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I built my computer. Everything powers up fine but there is no signal to the monitor… so, my guesses are that either the DVI to VGA connector is broken, or the video card I bought is not compatible with my motherboard, or I shocked the motherboard when I was installing it. Tomorrow I’m going to buy an anti-static wrist strap and a DVI cable and hope that the problem is that simple. Otherwise I’m looking at another ~$100 to get a working video card :/
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Responses to my articleBut the computer start up, right?
Can you hear the beep?
The reason I tell you this is because the motherboard comes with a jumper that locks the computer and doesn’t let it start. I still don’t know what’s the purpose of the locker jumper, but it’s there and I didn’t know when it happened to me… so I got very frustrated for a couple of hours, until I checked the manual.
There’s no beep… I’m looking at the manual and I see nothing about jumpers, but I’ll look again!!!
Nope, no jumpers and no beeps :X
Ha, this turned out to be a stupid problem! I had the 20 pin ATX power connected but I didn’t realize that I had to connect the 4 pin power as well (20+4, I get it now!). Everything works now, all my hardware is detected properly and I’m just mulling over whether to install Ubuntu or Vista first…
Nice save. Glad to hear that nothing died out there. I’ve always imagined massive amounts of parts-death to occur if you failed to get all the power leads connected properly. I always check like five times to make sure that everything’s right.
Install Vista first. MS’ OSes always like to futz with the MBR and make other’s a bitch to get back to. Then you can also follow Jeff’s excellent burn-in tips over at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000907.html. Thinking about it, I should have linked you to that article in the first place… fiddlesticks.
Oh yes, just in case someone happens upon this in the deep dark distant future…
One other thing to note is that some mainboards A) don’t have an onboard speaker and require an off-board one to be hooked up OR B) actually use the onboard sound-card to output voice-post-codes through whatever external speaker you’ve got hooked into the sound-card. It took me almost two hours of frustration before I plugged in a speaker to a silent box out of desperation and heard “Bad CPU. Bad CPU. Bad CPU.”. Oi.
Eh, I still don’t know what’s up with the speaker issue… my case has no speaker so I have an unused speaker connection on my mobo and so far I haven’t heard anything out of my speaker setup, but we’ll see if there are any voice codes down the road… apparently case speakers are hard to find but if I happen on one I’ll buy it.
Vista 64-bit Home Premium is installing right now on Partition 2, when that’s all done I’ll do the necessary updates and then I’ll set up Ubuntu 7 on Partition 1.
Cool beans. Sounds like fun. At this point you really shouldn’t need an internal speaker. Most of the hardware faults that would be caught that way are already behind you. You’ll tend to smell anything that happens after that. ;p
If you’re really obsessed with it - I’ve got a few kicking around somewhere that I suppose I could post you.
Also… you do have more build pics to post to flickr… right? ;p
I’m posting this from my new computer, so we are making some good progress!!!
You don’t have to send me a case speaker, I’m sure things will work fine.
More pictures are coming soon, I’m just in the middle of installing drivers so it’s gonna take a while.
Good news: I am currently making this comment while using Ubuntu! Woo! Automatix2 is amazing.
Alright. Good job! Was the install troublesome, or did it just whiz right on by?
I just scoped out your latest pics, very nice. That looks like a nice big 120mm fan on the side, that’ll be quite nice for cooling. That display also looks quite nice.
Jordan: Installing both operating systems was very easy and it’s great because now I have a lot of useful features plus I have my third partition which I can access from both OS’s. Unfortunately installing NVIDIA drivers or any kind of graphical effects in Ubuntu is totally not working and I’m trying to see whatever I can do to make this work. If I could just get a decent widescreen resolution (like 1440×900 or 1680×1050) then I would be done messing with this.
yeah the fans are wonderful, there’s a 120mm on the side and another in the back, one lines up perfectly with the CPU and the other lines up perfectly with the GPU. That’s really why I bought this case.
Christian; If you haven’t already gotten the drivers fixed… try installing the drivers manually from nVidia’s site. It’s typically a straight-forward installation.
Jordan: The drivers from the site were the problem! I fixed the issue on Sunday by using ENVY, which I seriously recommend.
Interesting. Way to go in getting it figured out though.
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