slayerized
Junior Member
I posted this in the General Hardware section; however I am not sure whether that is the right place, so I am reposting the message here. Sorry to anyone who has to go through this twice.
I am trying to build a C2D based system and I got all my parts together last week. I am having some trouble powering on the system. The PSU fans don't seem to go on and I don't think there is any power supply to the board. I tried the age old trick to see if the PSU may be functional; by shorting the green with the ground and then the fan does go on. I have a Gigabyte-965P-DS3 board with E6600 and Zalman cooling. The RAM i am using is G.Skill DDR2 800: F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK. I also have a Sapphire Radeon 1950 pro graphics card.
I have also tried the following:
- Checked the jumper connections from the case for power and reset
- Assembling the bare minimum components outside the box; no avail
- Placing one module of memory at a time
I really don't know whether the problem is with the PSU, memory or the board. Will the PSU turn on irrespective of whether the memory units are good/bad? Is there any other way to diagnose the part which is failing. Any help/inputs would be appreciated. This is my first build in a long time (the last being a Celeron system way back in 2000 i guess).
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I am trying to build a C2D based system and I got all my parts together last week. I am having some trouble powering on the system. The PSU fans don't seem to go on and I don't think there is any power supply to the board. I tried the age old trick to see if the PSU may be functional; by shorting the green with the ground and then the fan does go on. I have a Gigabyte-965P-DS3 board with E6600 and Zalman cooling. The RAM i am using is G.Skill DDR2 800: F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK. I also have a Sapphire Radeon 1950 pro graphics card.
I have also tried the following:
- Checked the jumper connections from the case for power and reset
- Assembling the bare minimum components outside the box; no avail
- Placing one module of memory at a time
I really don't know whether the problem is with the PSU, memory or the board. Will the PSU turn on irrespective of whether the memory units are good/bad? Is there any other way to diagnose the part which is failing. Any help/inputs would be appreciated. This is my first build in a long time (the last being a Celeron system way back in 2000 i guess).
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Please do not multi-post threads. Thanks for understanding.
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