Newly built system won't turn on

[dawnoffatex]

Specs, for reference.

EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card

OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply 100 - 240 V

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive (Primary program drive)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (file storage)

Creative 70SB046A00000 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series


The ATX 24 is installed. ATX 8 is installed (CPU1/2) The auxillary graphics connection is installed, the PCI-E direct cable is installed.

The motherboard lights up, but the fans wont come on or anything. Just lights up in the corner by DIMM slots. No noise no nothing. The PS does NOT have a voltage option.

 

[Dutchmaster420]

im guessing you put the switch on the back of the psu to the on position right....id just go over all the wires again make sure there all connected properly, make sure the memory is inserted correctly


i would maybe try again after doing the above with one hard drive in....no sound card


im obv no an expert just trying to help as much as i can....im sure someone else will have better info for ya


good luck

 

[dawnoffatex]

Ok I actually got it going. Turned out to be a wrong pin on the small 9 pin 4x2 connections with power/led/reset etc.

Now I have two issues however,

One - my computer keeps hitting 85c on the processor and auto shutting down. The fan is installed correctly. Can I prevent this?

Two- despite the fact that it recognizes my cd drive just fine, and my drive is spinning away + light on, i cant seem to boot from CD in order to install an OS.

 

[AlgaeEater]

Is your heatsink sitting flush on the processor? Did you use too much thermal greese by accident? (Too much is just as bad as none, if not worse than none!)

Is your BIOS set to boot from CD first before hard drive?

If these questions are basic to you or you already have done the above steps, my aplogies. Just throwing out suggestions.

 

[Dutchmaster420]

my guess would also be to make sure the processor/heatsink is inserted correctly

 

[kedlav]

Reseat the HSF. Working out how to mount the Socket 775 ones can be a pain the first time or two, make sure each leg CLICKS. Don't forget to clean off the old thermal grease. Only a grain of rice sized amount of thermal grease is necessary, more is a bad thing, not a good thing. Check to make sure the fan is working properly.

For the optical drive, check to make sure the drive isn't first in the bios. If it isn't, try putting it on a different cable and connect it up to a different port if possible. If not, borrow an old optical drive and check to see if it always does this.

 

[myocardia]

Umm, you don't need to reseat your heatsink. As a matter of fact, don't remove it. Just remove all of your cards, and remove the motherboard from the case, with the processor and heatsink still attached. Then, press really, really hard on each leg of the heatsink, until it snaps into place. Then, reinstall everything. It's hard to believe how much force it requires to seat an Intel heatsink, but it probably requires 7 or 8 lbs. of force on each leg, if not slightly more. Just keep pushing (on the ones that aren't fully seated) until they snap.