- Sep 11, 2012
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Hi all,
Just finished putting together a new build (my second ever so I'm pretty inexperienced, made my first pc after fantastic help from some people on here).
Specs are as follows:
Power Supply Corsair Builder Series CX 500 Watt ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze
Case BitFenix BFC-CLI-300-KKLS1-RP - Colossus M Mini ITX
Motherboard MSI H81I LGA1150 Mini-ITX
Storage SanDisk Z400s 256 GB
CPU Intel i5 4690 Quad Core
GPU Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 970 OC ITX
Memory Exceleram 2x4GB (from old system)
I set up the whole system and it didn't boot so I've gradually been taking things off and seeing if that had any effect (I'm aware that I should have done it the other way around and breadboarded etc but too late now )
I assembled the PSU, CPU with fan and motherboard only - outside of the case and tried to get it to boot by putting a screw driver on the power switch pins. Still nothing at all, no beeps, no fans spinning at all.
I assumed that a DOA power supply was the most likely (as this happened the first time I build a pc), but the paperclip test does get the fan to spin, so it isn't completely dead at least.
The CPU socket does seem to possibly have a couple of slightly bent pins, but that is my looking for literally any reason as to why it might not be working, and from what I understand that wouldn't prevent a system from booting at all, if that were the case.
I don't have any other PC parts with me, but I do have a power supply at home that I could plug in to test components (but won't have access to that for a week or so).
Are there any other possibly problems I can test for?
Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks.
Just finished putting together a new build (my second ever so I'm pretty inexperienced, made my first pc after fantastic help from some people on here).
Specs are as follows:
Power Supply Corsair Builder Series CX 500 Watt ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze
Case BitFenix BFC-CLI-300-KKLS1-RP - Colossus M Mini ITX
Motherboard MSI H81I LGA1150 Mini-ITX
Storage SanDisk Z400s 256 GB
CPU Intel i5 4690 Quad Core
GPU Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 970 OC ITX
Memory Exceleram 2x4GB (from old system)
I set up the whole system and it didn't boot so I've gradually been taking things off and seeing if that had any effect (I'm aware that I should have done it the other way around and breadboarded etc but too late now )
I assembled the PSU, CPU with fan and motherboard only - outside of the case and tried to get it to boot by putting a screw driver on the power switch pins. Still nothing at all, no beeps, no fans spinning at all.
I assumed that a DOA power supply was the most likely (as this happened the first time I build a pc), but the paperclip test does get the fan to spin, so it isn't completely dead at least.
The CPU socket does seem to possibly have a couple of slightly bent pins, but that is my looking for literally any reason as to why it might not be working, and from what I understand that wouldn't prevent a system from booting at all, if that were the case.
I don't have any other PC parts with me, but I do have a power supply at home that I could plug in to test components (but won't have access to that for a week or so).
Are there any other possibly problems I can test for?
Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks.