Sorry I didnt see the words in brackets.So the PC is not booting at all.
The chances that either the RAM or graphics card is defective are 50-50.
If the RAM chip is defective nothing happens - no beeps and display.
Probably you might get some beeps if the video card is defective
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:58:03 -0400, "Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
said:
> Hi, 
> 
> I recently bought M2N-E SLI motherboard from ASUS, OCZ DDR2 Platinum
> Series PC6400 RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT PCIe.
> 
> Put everything together, but the monitor (VGA input) does not seem to
> receive any signal and stay blank. (normally you see the memory count,
> bios information etc when booting up).
> 
> Question is, is there a way to check if it's due to the Graphic card, or
> RAM, or the motherboard itself by not installing the RAM onto the Mobo?
> (i do not have spare mobo/Graphic card since it's been 8 years since i
> built my last PC and the old parts won't fit into the newer ones).
> 
> Or are the items i bought have known compatibility issues? (They should
> work 
> together by just reading the specs required.)
> 
> Thanks a lot for the help :)
> 
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