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Problems with a new build.

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AcydRaine

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Ok, I got my new board, put everything together. Get my liquid cooling hooked up. Connect all the power cables. I turn on my new rig, it powers up just fine, everything is working it seems. I get no beeps and I have no video. What can be the issue? I have tore everything down, ran with 1 stick ram, no ram, different video cards....etc. Everything seems to be working, just no beeps, and no video. Cleared Cmos. At the moment I have the battery out to see if I can reset it that way.

Anyone have any ideas?!?!

Specs are:
MSI 650i SLI-FI
Core 2 Duo E4400
GSkill 2gig Cas4
XFX+/or Evga 7600GT
Thermaltake Purepower 500w
 
You may have an optical drive or hardrive cable backwards. I would disconnect them all and try posting again. If that doesn't work, I would check your case for a speaker lead to the motherboard. With beep codes, you can narrow the problem down. Most motherboards, except some ecs, have a 4 pin speaker lead.
 
I have everything hooked up correct. Speaker from case, used another little speaker I had with my Lanparty NF4-D, niether brought a beep. The CPU is not even getting hot at all as it is running. Took off the CPU block and ran it for about a minute, it never even got warm.
 
Your description of the problem sounds exactly like what happened to my system several weeks back. Turned out to be a bad processor. Do you have another processor you can swap in to verify?
 
Originally posted by: Deinonych
Your description of the problem sounds exactly like what happened to my system several weeks back. Turned out to be a bad processor. Do you have another processor you can swap in to verify?
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Or both RAM sticks bad... (try a different brand RAM)

Or a bad Video Card... (try a different card)

Or a faulty PSU... (see above...)

Or a bad motherboard...
 
I have just thought of something...

Are you sure you haven't experienced any leaks in your cooling system...? And everything has been installed properly with the thermal paste and all the pins engaged...?

I know that liquid cooling yields great overclocking results, but personally I don't believe in the mix of water (or any type of liquid) and electronics...

Just one drop away from disaster...
 
I would try posting out of the case with cpu/heatsink, one stick of memory, and video. I would also reconnect the power supply leads, or try a different one. I've never had a brand new board doa.
 
Trying new PSU today. No, sadly I do not have another CPU or I would have tried that just to verify the board worked. No leaks in cooling. Yes it does seem like a step from disaster, but the sound is so soothing. 🙂 I have it narrowed to the CPU/Mobo, or PSU. No way both of the video cards are bad. It doesn't even get to the point where the ram or video cards are a factor. Hopefully I can narrow it down more today with this PSU. After that I buy a E2140 for testing purposes, then RMA board.
 
AcydRaine,

Hate to even bring this up, but do you have: 1, the 4 or 8 pin CPU power lead from the PSU hooked up to the motherboard; or 2, the 4 or 6 pin power connector hooked up to the GPU?

One other possibility: if the motherboard has an 8 pin CPU power connector and your PSU has a 4 pin, it is possible to put the PSU 4 pin power lead into the wrong 4 holes in the 8 pin mobo connector.

Hope I'm not insulting your intelligence - I've just seen it happen before, just trying to hlp out.

Noel
 
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