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NEED HELP. New comp. turns on, won't boot up.IMPORTANT UPDATE

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MogyBear

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Hey. I put everything together, and when I turn it on, the CD ROM drive stays green, none of the front panel LEDS turn on, but the fans are turning. Also, no signal goes to the monitor. What is happening? Thank you!
 
Most likely the floppy disk connector cable is connected the wrong way (also check the ide cables).
If that doesn't solve the problem, just unplug all of the cables from the hard drives and floppy, after that
it should boot to bios...

Other problem areas might be faulty processor or faulty memory, but it should beeb on those.
 
Don't worry about the led's cause the cables may be in backwards but they don't need to work.
The ones you need to worry mostly are the ones for power, reset, and maybe a couple of other ones.
Considering you are getting power to turn the fans, it seems that the power is connected correctly so I would say it has to do with your drives and devices.

If you get no video, take the card out, make sure the connectors are clean and replace. Make sure all cables for hard drives, floppy, cd and the like are connected properly, and make sure they are jumpered correctly too.

Try running your machine with the bare minimums (ie. cpu, video, ram, 1 hard drive and floppy or cdrom). Then go from there.
 
Had the same problem for about two weeks. Took the whole thing apart and put it back with no luck. Decided one day to put a video card I have that is about 6 years old and it booted up fine except that it would lock up as it got into XP. So i went out and bought a new card yesterday and it works just fine now.
 
blah. It is not working. I tried everything... except disconnecting ALL cables. Lemme try that. I'll get back to you. Thanks again.
 
OK, I disconnected ALL of the ide cables and floppy cables. Now I'm gonna take the video card out of this computer and try it in the new one. Hope it works.
 
OMFG i am PISSED! Well at least i know it is not my video card. I have that in the old system working fine right now.
 
Boot with only a processor and heatsink, ram, and video card. Don't hook up any drives at all, it will still post.Boot it on a cardboard box too🙂
 
Yep, I did that, with no drives connected AT ALL. The same thing happens. Wait , you mean put the mobo on a cardboard box and connect it to the PS and boot it? Are you being serious? Well, I am gonna test my RAM and possibly my processor on my friend's comp. and see if either of those are the problem. Thanks!
 
yes he was serious about the cardboard box... it eliminates the shorted out Motherboard fiasco.. that I have heard about more than twice...
Just do it... processor, hsf, ram, video card, powersupply, see if it will post... just connect the stuff listed
 
I've had similiar problems in the past with systems. Once it was the psu. One time it was the ram. One time it was the motherboard. I would try changing the psu first, then ram, and if it doesn't work then, then the mobo or processor is faulty. I know it's frustrating as hell, but this is probably the last resort. It would help if you could post the parts you are using.
 
AMD XP 1900+ palamino retail
soltek sl-75drv4 kt266a
512(x2)MB Mushkin basix pc2100 ddr
msi geforce 4 ti4200 64mb
Enlight 72500AZB case w/ 300w psu
 
I am currently having the same problem... its not fun... I need to try that cardboard box thing though!
 
Have you tried swapping out some of the pieces yet? It's the ONLY thing it could be. I know nobody likes to think they have a defective product, but something is defective in your setup to keep it from posting.
 
One stick of RAM works, one does not (I tested them at my firend's house... the bad ram booted up to bios but did not go to windows). I have tested it with the good RAM in my system alone and it does not work. I think that the motherboard is messed up. It COULD be the processor, but I think it's the mobo.. do you agree?
 
From what you've done so far, there is no way to eliminate the cpu or mobo. If your stick of ram works in another comp, then I would say its prob fine. Now you have to do the same with the cpu and mobo, until you identify the bad part. Another thought, are you sure the mem is compatible with your mobo, ie some mb's don't accept ECC RAM, or once i tried puting tiny BGA sdram in my mobo and it didn't work, even though it worked in my GF's comp.

I've run into this many times building comps, or having a part die. You just have to work through your parts systematically. Its not too bad when you have spare parts handy, but if you don't well...

Once, I suspected i had a dead slot 1 celly, but had no other comp to test it in, so i actually sneaked into the research lab i was working in (when I was in college,) on a Sat. and tested the CPU in a computer there I knew to be a slot 1. Turned out it was bad, and I sent it back for a replacement. (hee hee, don't try this at home, was pretty dumb!😀)

If you can't find ways to test, you may just have to send parts back for replacement, or you may be able to take them to a comp repair shop to be tested. Good luck.
 
Also, do what everyone said and start with the barebones (PSU, mobo, cpu, ram, vid) Make sure everything is well seated. (Another prob I once had with that cheap-ass ECS mobo, everything worked, but vid had to be seated just right or no sig would go to monitor.)

Does your comp beep? (most beep when self-test is complete, so if it beeps but nothing is on the screen, the comp is working but the vid card or agp connection is bad.) If it never beeps, then the the POST doesn't complete therefore you have a prob with RAM\CPU\MB (or rarely, the PSU.)
 
Thanks a lot- I did try it with just the barebones and it does not beep, so there is a CPU or mobo problem... I will try to test the CPU but I don't know if I'll be able to since none of my friends want to take out their CPUs that are already in... for now, I think I'm gonna say it's the mobo because I bought these parts used from a guy and they all worked- together - for him... Well, I will let you know what happens. Thanks again!
 
I just read your specs again and noticed you had a soltek board. I had a soltek board that was very selective of PSUs that I tried with it. I had 3 power supplies and only one worked with the soltek yet all 3 psu's worked on an Epox board I had. It wasn't the same model you had, but this could be the issue. See if one of your friends will let you unplug their psu so you can plug yours up just to see if it posts.
 
Hm... OK, I'll try that if I can. I really need to get started, though, because I need to do start my science project ASAP...
 
UPDATE: Got 1GB free RAM from Mushkin, new mobo. Same other parts. STILL THE SAME F*CKING PROBLEM! SO it HAS to be the processor, because I was just using the video card in my other computer. I need to RMA the processor to AMD now, DAMNIT. That will take another two weeks I think. If anyone here works with AMD, please email me at morganharris@email.com or PM because I need a new processor ASAP for my science project! Thanks.
 
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