everythings hooked up correctly, everything powers on. LEDs come on, processor fans spin up, GFX card spins up, psu spins up, case fans spin up, hard drive spines up, nothing looks wrong to me.
since my motherboard does not come with onboard graphics I had to use my buddies pc to install win7, all the drivers for the mobo and the GPU on my hard drive.
Since my mobo doesn't have like a beep system to tell me what's wrong, idk where to start?
reseated the ram, reseated the GFX card, reseated both the mobo power plug and the CPU power plug and still nothing. Tried connecting via dvi/vga/HDMI AMD and no dice :/
any suggestions on what to do to get my rig up and running?
if you can help over Skype or phone that would be helpful too! Thanks, -skip
You have to plug the speaker onto your motherboard in order to get that 'beep system' if it doesn't have it. You usually connect them to your motherboard's front panel connectors, or nearby.
download th latest version from the bios of youre motherboard to an usb drive, go to the store where you buyed the motherboard, and ask if they can flash it with an phenom or Fx1.0 cpu.
or if you have a friend with a Fx1.0 i mean FX-x1xx cpu, or a phenom II cause those cpus supported by the motherboard out of box. fx4100 fx 6100 fx 8120 fx 8150 one of those cpus needed, to flash the bios, otherwise just send back the motherboard an buy a diffrent one.
the weird thing is that, neweggs desc. doesn't list that it supports FX, but in the manual and in reviews people are using the fx4100 and fx6300 just fine. I dont know if it worked for them out of the box, but I be sure to give that a try later on today.