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new build not powering up all the way

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ThePiston

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A friend of mine building his first PC is pretty upset. He's had this problem for over a week since we thought his mobo was bad and sent it back to newegg. He got his new mobo and still the thing doersn't post. When he first tried 2 weeks ago, he could get Windows to half-install until the thing would reboot. Now it won't even turn on. The LEDs come on, but no fans. Here's what we've ruled out as the cuplrit:

CPU - works in another system
mobo - this is 2nd one
case - works in another system
RAM - i have tried 2 separate sticks in all slots
BIOS - fail safe not working either (when we got it to post last week)
video card - we have not tried another since his old one won't fit

AND finally power supply
he's got 300W from old system, he's tried "another one from work" and still nothing.

I think he need smore power, what do you think.
 
It would help if we knew more about the specs 🙂 If you have time, could you hit Quote and edit this template thing with his info:


  • Power supply Antec TruePower 430
  • Motherboard Asus K8N-E Deluxe
    • Revision 1.03
    • BIOS 1005
  • CPU Athlon64 3000+
    • Core 130nm Clawhammer
  • Memory (2) 512MB Corsair XMS 3200C2 modules
    • Voltage Manually set to 2.7 volts
    • Timings AUTO, results in 2-3-2-6 @ 200MHz
  • Primary video card ATI Radeon 9800Pro AGP 8x
  • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
  • PCI slot #2 empty
  • PCI slot #3 LeadTek Winfast TV/FM tuner card
  • PCI slot #4 Creative Audigy 2 ZS
  • PCI slot #5 LSI Logic Ultra160 SCSI
  • PCI slot #6 (board only has five PCI slots)
  • Boot drive 160GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Serial ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 SATA controller
    • Jumper setting not applicable (SATA)
  • Additional hard drive 40GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, primary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Additional hard drive 18GB Seagate Cheetah 15k.3
    • Interface SCSI
    • Controller hosting this drive LSI Logic U160 card
    • Jumper setting SCSI ID 01
  • Optical drive #1 NEC 3500A DVD burner
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Optical drive #2 Lite-On combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Slave
I bet you're correct on the power supply though. Why do people do that to themselves 😕
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
It would help if we knew more about the specs 🙂 If you have time, could you hit Quote and edit this template thing with his info:


  • Power supply generic 300W
  • Motherboard Shuttle AN35N Ultra 400
    • Revision ans00q, one away from newest which is R
    • BIOS q
  • CPU XPM 2400+
    • Core 130nm
  • Memory (1) 512MB Corsair value 3200
    • Voltage auto
    • Timings AUTO,200MHz
  • Primary video card ATI "generic" 9600LE
  • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
  • PCI slot #2 empty
  • PCI slot #3 empty
  • PCI slot #4 empty
  • PCI slot #5 empty
  • PCI slot #6 empty
  • Boot drive 80GB WD 7200.7
    • Interface IDE
    • Controller hosting this drive windows/mobo
    • Jumper setting not applicable (SATA)
  • Additional hard drive n/a
    • Interfacen/a
    • Controller hosting this drive n/a
    • Jumper setting single
  • Additional hard drive none
    • Interface n/a
    • Controller hosting this drive n/a
    • Jumper setting n/a
  • Optical drive #1 32Xcd-rw
    • Interface IDE
    • Controller hosting this drive n/a
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Optical drive #2 none
    • Interface n/a
    • Controller hosting this drive n/a
    • Jumper setting n/a
I bet you're correct on the power supply though. Why do people do that to themselves 😕
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I have to jam for work shortly, but here are my contributions for now:

1) make sure he's getting the ATX12V cable plugged in. If he hasn't encountered a system that uses one, and his old PSU doesn't have the plug, then he may not realize it's even needed.

2) could you clarify whether the drive is an 80GB Western Digital, or a Seagate 7200.7? And it isn't SATA, is it? Because the AN35N Ultra doesn't have an SATA controller 😕


If it's a Western Digital-brand IDE hard drive, then have him pull the jumper cap off its jumper block. That sets it to Single Drive mode rather than Master, Slave or Cable Select, and this is a peculiarity of WD drives that they want Single Drive if they don't share their cable with another drive.
 
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