ITS WORKING!!! It was both the cpu and the power supply, i was switching out everything indiviually so i kinda forgot it couldve been two things. Thanks for all the help you guys gave, some really great suggestions for if this happens to someone else.
I'm thinking now it's probably the CPU, I'm gonna borrow one from a friend in the morning and see if that works. Otherwise I'll have to get it professionally fixed :( , I hate failing, but I want it to work.
no, I've tried with a Radeon 9600 Pro, TNT2, and Geforce 3 MX, all with no luck. And I got them all out of working machines so I know they work. I'm pretty tech savvy and cant really think of what it might be. I'm hoping Best Buy will try to repair it if i bring it in, even though it wasnt...
I'll go try that a couple times, i might have been a bit gentle seeing how its a fairly high-end card (at least compared to the others i own)
EDIT: sadly thats not it, I may just take it to the computer shop in the morning if i cant get it to work
No onboard video (I have a biostar m7ncd pro), I will however try out my geforce 3 card now.
EDIT: No luck with this card either. Since the speaker beeped when i removed the ram, does that eliminate either the mobo or the cpu as the problem.
I just finished putting my PC together and am having a problem. My monitor comes up saying that there is no signal. I have switched all the ram sticks, so that is not the problem. I have tried 2 different monitors (that i know for a fact work) no luck. My video card (Radeon 9600 pro) was...