I built my own pc at a fair and it doesnt work here are the specs :-)

Intel Core 2 Quad E6600
2GB DDR3 RAM 667MHz
ASUS p5K SE Motherboard
MSI NX8600GTS T2D Series Graphics card
320GB hdd

plus all other standard things

the problem is i plug in a monitor into my display port the manual says to put it in (an adapter is needed, which i have used) and when i turn my pc on to start setting it up the monitor doesn't detect the pc starting up and nothing is shown on the screen even though it is on, also i tired to go into bios to configure all that (my manual says press "del" to enter bios CMOS setup) but the monitor doesn't do anything and i tried putting windows xp home edition cd in but that doesnt work! My monitor is fine because it works with my old pc. I need help please help me with my problem

What's your Power Supply Unit rated at and do you have the 6-pin power cable plugged into the video card?

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no it looks like 4 pin and is the power thingy 600w? thats my power supply also the graphics card has 2 DVI-D slots and my monitor has a VGA plug so i got an adapter and plugged it in, do u think that could be an issue?

Ah my bad, 4-pin, and yes, 600W is plenty.

Make sure you've got the adapter screwed in really tight, I've had a few problems where my monitor wouldn't turn on, and it turned out that I didn't have the adapter on tight enough

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well i can say this, there is a cable tht plugs into the grphics card then the motherboard, it itlike smtfi or somethingz.....

Hmm.. I've never heard of a cable that goes from the motherboard to the video card.. There should be one that goes from your Power Supply Unit to the video card, the 4-pin cord (or 6-pin).

Should look something like this:

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it sounds like he is saying the power connector is a Molex 4 pin, which wouldnt make much sense.....

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hey, lol this is old it ended up being faulty RAM , thx anyways guys, can u try to fix my NAS problem???

Thanks for letting us know that you got this sorted, ill mark it as resolved As for your other problem, plz be patient as we are all volunteers

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