I built my own pc, but.......

[regnarenol]

I built my own pc but it won,t start. After i press the power on button I hear a long beep all the time. No sign on the monitor. I do hear the sound of the processor and the fan. I checked all cables. What can I do.

 

[IamDavid]

Sounds like an IDE cable is backwards or the ram isn't in all the way..

 

[office boy]

Make sure you memory is in right (pushed in all the way), and your video card is seated.

(Just one long beep?)

 

[kebb]

... how are theese IDE cables by the way surposed to be inserted into the motherboard? Is there some big rule about in which side the pink color is surposed to be or is it just "let's guess" or 30 minutes reading the motherboard manuel?

 

[Hector13]

<< ... how are theese IDE cables by the way surposed to be inserted into the motherboard? Is there some big rule about in which side the pink color is surposed to be or is it just &quot;let's guess&quot; or 30 minutes reading the motherboard manuel? >>



I am not expert, but I believe IDE cables for harddrives are just straight pass-thru type connectors meaning that as long as you are consistant (ie pin 1 on motherboard goes to pin 1 on harddrive), it does not matter which way you put the cables. I think the standard method is to put the red (or pink) side on the side of the connector where pin 1 is located. If you look closely at your mother board, one side on the connector will have a small 1 written next to it (as will one side on your harddrive).

However, I think floppy cables for older 5 1/4 drives had a twist in them meaning that they only worked if inserted correctly.

Anyway, I am sure someone else knows for sure.

 

[LordSandMan]

The way the IDE cables are supposed to be hooked up is pink stripe goes to pin 1 on the Mobo to pin one the hard drive. Master should normally be hooked up to the last connector, and slave should be hooked up to the middle. The end of the cable that has the 2 connectors closest together should go to the drives.

 

[chansen]

In a nutshell, you've likely either not seated something properly (CPU, RAM, PCI/IDE card, etc.) or hooked up a cable backwards. My money is on the RAM. Take the motherboard out where you can access everything easily, and make sure everything is pushed in all the way. Properly supported from behind, you need to push quite hard to fully insert some components, just don't let the motherboard flex much.

Regards,
Craig

 

[Passions]

Also check if the voltage on your power supply is set on the correct setting. I think it is 115v for US, I beleive.

 

[Jeff H]

Long beeps are telling you that either your memory (my guess) or video card are not seated properly. I recently had this happen to my main system, when I swapped out two 64MB SDRAM sticks for one 128MB SDRAM stick, and a new p.s. Upon first boot all I got was a stream of steady long beeps. I pulled the memory, reseated it, pulled the video card, reseated it, and a successful boot.

 

[Mutilator]

When in doubt rip it all out... and then put it all back in again
Most likely something is lose and you'd fix it by doing this.

 

[damien6]

You could get the same symtom when you install Rams that aren't supported by that motherboard/chipset.