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Gigabyte 8PE667 Pro (new purchase) - No beep on startup?? (SOLVED)

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MadAd

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Ive just assembled my latest PC based on a Gigabyte 8PE667 Pro and on booting it wont go. Ive stripped out every card and cable and still nothing.

Its got a P4 2.4B in it, 512mb of samsung ram (both brand new), the atx12v and the usual large atx cable is plugged in, plus the power on, reset cables & speaker on - thats it, nothing else is connected. No beep on startup, and if I connect my Radion 8500 theres no video at all.

The PSU was from my system that i just removed from the case to fit this in and is a newer Q-Tec 550W jobbie and worked well with the old mobo/cpu

When power is applied, the cpu fan spins and the ram light comes on. If I remove the ram and boot, it gives the repeating bleeps (as it should) telling me theres no memory - so the speaker is ok.

Ive tried removing the mobo battery - nothing.

Any suggestions please? Im well narked about it - the shop the mobo came from is 35 miles away and is a dumb reseller unlikely to help on the technical side.

Thanks anyone that can help - why no beeps?
 
I had a new board with a really stiff AGP slot once, and didn't get the card down into both rows of contacts. Maybe rock the card front to rear and push hard to ensure it's in there all the way. If that doesn't help, try taking the board out of the case, lay it on cardboard, and try starting it with no drives, just video, RAM, CPU and keyboard. Good luck! 🙂
 
Thanks a lot for the quick reply there mechBgone - ive found the problem, panic over (phew) ...... While checking the datasheet on the ram at samsungs site, i noticed that 2 of the pins had a slight discolouration on them, barely noticable (and coincidentaly approx the shape of a fingertip) - a quick wipe clean with a wet rag and Boom!! beep and the video fires up - YAY!!!

Since I AWAYS hold my sticks by their ends only when inspecting/fitting, I can only thank the vendor for handling his ram with grimey oily fingers - grrrrrrrr

Thanks all for reading 🙂
 
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