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DOA ???

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seigfried

Junior Member
Building a new AMD Athlon 3200+ 64bit computer

Gigabyte GA-K8NPRO MB

(BTW ... this is not my first homebuilt and the others worked. In fact, I'm using one right now that I assembled.)

It won't boot ... at all ... and I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions. Here's what I know.

* All fans work
* HDD and CD are accessed (the LED's flicker at the right times)
* NO image, in fact NO signal to the monitor
(a word of explanation here ... I'm using a KVM switch, that makes it easy to reverse things and make sure that there really is no signal coming from the problem computer. Besides, I took the video card to another computer and tested it.)
* NO beep codes. The only thing I've heard this machine do is make one long beep when I first powered on. After that ... nada.
* MB LED lights up
* Power Switch (and Power LED) on the front panel works

There was nothing unusual that I could detect in the assembly. Is this thing just DOA or can someone think of something.
 
That would mean just unplugging the HDD and CD (those are the only other things plugged in right now) ...

justasec .... won't take a minute
 
Hallelujah unto the highest! (The highest being AMD, of course.)

While I was unplugging things, I decided to see what reseating the RAM would do.

AT LEAST IT BOOTS NOW!

Thanks for the nudge.

 
By the way ... I have two twinned Corsair RAM chips. The MB has three slots.

I had them plugged into 2 and 3, not 1 and 2. (I checked ... the doc says nothing about that.) Does this make a difference?
 
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