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Putting together new machine, not posting

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Vaktathi

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So after a couple weeks of shopping around and a week of waiting, I finally got everything for my new machine today, however after assembly, I can't get it to POST

It's a Phenom 9950 with an MSI K9a2 platinum 790fx with Powercolor 4870 1gb card and 4gb of DDR2 800 ram.


anyone got any ideas?

-thanks!
 
Does it do anything at all? Spinning fans or anything? Have you tried powering on with the motherboard outside of the case?
 
First step is remove anything non-essential to boot: use one stick RAM, GPU, keyboard/mouse and try to boot. If nothing, pull mobo out of case (place on the static sheet on mobo box) and try again. If you still get nothing (no fans etc) it's probably the motherboard or the powersupply. Do you have a backup PS to try?
 
Originally posted by: Vaktathi
Putting together new machine, not posting

So after a couple weeks of shopping around and a week of waiting, I finally got everything for my new machine today, however after assembly, I can't get it to POST

It's a Phenom 9950 with an MSI K9a2 platinum 790fx with Powercolor 4870 1gb card and 4gb of DDR2 800 ram.
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Remember this quote? :roll:

Originally posted by: Roguestar
AMD's CPUs are currently inferior, clock-for-clock to Intel's dual and quad core CPUs. You will need to spend more money to get a system that performs the same as a cheaper Intel system, and of course the Intel will likely overclock well out of your performance range then at that point. I can't really recommend an AMD system to someone who is spending money in the mid->high end price bracket.
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I know I may be teaching to suck eggs, but have you double checked all the connections on to the MB.

Does it boot, then turn itself off. Are there any bleeping noises on boot up, if so how many?

Do you have a floppy disk drive connected? My build wouldn't POST (I switched it on and it immediately switched itself off). After 30mins of searching realised that I had put the floppy disk interface cable in upside down (the FDD connector was keyed both ways). Mind you I had completed the build at 12am, so I was tired. That it is my excuse and I'm sticking to it 🙂

Any way the point of my blathering is that it is easy to overlook the obvious.

If all else fails, follow Denithor's advice and take everything out except the essentials; MB, CPU, HSF, RAM, case fans, PSU, HDD and graphics card (if your MB doesn't have onboard graphics).
 
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