What the HELL am I missing here??

[Brutuskend]

So I put together this new system last night and at first it wouldn't even turn on.

This morning it finally started after I played around with it some.

I went to the BIOS and checked a few things, and I noticed one of the CD roms wasn't showing up. I noticed the ribbon cable wasn't plugged in all the way so I shut it off and plugged it in.

Now it will NOT boot.

The power light on the monitor just keeps flashing.

I cleared the BIOS, no help.

I've tried unplugging the CD roms, no help, the hard drives, no help, the floppy, no help. I've tried 2 different video cards, no help. Another power supply, no help, another CPU, no help. I've tried different cables, no help.

The only thing I haven't tried is another stick of memory, this is the only one I have that is DDR PC 2700, although I do have a set of DDR400, but I doubt it's the memory.

There is a jumper to clear everything if a bad OC has been done, I even cleared that, no love....

What am I missing here?

Bad monitor?

Thats about the only thing I haven't changed....


M/B is a MSI M7NCD

 

[Brutuskend]

I just tried my new DDR400 memory.

Nothing...

 

[Brutuskend]

BTW: I also tried a PCI video card.

No love

 

[Frown66]

Your motherboard might be shorted. Check to see if there is an extra riser that might be on the motherboard tray sticking out touching a part of the motherboard with no holes for a riser. Just remove it to fix the problem.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Frown66
Your motherboard might be shorted. Check to see if there is an extra riser that might be on the motherboard tray sticking out touching a part of the motherboard with no holes for a riser. Just remove it to fix the problem.

I thought of that and looked it over. (Not that well though...)

I'll look closer.

Thanks

 

[Brutuskend]

I pulled the M?B out, checked everything for grounds, looked good.

Still nothing....

I'm about ready to try another M/B

 

[jbh129]

try to boot with just a hd, video card and 1 stick of memory

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: jbh129
try to boot with just a hd, video card and 1 stick of memory

I tried that.

I just swapped mother boards and now everything is peachy.

I guess the M/B was just gunny bagged.


Bummer, I just got it awhile back and this is the first time I've tried to get it going.

 

[jaedaliu]

Originally posted by: jbh129
try to boot with just a hd, video card and 1 stick of memory

and cpu.

but from the sounds of it you know what you're doing and the motherboard is probably bad.

 

[jbh129]

Originally posted by: jaedaliu

Originally posted by: jbh129
try to boot with just a hd, video card and 1 stick of memory

and cpu.

but from the sounds of it you know what you're doing and the motherboard is probably bad.

I thought that went without saying...

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: jbh129

Originally posted by: jaedaliu

Originally posted by: jbh129
try to boot with just a hd, video card and 1 stick of memory

and cpu.

but from the sounds of it you know what you're doing and the motherboard is probably bad.

I thought that went without saying...

DAMN, so THAT was the problem, no CPU!

 

[DfiDude]

Thats why u dont get Msi Get teh dfi w00t

 

[Thurgo0dy]

Originally posted by: DfiDude
Thats why u dont get Msi Get teh dfi w00t

now you're back to DFI?

 

[DfiDude]

Yup

 

[Brutuskend]

Well the board was a trade out for some other stuff I had.

I got this and some other stuff for a set of MTB wheels I had for sale...