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gigabyte boards do wierd things, i have a corsair and a gigabyte p45 and sometimes it doesnt boot up it just maxes out all the fans and does nothing, other times it turns on spools the fans for 2 seconds then cuts out, around 5-10 seconds later it boots up.
yet it always remembers my overclock and runs stable when booted :S
yet it always remembers my overclock and runs stable when booted :S
Had email back from Seasonic Europe:
Dear Michael,
We did have some compatibility issues with some GBT mainboards. Please let us know your location and I will ask our local support team to further assist you.
Kind regards,
Walter
Quite immpressive for a weekend. I'm wondering though, shouldn't OC be sorting this? I've posted in the technical help section and will phone them Mon. What I dont want is to be without a PS while it gets tested/repaired, I'd like to return it, get my money back and buy another make of PS.
I believe There is a 28 day period for returning goods for refund. My problem may be that I purchased my rig over a two month period, to spread the cost. I bought a case, PS HD and two optical drives last month and the remainder last week.
Dear Michael,
We did have some compatibility issues with some GBT mainboards. Please let us know your location and I will ask our local support team to further assist you.
Kind regards,
Walter
Quite immpressive for a weekend. I'm wondering though, shouldn't OC be sorting this? I've posted in the technical help section and will phone them Mon. What I dont want is to be without a PS while it gets tested/repaired, I'd like to return it, get my money back and buy another make of PS.
I believe There is a 28 day period for returning goods for refund. My problem may be that I purchased my rig over a two month period, to spread the cost. I bought a case, PS HD and two optical drives last month and the remainder last week.
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i wonder, why OcUK dnt inform ppl abt this prob,????
How long were you without a PS the first time?
Won't they give you the option of a different brand?
I had this problem on an old build, turned out the graphics card had died, system wouldn't power up without a gfx card...rma'd the gfx card installed new card and booted up ok....had same problem as yourself, fans just twitched then nothing...
Sorry, but you're not going to get very far with no graphics card attached. It's probably bleeping (three short bleeps and one long bleep), but you'd never know because you have no speaker.
Absolute bear minimum required to get a PC to boot;
1 motherboard with 4/8 and 20/24 pin connections to PSU
1 CPU
1 stick RAM
1 GPU
Without that you'll not get anywhere. And a speaker is your No. 1 friend when it comes to diagnosing a no-boot.
And building PCs while drinking is a sure-fire way to FUBAR the whole thing.
I'm not entirely sure this isn't a wind-up/troll thread.
Absolute bear minimum required to get a PC to boot;
1 motherboard with 4/8 and 20/24 pin connections to PSU
1 CPU
1 stick RAM
1 GPU
Without that you'll not get anywhere. And a speaker is your No. 1 friend when it comes to diagnosing a no-boot.
And building PCs while drinking is a sure-fire way to FUBAR the whole thing.
I'm not entirely sure this isn't a wind-up/troll thread.
You do not need a graphics card to enable a system to boot up or not.
You could even make the system turn on with no RAM, yes it wouldn't boot, but it would stay on. Which is a lot more than it is doing now.
He doesn't need a speaker, the board has an LED with a hex readout of where it is in POSTing. Regardless, this specific PSU will power the board for a split second - half a click on the fans then nothing, it will then need to be powered down completely at the wall socket to discharge the caps before another attempt. As the thread linked states, it appears to be an known issue with this combination (ie Seasonic acknowledge it). It's nothing to do with ram, or graphics cards, or fans.
I have that board too and the LED Poster is useless for BOOT diagnostics. It certainly tells you when in the BOOT cycle the system has stopped, but the speaker tells you what's stopping the BOOT.
Define BOOT then. If you unplug the 4/8-pin Intel power lead the system will start and spin all the fans forever, but it's certainly not BOOTing.
You could even make the system turn on with no RAM, yes it wouldn't boot, but it would stay on. Which is a lot more than it is doing now.
I'm sorry, but you're arguing a point that can't be won. He's trying to diagnose a non-booting PC with no graphics card? If you can diagnose that then you'll make a fortune.
Many Gigabyte boards don't spin the fans at boot-up with PWM turned on. It freaks a lot of people out, but if the CPU isn't hot enough to trigger the minimum start voltage on the PWM fan then the fan will just tick away. Given that he has no graphics card, the BOOT process will terminate at that stage and the system will hang. I've just tested it and without a GPU it just twitches the CPU fan header and stops. If he had case fans attached to the other three pin connectors then they will run permanently, but I don't think he does.
Do you have this PSU? No. There isn't any power to make the speaker squeak, because the PSU has shut down.
Actually, I do have one of those PSUs. No problems there either. And I have various Corsairs that are also Seasonic made and they all work fine too.
You can argue this as much as you like, but a PC without a graphics card isn't ever going to boot up and someone posting after the thick end of two bottles of wine probably isn't in the best condition to be building PCs.
Get a speaker then, or post codes are going to be rather absent. No graphics card and no speaker, nothing on the screen. What the hell...
WJA96 vs Delvis will be neatly solved as soon as you start using the term POST instead of boot where appropriate. I'm sure you both know this.
Its green to black to jump start the psu
Glad to see someone else doesnt think much of the gigabyte post lcd thing.
WJA96 vs Delvis will be neatly solved as soon as you start using the term POST instead of boot where appropriate. I'm sure you both know this.
Because it happens to a relatively small number of people, and appears to have been resolved with newer models of the psu anyway?
Its green to black to jump start the psu
Glad to see someone else doesnt think much of the gigabyte post lcd thing.
All components are now together inside the case. As I think I state elseware I can get the machine to start normally after a lot of switching the PS on and off a many of times.
When running it is very stable, and can survive a restart, but not a shutdown/restart. Prime95 runs no problem, highest temp achieved 61.
When running it is very stable, and can survive a restart, but not a shutdown/restart. Prime95 runs no problem, highest temp achieved 61.
Indeed. I apologise for any lack of precision in my language. I am indeed being indescriminate in my use of the term BOOT.
Seasonic are pretty much the best PSUs on the market, hence I have a quite a few of them. I also like Tagan, which I know is not a unanimous opinion on OcUK forums. I would avoid the OCZ's as they all seem quite loud to my ears.
If it was me, I'd get another Seasonic. I have the 850W modular one and it works fine with my UD5.
If it was me, I'd get another Seasonic. I have the 850W modular one and it works fine with my UD5.