New system, no video/beeps on boot *FIXED*

[HauntFox]

I just assembled a system:

600W ULTRA power supply
ASUS P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi
Core 2 Duo E6600
Radeon X1900xt
2GB (2x 1GB) Corsair DDR2-800 CM2X1024-6400C4

When I boot my monitor doesn't display anything and remains with an amber colored LED, and there are no beeps. The fans spin and the power LEDs turn on.

I've tried removing both DIMMs, using only one DIMM, putting DIMM in a different slot.
Tried disconnecting hard drive and CD-ROM.

Both motherboard power connectors are in, and I tried both the 8-pin and the 4-pin option on the power connector by the CPU. The video card also has it's power connected and I tried 2 different cables for that too. I tried both DVI ports on the card, and tried a CRT monitor with the D-Sub dongle.


Now I don't know what to do next, I do not have a spare graphics card or CPU or RAM to try.
Any ideas?

 

[dfuze]

Is the BIOS set to onboard video or is it disabled?

 

[HauntFox]

I don't know, I can't see the BIOS settings cause I'm not getting a video signal.
I tried an old PCI video card and it's the same thing.
I tried clearing the CMOS too and that didn't help either.

 

[deathwalker]

You may well have a defective Power supply.

 

[Tsuwamono]

I dont think its the powersupply but yes that is possible. In my builds when i had a defective powersupply it just wouldnt do anything really

 

[dakotagts]

i had something simmilar and what i did was take the PSU and the mobo out and put in one stick of ram. Then checked to see if it would fire up using a jumper. Everything did and so I reset the motherboard and started checking things. It turned out that the power switch was reversed, if you have an ultra case the arrow points to the negitive line, at least in my Aluminus. that seemed to solve that issue and i booted up fine.

 

[HauntFox]

It powers on, it just doesn't do anything after that.
I ordered a cheap Celeron CPU to see if that will work in case it is the board with an old bios that doesn't support core 2, or if my cpu is dead.

 

[HauntFox]

Still have the same problem with the Celeron, so I packed up the board and am going to RMA it.

 

[HauntFox]

Got my replacement board today, same model. I hooked everything up, used the Celeron CPU first, it booted right up. So, so far it looks like it was a bad motherboard. I'll try the E6600 later.

And the E6600 works too \o/

 

[Dizzymon]

HauntFox,

I got a similar system (mine is not a Deluxe moboboard) that i'm building using the same specs as you with the exception of a Abit RX700 PCIE-256MB video card. Did you get your system to boot up? I just ordered the same memory modules and hate to have it crap out on me.

Thanks!

 

[dbravo223]

I have seen a lot issues regarding this, the funny thing is that it looks like it's always the same board ASUS P5B Deluxe. Making me think twice about ASUS.