No video at all from motherboard...

[subspace100]

I've just assembled what is intended to be a fileserver using an ASRock H67M-ITX/HT motherboard. This board is advertised as having on-board video. Here's a summary of the key components:

Case: LIAN LI PC-Q08B
Ram: 8Gb (Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-PinDDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800))
CPU: Intel Pentium G840 Sandy Bridge 2.8GHz LGA 1155 65W
SSD: 64Gb Crucial M4
HDD: Haven't connected that yet

When I power it up, the fans work but there is nothing on my monitor (it doesn't even come up from sleep mode). I've tried switching out different RAM, confirmed that the monitor is good, cable to monitor is good, tried DVI and VGA connections, even obtained a second identical model motherboard and tried that.... In all cases, no video...

Could the RAM type be the problem? ASRock says the board is compatible with DDR3 1333, but I've installed DDR3 1600...

Thanks in advance for any advice!

[DarKSeeD]

Re: No video at all from motherboard...

Have you tried a Clear CMOS? Remove the battery without the power cord plugged for about 30s then try to power the board.

[wazza300]

Re: No video at all from motherboard...

you could try with just one stick of ram installed? see if anything shows up,your 1600mhz ram will run at standard 1066mhz anyway until you adjust it or use xmp,but it still could be incompatible