I finished building my PC recently. when I turn on the monitor when the computer isn’t on, there’s obviously no signal and I see the bouncing logo, but when the computer is on, it says that there is no signal, and that my monitor is going into standby mode, and the display turns off. my gpu seems to be working fine, and I reseated my ram. What should I do?

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    Have you let your computer just sit there running for a few minutes? It might just need to memory train.

    Do you get any error codes or beeps from the motherboard?

    Does your CPU have onboard graphics you could try?

    Make sure the monitor is on the correct input, even though they should auto switch it doesn’t hurt to check.

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      9 months ago

      How would I be able to hear the beeps? I can’t exactly see an error code since I have no display

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        Does the motherboard have any LEDs? If you don’t have a motherboard speaker, the motherboard sometimes shows LEDs to display an error code.

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            You should lookup your motherboard manual or something to see what the LEDs mean. From what you say here, it sounds like the POST might be failing due to the CPU. Maybe try reinserting the CPU.

            It could also be that it posts but then it should display and let you get into the bios. So not sure. It’s hard to diagnose without more info.

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                Try reseating your CPU, check the pins to make sure you didn’t bend one. Taking some photos and zooming in can help you get a better look.

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                    Sorry got busy and work. Any luck? None of lights stay on?

                    If not I would just double check and reseat everything, and for shits and giggles pull the cmos battery for 30s and put it back, if you haven’t already.

                    If nothing else works I would be thinking about RMAing the mobo.

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          The boot light turns on, which according to the manual means I don’t have a boot device, which is weird since a) I’m trying to boot into bios, and b) I have a fedora USB plugged in

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        If you can’t hear anything does your motherboard have a display? Did it come with a little speaker? Look in your motherboards manual for the best way to get error signals.

        Did you give your computer at least 5 min powered on though?