No Video on New Build

[imported_Neuro]

I'm in the process of building a PC for my mother (who hasn't had to at some point) and can't get video to work. I can't tell if it's POSTing or not - I'm guessing not, since there's no video, but there's no PC speaker with the case I bought either. Everything turns on when I power up the machine, except the video card. The fan moves just slightly, then fails to start spinning. I tried the video card out of my own PC (XFX 7800GT) and although the card booted up fine, there was still no video going to the monitor. Anyone have any ideas, or should I just RMA the GPU and the board? Specs:

Antec Three Hundred Case (highly recommended, cheap and easy to build out of)
Antec Earthpower 500w PSU
Gigabyte MA770-DS3
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
2GB G.Skill
ASUS Radeon 2600HD Pro
40GB WD PATA
160GB Seagate SATA
Samsung DVD+-RW
Samsung SyncMaster 225BW

 

[jaythespacehound]

If the GPU isn't working in another machine that sounds like a pretty good clue that there's something wrong with it.
RMA that first I'd say.

EDIT: Ignore the above... misread your post!

I'd advise the usual to start troubleshooting:
Take the motherboard out of the case put it on something non conducting, remove everything but the cpu, gpu, psu (obviously) and 1 stick of ram and see if you can get it to post.

If it does put it back in the case and do the same, then add the rest of the stuff bit by bit checking that everything works.

If it won't post outside the case try as much as you can (ie the GPU and the RAM (possibly the cpu but leave that to last) in your computer to test if they work. One thing at a time of course.

Good luck,
Jay

 

[wanderer27]

Most likely it's one of the following:

1. Is the square 4 pin power connector plugged in (should be by CPU)?

2. Is the 6 pin power connector plugged into the Video card?

3. You could have a bad MB - I've had several display your symptoms.

4. Your Video card is bad.

Most MB's have a speaker on them so you can get beep codes on boot up to indicate problems. You may want to double check that and make sure it's hooked up if you have one.