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New System Woes

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maverick2219

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In an attempt to do my cousin a favor I have been trying to put a system together for him. I used the 'Building a better budget PC' guide as a reference and decided to go with an AM2 solution. Mostly because he's probably never going to be upgrading and he wanted to keep it at $600 or below.

I went with the system that has the Biostar T550 motherboard on this page.

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2791&p=2

The only difference from the reference system and the system I have thus far is the memory. In a misclick I ordered a single stick of OCZ Gold 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400). I got all the parts, put everything together, attempted boot and.... no POST. Double checked all connections and still no POST. There are two LED's on the board and they were indicating an inability to detect the video card. I sent it back RMA. With replacement I still get no boot. RMA'd the motherboard, nothing.

I'm really at my wits end here. On a curious note, when hooking up the PC speaker the beep tones seem to indicate a memory problem, while the LED's are sticking with a VGA problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions, or experience with this board? Is the problem the memory? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
Have you tested the memory in another machine? How about the processor? I know this sounds weird, but its best to have a machine you can test these things out on when building a machine from scratch. Technically what you need is a way to test all the pieces your placing within the motherboard. Break everything down, so that you place the cpu in the mobo, see if it recognizes it, then add memory, read out the BIOS, see if it sees the memory properly, make sure the BIOS is set to default before doing all this, then set it as you go, one piece or peripheral at a time.

~wnied~

 
check the video card to see if it has a molex or other type of power supply connection. if so, it must be connected to the power supply (i can't tell from the pix in anandtech's guide that you linked).
 
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