no display

[aintnothang]

I took my pc apart to paint the case flat black. When I just tried to power it back up there is no display. Also my fan keeps revving up and down. Can anyone plz help me get my pc to display? I want to use my new 5750...=) which I haven't installed yet.

[Luke122]

Did you attach both power cables on the motherboard?

[aintnothang]

I attached the large one and the CPU. What other one?

[Luke122]

that's the two I was talking about.. the cpu and the atx connector.

Ok, have you got a system speaker? Any error beeps? Try reseating your ram and GPU as well. If still nothing, try reseating your CPU.

[aintnothang]

I believe I have a speaker, not sure if it works because I have never tried it. I tried reseating the gpu and and putting the new gpu in and still nothing. I will figure out where to plug the case speaker in at. Time to reseating the ram.

[Drum Thumper]

Check all your connections first. Then check your BIOS, it could be set to boot off of your on board video.

[aintnothang]

I don't have on board video.

[aintnothang]

This sucks.

[aintnothang]

Could it be an issue with the ground?

[nevermind1534]

I doubt it, but it's possible. Are all of the power cords plugged into the GPU? Try starting it up with only the motherboard and GPU plugged in.

[Airbozo]

Is there a second PCI-e slot? You can try it in that slot to check.

I just had 2 bad mobos with the same issue. The primary PCI-e slot is bad.

[aintnothang]

I will try that except the fans revving up and down puzzle me. I was hoping something with the ground since it's a freshly painted case.

[aintnothang]

Ugh....

[Cryptonic]

Few suggestions/observations:

Monitor was working correctly and powering on since you said you got the 'no display' message right? VGA/DVI cable not damaged or pins bent to hell correct?

Check to make sure everything was seated correctly (CPU/HSF, GPU, RAM)?

Bench test it with bare bones(board,cpu/hsf, one stick of ram). Preferably with a known good power supply. Would eliminate any weird grounding and shorting issues or mechanical stresses.

As a last ditch attempt I'd try reseting the Bios to default(removing battery and jump pins) and swap in a known good CPU/HSF. If it doesn't work then its probly faulty mobo.

[aintnothang]

Thank you So much!

[aintnothang]

Ok, now I have a display....but windows won't boot up, it will just restart. Yet ubuntu will boot up fine and is what I'm using right now.

[aintnothang]

any suggestions on how to get windows runnin'?

[Cryptonic]

So its restarting right away or are you able to F8 boot into safe mode?

Since you were able to boot into Ubuntu it doesn't seem like a hardware issue. It would lead me to believe its either a corrupt OS or a virus. Did you try the repair option on the
Vista install disc?

[aintnothang]

It asks me if I want to restart windows normally. I am gonna try my repair disc.