VirtualLarry
No Lifer
Trying to put together my WHS hardware. Chieftec Dragon case. Bought a EP35C-DS3R, Q6600, and 4x2GB DDR2-667 Kingston ValueRAM off of some guy on craigslist. He said that he tested it before selling it to me.
Anyways, I mounted it in my case, connected the old PSU (A SuperFlower 550W), and the floppy drive, and the DVD burner, and tried to boot.
It seems to go into a boot-loop, like when your overclock isn't stable and it reboots. But instead of booting into failsafe POST, it doesn't boot at all.
I tried a brand-new Enhance ENP-5150 500W 80+ PSU too, although mine have only 8-pin CPU plug, so I used an adaptor from molex to 4-pin CPU power.
I tried clearing the CMOS.
Still doesn't work. I know I don't have any extra standoffs shorting out, but I'm going to remove the mobo for testing anyways. I'm going to try my 600W Xion PSU, that has both native 4-pin and 8-pin CPU power connectors.
Edit: I have a speaker connected, and it doesn't make any beeps or anything. The power-phase LED array on the board lights up, and then goes off, and then lights up, and then goes off, etc.
Edit: FIXED. I changed out the video card for another identical one, still no post. So I pulled out all of the RAM, then I got 3 beeps, pause, followed by about 7 other beeps, before the board cut power and tried to reboot. So then I installed one piece of RAM into the first slot, and it booted. So I put RAM back, one slot at a time, and it booted each time.
So maybe the RAM got loose in transit?
Thank God, it's working now. I would have hated to waste $250 on broken parts.
Anyways, I mounted it in my case, connected the old PSU (A SuperFlower 550W), and the floppy drive, and the DVD burner, and tried to boot.
It seems to go into a boot-loop, like when your overclock isn't stable and it reboots. But instead of booting into failsafe POST, it doesn't boot at all.
I tried a brand-new Enhance ENP-5150 500W 80+ PSU too, although mine have only 8-pin CPU plug, so I used an adaptor from molex to 4-pin CPU power.
I tried clearing the CMOS.
Still doesn't work. I know I don't have any extra standoffs shorting out, but I'm going to remove the mobo for testing anyways. I'm going to try my 600W Xion PSU, that has both native 4-pin and 8-pin CPU power connectors.
Edit: I have a speaker connected, and it doesn't make any beeps or anything. The power-phase LED array on the board lights up, and then goes off, and then lights up, and then goes off, etc.
Edit: FIXED. I changed out the video card for another identical one, still no post. So I pulled out all of the RAM, then I got 3 beeps, pause, followed by about 7 other beeps, before the board cut power and tried to reboot. So then I installed one piece of RAM into the first slot, and it booted. So I put RAM back, one slot at a time, and it booted each time.
So maybe the RAM got loose in transit?
Thank God, it's working now. I would have hated to waste $250 on broken parts.
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