tech help ping.
I hope you didn’t put a stand off in the wrong place.
The mother board was not damaged by lack of a GPU. I’d check seating of all components and then I’d find someone local with a bit more experience to help you along. Or vice-versa. Don’t take it the wrong way... build your own is great, but there are a few tricks.
Sounds like it could be ram. Try removing two sticks of your ram and see if that works.
Time to contact a pro.
Does the motherboard come with its own graphics card? If so, I'd plug into that before attempting to get the GeForce working.
Does the mobo/cpu have integrated graphics? If so try plugging the monitor into the integrated graphics output. I just went thru something very similar. IOW, you may be getting graphics output and just not knowing it cause you’re looking at the wrong port. Systematically plug your monitor into every place that supports it and see if there is output.
Are you hitting F2 while the system boots?
Looks like that mobo has onboard graphics, so you need to disable it to use your video card.
You may need to check and see if your memory is compatible with that motherboard.
Are you sure you hooked up power to all the right points? Mother board (possibly more than one place), HD, CD/DVD drive?
2)Remove and reseat the BIOS battery. If you have a voltmeter, check to see if it's bad (boards occasionally ship that way). You can otherwise put it on your tongue to see if it has a charge - unpleasant, but effective.
3)Get out the installation guide. Check your jumper settings.
4) Install one - and one only - bank of RAM, and the processor. Do NOT strap in any drives, USB headers, expansion cards, or anything else.
5) Make sure your power supply is connected - P1 and P4 cables. Plug in your keyboard, monitor, and mouse, and boot up.
strip it down to bare bones. Use the onboard video.
If it doesn’t work then, it’s probably the motherboard or CPU.
Also, check to make sure you don’t have a trace or something on the motherboard touching ground.
Cheers
Yeah, that board has an onboard graphics card. You should yank out the one you put in and plug your monitor into the onboard video to get your machine up and running. You can put it back in later if you want. Also check that 4-ping plug into the motherboard in the pic above.
If you turn your machine on but don’t see anything on the screen, watch your keyboard as the computer boots up. If you see the lights on your keyboard blink after you turn it on, there is a good chance it is booting but you just aren’t seeing it on the screen.
Remove the video card. Load the drivers for it before installing it while using the on-board video. Check that the memory sticks are well seated. It sounds like the Power Supply loopback is ok. Make sure all screws are tight as the serve a return paths. The default settings of the bios should’t be an issue right now.
Also, if you get a successful boot-up insert any CD’s that came with the board first. Load the files in the order they are listed and re-boot after each one.
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Screams 'memory problem' to me. Check the memory type, make sure they match and then remove and reseat them. Worth a shot.