Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Just got new Gaming PC off of ibuypower. NEED HELP!?

K so i just got this PC-

http://www.amazon.com/iBuyPower-Gamer-Power-AM522D...

And i turned it on and everything seems to be going fine, but when i plug the hdmi cable into my 24in hdtv, it just sais "no signal". Any idea what that means and how i can fix it, its brand new, should i try using a vga cable, i looked in there and the graphics card's fan is not moving, what should i do?

2 Answers

Relevance
  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Okay, if when you first boot up the computer you should see a black screen with white text, if you can see this on the TV, but it cuts out once Windows is loaded then it's something software related. If this is what's happening then you probably need to lower the resolution on your computer to the native resolution on your TV and then try again. You can change the resolution by right clicking the desktop > screen resolution.

    If you can't see that screen (POST) when it boots up, usually when this happens it's because it's plugged into the onboard video, plug it into one of the bottom video ports and not the top, you have a dedicated video card and when something like that is installed it disables the onboard, sort of "stock" video that comes with the motherboard.

    You'll have video ports in this area of the case: http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1311/co...

    You should have HDMi, DVI and VGA on that card so you should be all good with using the dedicated if that's the problem.

    Source(s): I dunno how good it'll look on a 24" TV though, if it's not a nice Samsung display it'll probably be blurry. You could watch TV and movies but that's about it.
  • 9 years ago

    Same thing happened to my friend's PS3. Try changing the resolution settings on your tv. If that doesn't work then try Resetting your tv fully.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.