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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Yeh used HDMI on back of graphics card.(Original post by hassi94)
Are you sure you used the right port (i.e. you used the HDMI port on your graphics card rather than on your motherboard, if you have a graphics card - that is). -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!what card is it?(Original post by Chow mein)
Yeh used HDMI on back of graphics card. -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Hmm, did you plug it in, change channel then turn it on? Are all the fans spinning?(Original post by Chow mein)
Yeh used HDMI on back of graphics card. -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!windforce 670(Original post by Iqbal007)
what card is it?
Yeh I did. All the fans are spinning fine, all the lights on the mobo look fine.(Original post by hassi94)
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Something seems off..........try a different hdmi port on the graphics card and then check your laptops setting for the input(Original post by Chow mein)
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Yeh I did. All the fans are spinning fine, all the lights on the mobo look fine. -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Is the card properly seated on the mobo? Try using integrated graphics and see what happens. If that works then your card is probably a dud :/(Original post by Chow mein)
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Yeh I did. All the fans are spinning fine, all the lights on the mobo look fine. -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Yeah, i got 5 ports, but only would work, I would have to set up the other ones before they work, though I think he's only connected one port.(Original post by CurlyBen)
Will an HDMI port necessarily be enabled to start with? My card has 2 DVI ports and sometimes only one will work initially. -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!My HDMI worked straight after building and I have the same card as chowmein.(Original post by CurlyBen)
Will an HDMI port necessarily be enabled to start with? My card has 2 DVI ports and sometimes only one will work initially. -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!right just took my card out and tried to reset the mobo and now it wont turn on at all(Original post by hassi94)
Is the card properly seated on the mobo? Try using integrated graphics and see what happens. If that works then your card is probably a dud :/
Scratch that it is turning on but still without the card not getting anythingLast edited by Chow mein; 30-06-2012 at 19:33. -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Hmm, do you have a monitor with a dvi input or something to test? What motherboard are you using?(Original post by Chow mein)
right just took my card out and tried to reset the mobo and now it wont turn on at all
Scratch that it is turning on but still without the card not getting anything -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Loads of people have ram problems surprisingly.......did you ever look at the supported ram list?(Original post by Chow mein)
Think it might be my Ram actually memok led light is on red -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Right just got it to boot by taking one of stick of ram out. Got a faulty one. However its come up saying CPU fan error?(Original post by hassi94)
Hmm, do you have a monitor with a dvi input or something to test? What motherboard are you using?
My CPU fan is spinning so not sure what it is? -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Is the CPU fan attached to the CPU fan header (not a system fan one) and is it 2, 3 or 4 pin?(Original post by Chow mein)
Right just got it to boot by taking one of stick of ram out. Got a faulty one. However its come up saying CPU fan error?
My CPU fan is spinning so not sure what it is? -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Yeah it is and it is 4 pin(Original post by CurlyBen)
Is the CPU fan attached to the CPU fan header (not a system fan one) and is it 2, 3 or 4 pin? -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!My ram is supported. I have two 4GB sticks, one seems to be faulty as it boots with one but not the other(Original post by Iqbal007)
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You did put them in slots 1 and 2 yeah? Have you tried booting with JUST the ram you think is faulty?(Original post by Chow mein)
My ram is supported. I have two 4GB sticks, one seems to be faulty as it boots with one but not the other -
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Re: Before buying PC please ask our advice first!Yeah I tried booting with each ram, one worked one didn't. No I had them in slots 1 and 3? But then the one stick doesn't work at all.(Original post by hassi94)
You did put them in slots 1 and 2 yeah? Have you tried booting with JUST the ram you think is faulty?
