PC SOS. Need help! (Partially Solved)

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OK, so i just built my first pc. I was very careful to avoid static and I am pretty sure that i have connected everything.

Ok, so i solved the power problem, but my pc is still not connecting to my monitor. I know that it is not my monitor because ive been switching the plug in between the pc i just built and my old one, it works fine with the old one.

Any suggestions on what may have gone wrong. Please, any ideas would be helpful, from a single part to someone giving me a full checklist.

Parts:

Case: Zalman Z5

PSU: CORSAIR Builder Series CX500

APU: AMD A10-5800K

MotherBoard: ASRock FM2A75M-DGS

RAM: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB

Any advice would be appreciated. I am kind of freaking out.

 

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Can you give us a part list?

also when my younger brother built his first PC he did not connect the 8 pin CPU power cable and got symptoms similar to what you are describing. 

did you did put in the motherboard stand off, they are little brass pieces that screw into the case then you set the motherboard on top of them and screw it into place.  If you did not put in the stand offs the mother board could be grounding itself out.

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MotherBoard only had 6 stand offs that I saw and installed, and CPU power connecter was a 4 Pin which i connected.

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Do you have another PC that you can try the parts in?  I would start with the PSU.

 

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No, the pc i have now is ancient. Would it be the psu if the LED was turning on?

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My boss asked me to look at his PC last summer, the power LED would come on for standby mode but nothing would happen when I hit the power button, I swapped out the PSU and it worked perfectly.

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Thank You for all of your help. I have figured out the problem. The schematic of the System Panel Header in my Mobo manual was confusing and i had the power and reset switches messed up.

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Haha, yea I remember I did that once, hit power nothing happened, hit reset it powered right up

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id hit it, with a crowbar...  

 

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Pickaxe that ho.

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Yes, I will hit my brand new computer with a crowbar and pickaxe. . . .Any serious suggestions?