New system will not power up

[Firebert05]

I just purchased a Gigabyte DS3 motherboard, Intel e6400 CPU, an Enermax Liberty 500w PSU and 2GB of PQI DDR2 667 memory. I emailed PQI and they assure me it is compatible. I know the PSU works because i have used it in another system without problems.

When I press the power button, I hear the fan in the PSU moving, and a "click" ever 10 seconds. Right after the click I can see the fan on the CPU heatsink try to move, then quit (not even a full rotation). I cannot even get power to my cd-rom to open it up. I tried reseting the CMOs, and trying 1 stick of memory at a time, in all of the DIMM slots. I also tried a different PSU just to be sure: Same result. Do I have a bad board? Bad BIOS?

Please help, what would you do? I'm willing to RMA for different memory and/or motherboard if necessary.

 

[Firebert05]

Anybody?

If it was you in this situation, would you get a different board/RAM or just replace it?

 

[Gorrillasnot]

Unhook everything including all power and data cables (except for the PSU to mobo connections) including hard drives, CD-ROMS, extra USB/front audio etc. cables, any PCI cards, unhook all the front panel connections except for the power (you can even unhook that if you want to manually short the power pins on the mobo).
Basically the only things hooked up should be the power to the mobo, the graphics card, the power switch, and the monitor.
Next I would power on to see if the fans would spin and check to see if the system would POST. If it managed to POST I would then start adding the rest of the stuff one at a time, powering on after each item, to make sure all is well until the last part is added/plugged in or whatever.

If the system will not POST or the fans don't spin in the stripped down configuration I would probably yank the mobo from the case and try to power it up out side of the case like on a desk or workbench.

If it still didn't work on the bench and you know for a fact that the PSU works from using it in another comp then I'd guess it would be the mobo. If I'm thinking correctly even if the RAM was to have compatibility issues with the mobo the CPU fan should still spin( at least I know it did on my nforce2 based system).

good luck

 

[ViviTheMage]

I was reading DS3 reviews on newegg.com and it looks like they have a lot of DOA DS3's ... not sure if it got over that stage or what, but you may have a low bios version.

There are a lot of threads regarding this issue on other forums, I think google would help you out a ton with that issue (if it is indeed the motherboard).