graphics card "no signal" on monitor

[RuFF21]

Just built this pc and and i cant get the graphics card to give out a signal. Its a geforce 6600 gt. Im using an as rock motherboard i dont understand why its not working. The fan come on a works and everything just no picture?

any ideas?

thanks tom

 

[Dafthead]

At the risk of sounding like i'm trying to teach grandma to suck eggs...

Have you checked all your cabling connections?

 

[Dafthead]

At the risk of sounding like i'm trying to teach grandma to suck eggs...

Have you checked all your cabling connections?

 

[Dafthead]

Phucking double post

 

[V1NNY]

you connected a molex plug to the card if needed?

 

[RuFF21]

molex? whats that?



edit: ohhhhhhh thats what the slot on the top of the gfx card is for?

 

[Andy]

You haven't plugged the monitor into the onboard socket have you?

I've done that before.

 

[RuFF21]

no andy i havent :/ where can i find these molex cables? the gfx card is used and didnt come with one

 

[V1NNY]

yeah it needs an external power source like the ones for hard drives etc

 

[V1NNY]

i have the same card a pny 6600gt and that requires a seperate connector

 

[Rasclart]

Molex is a bogo connector like plugs into optical and hard drives.

 

[V1NNY]

yeah as above lol

 

[RuFF21]

can someone link me to the thing i need?

vinny it is a 6600gt as well, these any good?

thanks lads

 

[Clart]

 

[RuFF21]

thanks for the help but the connector to the graphics card looks like a mini pci slot on the top? that wouldnt fit it.

 

[Clart]

thats for the SLI bridge. doesn't look like it has a power connector. is the fan running?

Have u tried another agp port?

 

[RuFF21]

yes the fan is running

 

[Clart]

does it have onboard video? try disabling it

 

[RuFF21]

i would but nothing comes up so i cant disable anything lol i cant see what im doing

 

[Clart]

if u have onboard video plug the monitor lead into that. install the drivers for the GFX card, the disable the onboard through the bios.

 

[RuFF21]

on the mobo it looks like a monitor slot but the pins are wrong... i will try putting my other gfx card in installing the drivers for the geforce then putting the gefore back in. thanks for your help ill keep updating

 

[wozzaa]

Not got a PCI-E style connector on the card has it?

Should be a small black section in 2 lots of 3 pins.

If so you need a plug in there to give the card power. technically does not require it but if its provided sometimes its needed. Otherwise make sure you have monitor plugged into the right port on the graphics card. And if the motherboard has onboard video that it is disabled in the bios. But with you saying about thepins chances are its a serial port rather than vga port.

 

[RuFF21]

it is pci - e but no connector on it like that, as before the only thing i can see is a small gold pci bit on the top

 

[RuFF21]

the problem is in the ram i put some in from my other pc and it worked no problem at all. strange but expensive

 

[Pauldredge]

usually dodgy ram beeps.

 

[RuFF21]

didnt beep but its working fine with my other ram in it. :/

 

[Rob_]

Your rams knackered then isnt it