New system but no graphics

Hi, I have just bought an MSI motherboard. an enhanced graphics card, new memory and upgraded CPU using a different socket.. My old graphics card has a standard VGA port and and HDMI port and the VGA one was the one I used for the monitor, this fitted in a short type AGP slot.
My new graphics card has a longer slot, 2 HDMI but no VGA ports. I purchased a HDMI/VGA adaptor but, although the machine seems to be booting, I get no display on my monitor so I am unable to enter the BIOS setup. I can rip out the new system and re-install the old one but I wondered if there are any suggestions how I can get this new system working?
TIA

 

OK, I needed to read that at least 5 times, slowly, and now I'll ask this.

Are you still using the prior OS/HDD from the old PC? Or do you have a new hard drive, and operating system as well?

I'm guessing you mean DVI, instead of VGA on the new card, because they are two distinctly different signals, and VGA requires a signal converter box to be made into a DVI/HDMI signal. On an old AGP card I would expect a blue VGA connector, with round pins, and on PCIe cards an off white DVI connector, with rectangular pins.

Did you purchase a converter? Or an HDMI/DVI adapter?

Are there integrated graphics on the motherboard, or do you only have the graphics card?

What type of ports are on the back of your monitor? I'll wager a guess it's a flat panel, and not a VGA CRT (tube type).

By the way, your new card is PCIe, and that would be the reason for the longer slot.

 

A few more suggestions,double check then triple check all your connections common mistakes are forgotton motherboard power 'molex or 4pin ATX' and on newer motherboards forgotton CPU power '8 pin', forgotton video card power 'PCI-E 6pin' ,CPU fan in wrong header or not connected so check it spins up,if you haven't upgraded your power supply it could also be that your old PSU cannot power your new system,post the rest of your specs including the wattage of your power supply.

Make sure your video card is in the X16 PCI-E socket and the fan spins up when you turn on the computer,use one stick of memory in dimm 0 until you get it to boot,remove the hard drive you don't need that yet also remove all add in cards and disk drives.

Once you have this minimum configuration find the Cmos battery and remove it for 20 secs 'with the power disconnected' then replace,reconnect the power and try to boot.

 

bg i feel your pain i am having the exact same problem that you are... i just wish my motherboard had a built in chassis speaker so i could at least hear the beeps so i knew where to even start

 

ok im stupid took it down again and i figured it out... put the wrong cpu in.. i put in a single core instead of the dual core i have.. gosh all that for something so silly...