Hello everybody. I just built my PC last night, installed my AMD Phenom 2 X4 965 black edition into my MSI 890GXM-G56.
I installed everything into the case correctly, and tried turning it on for the first time, and I get no POST beep or anything until I remove the ram, then I get the system clearly telling me it needs ram. So I ruled out the ram as the culprit. I tried removing my GFX card and everything, switching my cords over to the VGA, DVI and HDMI on the main board, and nothing working.
I figured I must have a short someplace and took the mobo completely out and "rebuilt it" and made sure the IO Shield was fully nestled correctly with every contact touching the board.
I unplugged everything down to the bare necessities, no HDD and no disc drives, to see if I could get it to boot into the bios that way and still nothing.
I am not sure what else to do. Could the CPU not be recognized by the board? I made sure all the pins lined up and it dropped right into place and I locked it in and applied thermal paste and know it has to be good.
I have tried troubleshooting the best I know how, and still it escapes me as to what the problem could be.
This is my first complete PC build from the ground up, I have worked on PC's for the past 6 years, always swapping parts, and have a good understanding of the hardware. If anybody could please point out what I am doing wrong I would be most appreciated.
Specs...
Rosewill Challenger gaming PC case
MSI 890GXM-G65 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHZ Quad core processor
XFX Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 gfx card
8GB Gskill Ripjaw ram
500GB Hitachi HDD
Raidmax RX-530SS 530w PSU
I installed everything into the case correctly, and tried turning it on for the first time, and I get no POST beep or anything until I remove the ram, then I get the system clearly telling me it needs ram. So I ruled out the ram as the culprit. I tried removing my GFX card and everything, switching my cords over to the VGA, DVI and HDMI on the main board, and nothing working.
I figured I must have a short someplace and took the mobo completely out and "rebuilt it" and made sure the IO Shield was fully nestled correctly with every contact touching the board.
I unplugged everything down to the bare necessities, no HDD and no disc drives, to see if I could get it to boot into the bios that way and still nothing.
I am not sure what else to do. Could the CPU not be recognized by the board? I made sure all the pins lined up and it dropped right into place and I locked it in and applied thermal paste and know it has to be good.
I have tried troubleshooting the best I know how, and still it escapes me as to what the problem could be.
This is my first complete PC build from the ground up, I have worked on PC's for the past 6 years, always swapping parts, and have a good understanding of the hardware. If anybody could please point out what I am doing wrong I would be most appreciated.
Specs...
Rosewill Challenger gaming PC case
MSI 890GXM-G65 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHZ Quad core processor
XFX Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 gfx card
8GB Gskill Ripjaw ram
500GB Hitachi HDD
Raidmax RX-530SS 530w PSU
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