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Publicradiohead
05-02-2008, 09:05 AM
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

All the fans are spinning, the ram seems to flash

No signal on the monitor.

I did a bad thing I think.

The Wise Monkey
05-02-2008, 09:12 AM
What does your motherboard manual say?

bighoo93
05-02-2008, 09:27 AM
For me, the spinning fans with no monitor was due to my failure to plug in the 4-pin connector from the PSU into the motherboard. I did not hear any beeps either, though.

Publicradiohead
05-02-2008, 10:05 AM
doesn't talk about the codes... but I found the site that said it could be a short?!?!

Publicradiohead
05-02-2008, 11:27 AM
just needed to pci-e some more juice to the gpu. :)

so... now it beeps once, quick.

all the fans are spinnin', lights flash on the mobo near the ram... but no bios or video?

shyster
05-02-2008, 11:56 AM
Ok so that statement "just needed to pci-e some more juice to the gpu." means you just pluged in the power cord into it?

Other than that what are your current hardware specs? Hard to diagnose a problem if we do not know whether we are working on a plant, animal, or human...

Most obvious guess on no video though would be that you are using a P5KC with an E8400 CPU. If your setup is anything other than that, specifics are needed.

Publicradiohead
05-02-2008, 06:56 PM
e8400
gigabyte p35-ds3r
4gb gskill
evga 8800gts 512 -- just one
gamer extreme

Thought I had it figured out, but then didn't.

Seems that Vista only sees a regular vga adapter, and nothing for the soundcard. :(

And now I got things all out of order.

Thanks for helping Shyster

RickyTick
05-02-2008, 07:59 PM
Try booting with only 1 stick of ram. If it fails, try a different stick.

Load Vista SP1 as soon as possible.

Download latest video card driver from Nvidia.com.

The Wise Monkey
05-03-2008, 05:04 AM
Vista doesn't come pre-loaded with the latest nVidia drivers - it only comes with a generic VGA driver that will work on almost every graphics card. Installing the new graphics driver should be one of the first things that you do. :)

Publicradiohead
05-04-2008, 12:33 AM
done-and-done.

cue the pomp and circumstance track -- I dust graduated!

Thanks for all the great walk through and great support.