@@Omlet221 lots of people have 4k TVs, though I would say 1440p is still the standard, atleast for high refresh rate gaming for monitors. I would say though, if you want or need 4K make sure it’s hdr. It’s not really important for 1080p/720 TVs but for 4k IMO it is.
This video helps still 10 years later. Just watched this and fixed my computer after looking at all my parts and troubleshooting for 3 hours. Definitely the best person to help with pc problems, Linus = the G.O.A.T.
Wow! 11 years later and Linus is now world famous, very wealthy, and already semi-retired. Well done kid or, more accurately, super intelligent and gifted man! My 6-year old PC that I built with the help of his and a few other RU-vid techies just did this and I’m betting it’s due to a bad RAM stick after watching this. Thanks.
My pc crashed couple days ago. I checked everything ram, cpu, fans, gpu, cables, hdd's. The psu turns on and the psu fan is spinning but for a few days after the crash it didn't powered up my mobo. Now it does power up my mobo but I'm stuck at post. :( I suspect the psu though. Brand new system three weeks old.
Just built first custom PC ever with my son. We did a case-less test per one of your other videos and then had a no post in the case. You fixed in in less than 2 minutes in this video. Thank you for all the information!
OH MY GOD, I'm watching this video on June 2020!!! It is sooo cool to see how far you guys have come since then, and how much the hardware has progressed since then!! When looking at that motherboard you was troubleshooting in the video, and looking at motherboards and other hardware of today, things have definitely came a long long way!!!! Plus in this video, obviously you was still working for NCIX, when today you have your own company of Linus Tech Tips!!! It's just so cool looking at back then and then looking at your stuff now!!!
Hi. I see how long ago this video was done but I still want to say thanks a lot! I built my first pc today by myself. I of course had done some homework prior to building by watching videos, reading posts etc. Well anyway, when it was all together, and I turned the power on for the first time .... no video. Not even a blip on the screen. Not a good feeling .. lol . Thankfully I hit your video early on, and the problem turned out to be I that I had not hooked up the 2nd power cable to the board. After doing that, it was pretty much smooth sailing.. Installing Windows and drivers, etc. I am sending this from my new pc. THANK YOU again!
If it still doesnt work, check your processor for any bent pins. If there are try bending them back with a paperclip. I've had the same problem twice and it worked both times.
This video is now over 10 years old.......I have no idea why RU-vid just recomemended this, but seeing at a young, inocent Linus being professional is hilarious.
Damn. Here watching this in late 2018. Just built my first new PC, R5 2600x, GTX 1070 FE, X-470 Prime MOBO. Been at it the whole night and I finally got it to boot into the BIOS thanks to this video. Thanks Linus ❤️
Hey NCIX I did all of the things you said to do in but I still don't get any beeps and no display, my computer turns on fine and it's all brand new supply's. I don't know what else I can do, can you help me?
I know this is majorly old... But... I've had a loop issue for ages now, sometimes it was intermittent, sometimes every time I switched on. Watched this video and everything is fixed. Thanks linus.
Yesterday when I went to build my pc it wouldn't post. I spent 3 hours of my time replacing every piece of hardware in the thing before I figured out that the problem was the PSU. It was defective.
Thank you Linus, thank you so much. I was about to cry when my computer wouldn't boot after a bios change, but a CMOS reset did the trick. Thanks again.
put it this way the ugly motherboards look lethal yet you end up buying eye candy like Morden boards I still would not want to touch any part of a motherboard while turned on lol
butt ugly but works vs fancy and may not work. I'd say give me the ugliest one u got. as for touching the mobo. I don't have any safety straps on me but have a metal case so I touch it and then the only thing I'll never touch when on is the psu. but every time I open the case my hands sweat like crazy. imagine a very greasy pizza the ones that you can see light reflecting from. (I wish I was exaggerating even a little). I've also never felt any shocks while working on PC's yet.
dont complain if its not yours you can not complain it is rude and makes people argure to you so delete this comment you did not make the hardware ok? be gratful of what we had before. they might be people on low budget using them. How would you feel if someone says your computer hardware is bad. dont complain you could say good stuff but you always report this is not good be ashamed of yourself
Taking the ram out and trying different slots did the trick. The computer I was working on had mixed pairs of ram. One pair was 2gb and other 1gb. I reseated all of them in a consistent order and then the screen came on. Thanks for these troubleshooting tips. Grateful it wasn't anything deeper.
Linus, this fixed it. I didn't have the plug in the top left corner plugged into my PSU. Already wasted hours on this, but you saved me a lot more headache and frustration. Thank you!
Once I had a no-post situation. I just took out my graphics card for cleaning and my almost-one-year-old pc wouldn't startup. I removed all of my peripherals out of the back of the motherboard, started up and plugged them back in. That magically did the trick :)
I did every step as you did and no beep for me, the fan spins and dont stop. But no display at all but i can't swap the video card since I'm using the on board video . What can i do ?
Is the cpu supported, I'm having the same problem with a discreet video card and the only thing I can think of is that my cpu isn't supported, I check the manufactures website and needless to say my cpu is not support without a bios update so I either have to wait for a new bios chip to come (next week) or hope a pic shop in town has a spare cpu I could use to put in it and update the bios.
yes i finaly found the problem. at least the solution, not sure how thats help but i followed the trick that i saw on some forum that consist of scrubing the ram pins against my pant before puting it back in and... surprisingly it worsk just fine now thaks for the help, it's really apreciated.
the presence of more pins (psu wires) for a connector for same voltage (cpu uses 12 volt, the yellow ones) means that the device draws more load, like high end video cards like the one in the video vs lower end ones of higher wattage. i didnt understand your question thought, sorry
colo capacco oh no it’s fine, turns out my board has an incompatible bios. I have a ryzen 5 2400g, and I was using a 300 series board, when I needed a x470 chipset board
helped a friend build a pc, lo and behold it didn't post everything powered on all was plugged in. see, I have experience with Intel CPU and how they work with motherboards I didn't know that amd cpu's require a separate power plug not from the motherboard. 30 min of anxiety for nothing....
+Frederik Olsen my pc turns on then off instantly it didn't do this before i remove my i7 prossecor did i break the processor? because there is also no power given to the usb. and before a got it to stay on and the mobs light indicated it was on but the cpu was not heating up and there was no power distributed to my mouse and keyboard via the usb pleas help me i don't know what to do.
+Noah's Edge yeah that should work. Often the gpu wont work first up, you need drivers installed. So, plug the monitor into the motherboard and (if your cpu and motherboard support integrated graphics) it should display an image.
3:46 - CONDUCTIVE FACT - Some other motherboards have an onboard power switch (very handy) and it allows you to do it easily, while others you will have to use a conductive material (eg. a screwdriver) to connect manually the two pins for the power switch in order to get the system to start. When the system starts, if you hear a beep code, that means is A; we have power to the motherboard, and B; we have some kind of response from the system. Usually what that means is that the problem lies somewhere else. Removing memory gets rid of hearing the beep codes from the motherboard.
No offense, this is the only linus video that actually helped me troubleshoot a real life problem. All the build a million dollar 4k pc or we installed 2tb ram videos didn't made my life any better :P
