help! system does not power on

[zhuhangm]

I was building my system last night, when I had almost everything plugged in except for the RAM and V-card, I tried to power on, but it didn't work. There's totally no reaction when I pressed the power on button. Do I have to have Ram and vcard plugged in in order to get the power on?
I'm using epox 8dra+, antec amg1080 plus,
well there's one thing I'm worrying about which is that probably I cracked the CPU core when I was installing the heatsink...
Any thoughts?
Thanks

 

[SandLizard]

i'm pretty sure you should be getting power. i've never tried myself, but this might help:

If the computer beeps the same tone over and over again (Award/Phoenix BIOS) or beeps in series of three (AMI BIOS), then you may have a problem with memory. The most likely scenario is that the memory is not all of the way in the slot. JUST BECAUSE the white retention tabs snap up into the locked position, does not mean that the RAM is all of the way in the DIMM slot. The board can bow, and the DIMM may not be seated in the center. On AMI BIOS based boards, this error code is a series of three beep, three beeps, three beeps, in a continuous loop.

If the computer beeps one long beep and then two short beeps (Award/Phoenix BIOS) or eight short beeps in a row (AMI BIOS), this is a video card error. Check to make sure the video card is fully seated. If problem persists, try another video card. If the computer beeps a high tone, followed by a low tone, and then repeats (Asus motherboard), make sure that the CPU fan is plugged into the header labeled "CPU FAN" and not one of the other provided.

i take this to mean that it should at least power on and beep at you

(found at this site)

-sandlizard

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: zhuhangm
I was building my system last night, when I had almost everything plugged in except for the RAM and V-card, I tried to power on, but it didn't work. There's totally no reaction when I pressed the power on button. Do I have to have Ram and vcard plugged in in order to get the power on?
I'm using epox 8dra+, antec amg1080 plus,
well there's one thing I'm worrying about which is that probably I cracked the CPU core when I was installing the heatsink...
Any thoughts?
Thanks

The bare minimum for a computer to POST is a CPU, video card and RAM.

The CPU can work, but I've only heard about chipped cores working, nothing about cracked cores. Try the bare minimum and if it doesn't boot, get a new CPU, especially if the crack is from one side to another.

 

[KingofFah]

Even with the CPU not working, the power on will not even start the fans?

LOL, if I had of followed that advice, I would have ended up buying a new CPU, when it turned out that my case's power wire was bad (i use the reset button now 🙂 )