, and trying different RAM slots, then reseating the CPU, then replugging all the power supply connections, and then I'd send it back if it still isn't working -- worst part is you don't know what's failing unless you can get a POST code. Rarely, MoBo manufacturers include a speaker which will beep out an error code. If you have a case, sometimes they have the speaker built into case with a wire coming out which goes into the speaker pins for a code.

how can i reseat the cpu i dont have any adhesive to reapply the heat sink after ive done that?

I would NOT use the full 8 pins. I burned up an MSI motherboard using 8 pins.

nope.  you need to plug just one 4-pin in.  the rubber blocker was almost surely toward the CPU end of the board.  plug in the 4 pin connector (the one that fits - they're different.  look at the corners; some are rounded, some are square) to the four pins that are closest to the PCI/PCIe slots.

I just got one of those this week. Mine's running like a champ so far. Mine didn't have any blocker I plugged in the 8 pin connector.

i've never owned that particular board - but i've had lots of MSIs.  haven't seen one yet that took all 8.  but if it worked for you i guess i'm wrong.

i'd still try it though...  ???

ok i unplugged the 8 pin connector, broke it in half, and put in the correct 4 pin. booted, and the same thing happens

Reaching for straws:
Voltage on power supply is switched to the incorrect setting (many manufacturers stopped including the switch toggle, but some still do -- I think it varies from 110v to 120v or 240v -- don't recall).

Something metal on the motherboard?? I'm guessing there's no burning silicon smell, though, so probably not.

Unsupported CPU??

RAM isn't in DDR3_1 slot if using only one stick of RAM -- sometimes a MoBo won't identify the RAM if not in the first slot.

Only 20 of the 24 pins to MoBo are connected.

there is no voltage setting on my PSU

nothing on the mobo

cpu is amd sempron, should be supporter

well, i was wrong then.


if you got the mobo new in the box, it came with a little speaker (pencil-eraser size) attached with two inch-long wires.  plug it in to the speaker header, and check MSI's web site for beep codes...

k i finally found the little speaker. i booted up and got i believe 3 short beeps. which means base 64k ram failure. what do i do? using 1gb of kingston ddr ram i believe

just tried taking out the ram and put in two 512mb sticks that were lying around. same problem, and still get 3 short beeps on boot

Are they DDR3 13333 or faster?

Using this ram stick, its 2gb actually

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134812

it says speed ddr 1333 so yeah.

the 512mb sticks that i tried, probably not

Did you try putting the ram in all the slots? It sounds like a bad stick of RAM but you can't rule out the board either unless you know the RAM stick is bad.

That is the right memory for that board.

Troubleshooting 101:  Unplug EVERYTHING that isn't absolutely essential to booting.  Triple check the things that are.

Motherboard should be populated with CPU, RAM and video card only.  Double check orientation and seating of memory (DIMM slot 1, closest to CPU).  Triple check it.

Make sure video card is fully and evenly seated.

Check main ATX power cable.  Make sure it is fully inserted and latched.

Check the +12V connector.  The yellow wires should be on the side of the latch.  Nothing in the manual suggests that you can't use the full 8 pins.  If you go with only 4 pins, I think use the right side of the connector (looking at the motherboard so that the latch is "up").

Make sure the CPU fan is connected.

Make sure the CMOS jimper is on pins 1 and 2.

Leave the speaker connected, I guess.

Connect a monitor to the video card.

Since this board apparently has a power button built in, there should be nothing else plugged in at this point.  No SATA cables, no USB cables, no front panel headers, absolutely nothing else.

Try to power it up using the onboard button.  Check the diagnostic LED (page 2-28 in the manual).

Ok, I took the motherboard out of the case. Booting it up on the insulated material it came in. With one graphics card plugged in, and one stick of RAM. Nothing else.

When I boot, instead of 3 long beeps, I now get 1 long beep, and 2 short beeps.

MSI website says this means "A video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot intialize the video screen to display any additional information "

What are my options now?

The debug lights on the mobo that were saying FF before, now are saying 2E

However, there is no reference for 2E in the manual

you probably need a monitor plugged in.

what are you using?  a monitor with a VGA connector - plugged into a gender-bender on the first DVI plug (the one in line with the PCIe slot the card is plugged into)?

What exactly do you mean by insulating material?

2E appears to be somewhere in the vicinity of setting up the video device; well after setting up the initial slice of RAM it needs for booting, but before the initial video display.  Make sure the aux power for the video card is plugged in (I forgot to list it, but it is essential for botting).

I have a monitor pluged in.

I'm using a monitor with a DVI connector, but I tried it using the VGA connector on the monitor then using the gender bender plug to connect to the card, but same result

the insulating material is just the plastic the motherboard came in.

the aux power is plugged into the video card, i didnt have it plugged in fully, i only had one 6 pin connector in before and the system just BEEEEEEPED...so i plugged two 6 pins, or maybe one 6 pin one 8 pin in and that stopped....that might have caused a problem with the first card i used, but like i said i have two cards, and the second one i plugged in correctly the first time, and the same result

GOT IT TO POST!

I'm not sure exactly what it was because I did so many things in the past few hours, but I just took the card out of PCI-slot 1 and put it in PCI-slot 4, booted up, and it posted. i got one short beep, then two very short beeps afterwards, prolly because it has no boot device, but yeah

thanks everyone for your help so far, im hugely relieved, now for the long process of getting the software to run!

Slot 4 is 4x only, by the way.  That is perfectly fine for mining, but might not be great if you plan to play games on it too.

thanks for the tip, ive actually had to move it to slot 3 because it wouldnt fit in slot 4, psu was in the way haha. but its working now, got ubuntu installing, so *crosses fingers*