DOA ???

[seigfried]

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.

 

[Crusty]

try it with just the Vid Card and RAM in and see if boots.

 

[seigfried]

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

 

[seigfried]

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.

 

[seigfried]

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?