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New build - nothing on screen

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Ancalagon44

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Hi guys,

About a week ago I posted a thread about PC woes while doing an upgrade.

Anyway, so I ordered a new CPU to replace the one with the broken pin, and a new PSU. I connected everything together.

The PC is:
Athlon II X4 620
Asus M4A77TD Pro motherboard
Team XTreme 2 x 2GB DDR3-2000 low voltage kit
seagate 7200.11 750GB Sata hard drive
Club 3d 5770 overclocked edition
Corsair VX450 PSU
Old Coolermaster Wavemaster case (if it makes a difference).

The problem is that, when I push the button, it turns on, but nothing is displayed on the screen. I've tried only having one ram stick in, and trying different slots. Nothing. I've tried an old graphics card - my geforce 8800 gts - nothing. I've tried removing my SB XFi (oh yeah, thats also in the PC). Nothing.

All fans seem to be spinning. I've connected the PC speaker but dont hear any beeps on startup. I cleaned the heatsink fan (arctic cooling 64 pro v2) before installing it, and did reapply thermal grease. I've connected both the 4 pin and 24 pin power cables to the motherboard. The motherboard LED shows green (but I dont know exactly what this means other than that it has power) and the graphics card LED is on (its red, I dont think that means anything).

Any ideas? Is one or more of my components dead? I dont have any other AM3 mobos or DDR3 memory to test, I'm fairly sure the CPU is fine. I'm not sure whether anything is grounding the case. I just used normal screws to connect the motherboard to the risers, which are all metal I believe.
 
I would start with resetting the CMOS. Should be a button or a jumper near the battery - check your manual if you're unsure.

If there's no change, remove all of the RAM and power up to see if the motherboard responds. It should yell at you in one way or another. If you get no codes, it sounds like a dead motherboard.
 
You want to disconnect everything unnecessary and try to boot. Like goobernoodles said, if you turn it on with no RAM, it should at least beep at you.

Edit: Just saw that you already tried another video card. Without swapping parts, this could be the mobo, cpu, or psu. You should test it with the mobo out of the case. That will eliminate the possibility of grounding.
 
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Thanks guys, I'll try removing all of the ram and removing the motherboard from the case. PSU isnt likely to be the problem, but you never know. I forgot to connect the PCI E connector to the graphics card, and it squeeled, so part of the system is working. Sigh.... I just want a working computer.
 
kalrith said:
You should test it with the mobo out of the case. That will eliminate the possibility of grounding.
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Would he even be getting fans to spin up if there was a grounding issue?

The only time I had a grounding issue - it appeared that my power supply was dead. Turned out I had left a steel molex plug remover between the motherboard tray and the motherboard. lol
 
goobernoodles said:
Would he even be getting fans to spin up if there was a grounding issue?

The only time I had a grounding issue - it appeared that my power supply was dead. Turned out I had left a steel molex plug remover between the motherboard tray and the motherboard. lol
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Probably not, but it still wouldn't hurt trying it out of the case. If he has to RMA the mobo, he'll have to remove it anyways.

OP, have you tried the other PCI-e slot for your graphics card? Have you tried resetting the CMOS yet?
 
Yeah, I tried another graphics card on the first night. I reset the CMOS last night, still nothing.

I connected the PC speaker, error code is two short beeps which is short for memory parity error in the first 64k. Right now I'm hoping its the memory and not the motherboard which is kaput. It did complain when the memory wasnt inserted at all. So, I have it with me at work today, including the boxes for both the motherboard and memory. Hopefully the supplier will let me come round and swap the memory out. At the very least, I want to try another stick of DDR3 to see if it works.
 
Have you tried each RAM stick installed by itself in each RAM slot? It could be a bad stick of RAM or it could be a bad RAM slot on the mobo. By trying what I just mentioned you'll be able to see if just some of it is bad.

Also, make sure that the RAM is inserted all the way. I know this sounds like a really stupid thing to miss, but it's often the stupid little things that get missed in a computer build 🙂
 
Its working now.

I took it back to the supplier, and he tried a piece of memory that he had. It worked fine. So, we tried one of mine. Worked fine. Tried both of mine, didnt work. Then he realized one of the DIMMs wasnt inserted correctly, so he reinserted it. And it worked!

So yes, it seems like it was just memory not seated properly. Huge relief for me. Windows 7 is installed, Crysis is installed and runs great.
 
Ancalagon44 said:
Its working now.

I took it back to the supplier, and he tried a piece of memory that he had. It worked fine. So, we tried one of mine. Worked fine. Tried both of mine, didnt work. Then he realized one of the DIMMs wasnt inserted correctly, so he reinserted it. And it worked!

So yes, it seems like it was just memory not seated properly. Huge relief for me. Windows 7 is installed, Crysis is installed and runs great.
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so your Crysis is over with??
 
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