Got a new barebone unit with Gigabyte motherboard. Set everything up (not my first time building a comp), plugged it in, hard drive works can hear that, fan on processor is spinning, power supply working ok yet, I can’t get anything on my monitor…nothing. The motherboard has on board graphics card, I inserted a brand new video card in the pci express slot, still nothing. I don’t know what else to do and I’m very frustrated.
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I started the bench test over again, and after seeing the red light indicator on steady for the processor I removed it and noticed that the pins on one side looked different…they were bent. I had not even thought to check that. Anyway I straightened them out and it worked, problem solved. Everything else passed the bench test and is working fine.
Now, I do plan on replacing the APU and PSU (thank you Fingers for the link) as well but for right now I am content. This was good for someone coming back to working with computers. And I appreciate all the help. OtheHill I will save the link you posted for reference purposes. I did not use the Sapphire Radeon graphics card yet, I’ll have to think about that, and I did not test the HDMI but I will. So far though, everything seems to be working great.
You guys are the best, thank you!