DH61AG will not post

[craigrph]

Hello,

I have a DH61AG miniatx that will not post.

Specs:
DH61AG
Patriot 2 x 4gb PC3-10600 1333Mhz Patriot
Core i5 3770s
Intel 335 2.5inch 240gb sata3 SSD
Loop 21 AIO L5 chassis
6230 Ieee 802.11n Bluetooth/wifi combo
LG super multi GT60N slim DVD/rw

Board will not post, led lights, CPU fan spins for about 1 second then nothing. nothing on monitor, no beeps, nothing

I have tried each of the following:

Replaced CPU
1 stick of ram, in each slot
different ram
reseating CPU and cooler with new thermal paste
booting with only ram, cpu connected
booting with board out of chassis with just ram and cpu
resetting cmos

all with same result

Key piece of info most of us leave out:

Fisrt boot was with a i5-3570 non s (ordered wrong cpu and did not check, doh!) the 3570 non s is a 75w chip. this board supports only up to 65w. Did that bork the MB? What else could be at issue??

I have been building PCs for 20 years but I am stumped. Unless I got a bad Mobo

Thanks

 

[coffeejunkee]

2 things:

- H61 is a Sandy Bridge era board, might have an old bios that doesn't support Ivy Bridge.

- What kind of different ram did you use? Intel boards are kinda picky, I usually stick to Kingston or Crucial, works everytime.

Don't think the 77W cpu messed things up, it's not like it's running full power from just booting.

Also, are you sure your power brick is compatible?

 

[Kenmitch]

Welcome to the forum

The motherboard could be defective I guess.

Intel states bios 0039 or greater is required for your chip....Dated 4-10-12 so I'd think the motherboard would out of box work.

If you can't get into bios to look then you can look at this on the board or box to see.

Need to look for the following:
G23736-400 or later,
G81491- All

 

[ShintaiDK]

I would guess missing BIOS update as well.

 

[jumpncrash]

we have a few thousand of these at work and they have issues running i5s without at least the 0043 BIOS. I would give it a try with just one stick of ram and another CPU, preferably an i3.

have you tried clearing the CMOS then removing the clearcmos jumper from the board to enable recovery mode?

Also, just to make sure, your fans are tuning off right after you power up right? because if it keeps running it could be a different issue.

 

[rob_lh]

Hello Craig, I am Rob L'Heureux, one of the engineers at Intel that's responsible for developing Thin Mini-ITX. I was googling around to see who's been trying to build their own AIO and landed here. I've built several of this specific one and chatted with the guys in the lab about what your issue might be.

My colleague suggested that, on D61AG there is a system fan and a CPU fan header. Did you make sure you connected the CPU fan header to the CPU fan header on board and not system fan header on motherboard? That could result in the behavior you are seeing as the system will think that there is no CPU cooling and shut/power down. This is an easy thing to overlook.

While they're right it could be a BIOS issue, if the motherboard was bought recently (i.e. the last 6 months), I'd expect the BIOS to be ok to work with 3rd Gen Core CPUs. Upgrading the BIOS never hurts, but I get that it has to boot to be able to upgrade the BIOS.

Lastly, I'll point you to our integration demo for this chassis in the hopes it may address any other questions. You can find it here: Loop LP-2150 AIO PC Integration. I hope this helps. If you have any more trouble, give me a shout @rob_lh on Twitter; otherwise I'll check in here later on. Good luck and I hope you like it.

 

[tweakboy]

Bios update then stock on bios dont oc. Lets make sure its stable running then you can fool around with that. gl