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need some major help with new rig

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entropy1982

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I am typing this on an iphone so bare with me 🙂

I built the following rig

ASus p6t
Corsair 850tx
2x evga gtx260 core 216
Velociraptor
1tb wd black hdd
Dark knight hsf
Cm 690 case
12 gb gskill 1600 ram
Lg 22x dvdrw

Also bought a dell 3007fwp-hc monitor

Turned it on. Went into bios changed date to correct one, it restarted told me to put in boot disk. I put in windows 7 rc disc pressed a key it didn't recognize it. Restarted, went into bios - changed legacy device to none changed boot order for DVD to be first save and exit.
Now it gets weird - still won't recognize the DVD. I hit ctrl alt del and my
Monitor is getting any signal. Keyboard lights aren't on nothing... But all the fans in the case are spinning and power is on.
I tried keeping power plug out for a few mins plugged it in... No change.
Even did the bios reset thingy with no luck
Tried difft monitor no luck
Tried eAch of the 4 hdmi slots... Nothing

What do I do? 🙁
 
Originally posted by: entropy1982
I meant monitor is NOT getting any signal keep in mind all the fans are spinning and that mobo lights are on
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sounds similar to my brother's problem in my thread below, unfortunately, no replies yet.
 
I would first verify that nothing is loose (cables, memory, video card, ...).
I would also try going to bare min components and see if it will boot.
 
Originally posted by: entropy1982
I meant monitor is NOT getting any signal keep in mind all the fans are spinning and that mobo lights are on
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If you aren't getting anything on the monitor how are you going into the bios?
Perhaps you mean that when you boot off the Windows 7 disk, then the screen goes blank?

First try setting the bios to defaults. If that doesn't work then:

All I can tell you is that I had a problem where I kept getting a bsod when I booted off my Windows 7 Rc1. Eventually I removed my geforce 8400 pci-x card and booted using the onboard vga and it worked fine. I then bought a cheap ATI card and it worked fine.
So, since that mobo doesn't have onboard video, try booting off a Windows XP or WinVista disk and see if that works. If it does, you may just have a hardware incompatibility with Win7.
You also may have a problem with your win7 disc, or a problem between the disk and that dvd drive.
 
Mystery solved guys... found the faulty part... it's my brain

I screwed in all 12 of those gold things that the mobo rests on instead of just the 9 needed for the screwholes... looked at the back of the mobo... 2 spots with almost "smudged" like appearance... almost like those 2 areas were scuffed against something... yeah

Explains why it worked for a few minutes and mysteriously stopped. I should have smelled for burnt parts right away lol

Thank you and sorry for wasting your time. Will RMA it and hope no other parts were damaged lol
 
Originally posted by: entropy1982
Mystery solved guys... found the faulty part... it's my brain

I screwed in all 12 of those gold things that the mobo rests on instead of just the 9 needed for the screwholes... looked at the back of the mobo... 2 spots with almost "smudged" like appearance... almost like those 2 areas were scuffed against something... yeah

Explains why it worked for a few minutes and mysteriously stopped. I should have smelled for burnt parts right away lol

Thank you and sorry for wasting your time. Will RMA it and hope no other parts were damaged lol
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I don't think this is RMA worthy do you? Isn't an RMA for warranty coverage of a failure from the company that made it ( Asus ); Not for user errors that destroyed the board?

Not trying to be the police but .... Honesty is the best policy.

pcgeek11

 
Originally posted by: entropy1982
Mystery solved guys... found the faulty part... it's my brain

I screwed in all 12 of those gold things that the mobo rests on instead of just the 9 needed for the screwholes... looked at the back of the mobo... 2 spots with almost "smudged" like appearance... almost like those 2 areas were scuffed against something... yeah

Explains why it worked for a few minutes and mysteriously stopped. I should have smelled for burnt parts right away lol

Thank you and sorry for wasting your time. Will RMA it and hope no other parts were damaged lol
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Motherboard doesn't just go bad like that.
I would check the dvi port on the card. I had the exact same problem and it was the dvi port on my LCD. Also, make sure the bios on the Asus p6t is recent as the D0 stepping won't work with the mobo.
 
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