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Won't Power On. OH NO!

M

Mundos

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Building a new system using the ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA motherboard and a AM2 3500+

i was working on it yesterday, having a problem getting the HD audio drivers to work.

powered it on today to try again, and no go. the power light on the front of the case is on...and ive tried swapping psu's, to no avail. same exact thing.

there's no swollen caps on the motherboard, and no burning smell.

what the hell is going on here???

HELP! this system has to be completed ASAP
 
Pull everything out of the case and lay it out on a piece of cardboard or other nonconductive surface, cable it up and see if it boots in minimal hardware config. A lot of times this kind of issue is a case short, or loose connection.
 
On another forum a guy over tightened a zip-tie and cut into the wire's insulation causing a short.
Point? It could be anything, so have it POST outside of the case.
 
What about a simple cmos reset via jumper or pop the battery? I had an ECS that did this occasionally when the PSU and Monitor were unplugged to work inside the case. I'd reset cmos and it would boot up fine in default bios. This was the only way it would boot up when this happened.

edit: Forgot to mention, if this didn't work do as markbnj suggests......a board short acts the same. If it boots outside the case. Start to check every stand off, I/O plate and pci/video slots and put it back together with minimum connections adding one at a time.
 
Originally posted by: Markbnj
Pull everything out of the case and lay it out on a piece of cardboard or other nonconductive surface, cable it up and see if it boots in minimal hardware config. A lot of times this kind of issue is a case short, or loose connection.
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Quoted for good advice, as well as others have posted.

Best way to test it is to take it completely apart and do a minimal boot. I'm talking keyboard, video-card, ram, cpu and that's it. The bare essentials to get the computer to post. If it does post, then start connecting the items one by one to see what is causing the computer not to fully boot up. Strange as it sounds, my CD-RW drive was causing my computer not to post due to CS (Cable Select) stalling the bios for some strange reason. Once I fixed that, all was well.

 
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