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Yipes help, PC doesn't boot...

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Shyatic

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Okay hiya all...

I've got a Chaintech CT-7NIF2 motherboard, with an athlon xp 2000+ mobile processor.

I plugged it all in, hit the power button, and well... nada. The fans start spinning, the hard drive makes noise, but I don't get any output. Additionally, the CDRom's light stays on constantly, so I can't eject it or anything. I have systematically tried to yank everything off the PC, including the ram... but that's not it. I swapped the ram on the board with ram from my PC and nothing.

Any suggestions? Please help!
 
Did you make sure your Video card is fully seated? This has happened to me in the past two times and this was always the answer for me.
 
How about give us a full spec list on the whole system, including the brand and model of the power supply, the case, and the memory modules 🙂
 
Trouble shooting guide compiled by One Lazy Guy from AMDMB.com forums

1 Nothing but the power supply, CPU,installed on the motherboard, plug your power cord in and turn power on.
2 You should hear a series of long beeps & all your fans should be turning.
3 The board is looking for memory.
4 That tells you your 'board, CPU & power supply are working.
5 Unplug power cord (very important an ATX power supply always has power to it when the cord is pluged in).
6 Install 1 stick of RAM in the first bank, it should be marked either 0 or 1
7 Plug your power cord in and turn your power on.
8 You should get 1 long and 3 short beeps. It will be looking for the video card.
9 That tells you your PS/'board/CPU/RAM are working.
10 Unplug power cord.
11 Install your video card and plug your monitor into your video card.
12 Plug your power cord in turn your power on.
13 You should get a power up test which is 1 short beep.
14 You should see your CPU/RAM/video reconized on the screen.
15 You will get a disk boot failure because you have no drives installed. In this case every thing you have installed is working.
16 Shut machine down and unplug power cord.
17 Install all your drives, set your BIOS up and install your operating system.

Hope this might help trouble shoot the problem.
 
Well... I yanked EVERYTHING minus the processor... and turned it on. Black screen. I guess it's the motherboard?

Gotta get an RMA i guess? 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Scribe
Well... I yanked EVERYTHING minus the processor... and turned it on. Black screen. I guess it's the motherboard?

Gotta get an RMA i guess? 🙁
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1. Does it beep?
2. If you removed everything (including video card) you would get a blank screen.
 
It has onboard video, and that doesn't work either. I don't get a beep because there's no PC speaker to hook it up to... it's in an HTPC case.
 
Originally posted by: Scribe
Well... I yanked EVERYTHING minus the processor... and turned it on. Black screen. I guess it's the motherboard?

Gotta get an RMA i guess? 🙁
Click to expand...
Are you using the onboard video, or are you using an add-in AGP card? If you've got an add-in card, you may need to use the onboard video first, go into the BIOS, and tell it to give priority to the AGP slot instead of the onboard video. That was the case with the Shuttle MN31N that I built recently.
 
Its a long shot, but is the voltage switch in the back of the PSU set to 115? anything else and it wont boot, but youll still get fans spinning...
 
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