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