Monitor not being detected

[raulworth]

Am building a new PC, ATX, AMD 2 Athlon 6000 Dual Core Processor.

When it is turned on, power is being supplied as the fans are rotating, but the monitor has no signal.

The monitor is connected using the onboard video card.

Let me know what I am overlooking.

Thanks:confused

 

[philbar71]

have you reset the bios?

 

[KSoD]

Do you see the BIOS Splash screen at all? Is the onboard video enabled?

 

[raulworth]

I have not reset the bios and there is never a flash screen on the monitor.

I don't know if the onboard video is enabled.

It is the same way it came when in the box.

I was looking at putting in a video card, as I have a few spare.
Not sure if this will fix the problem either.

 

[KSoD]

I woudl try a Video Card if you have one to try. Sounds like the onboard is disabled.

 

[philbar71]

and reset the bios.

 

[raulworth]

Have ATI Radeon 7500 All-in-one Wonder, and Saphire 9200.

The motherboard documentation insists on a PCI Express Graphics Card
All 3 slots PCIEX16, PCIEX1 and PCI1-2 look for PCI cards.

They run on DDR memory; the motherboard is DDR2.

They dont apprear to be compatible.

What is the best way to enable the onboard video, in this scenario.

Would the motherboard be able to handle the ATI Radeon 7500 ddr 256mb?

The motherboard uses ddr2 memory.

The video card is approximately 5 years old, maybe more

 

[KSoD]

As long as the mother board has the interface to connect with the Video Card it will work. They system can handle DDR2 System RAM. GFX RAM is different. There are cards out there now with GDDR5 RAM on the cards.

 

[raulworth]

I added a new video card and the monitor is still not detected.

The new card is 'ASUS GF8400GS PCI-E 256mb DDR2'

I disconnected the monitor and connected it to the laptop, and it got a status of 'not connected'.

Am hoping it is something to do with the monitor cables, as there is power going into the monitor.