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Afternoon boys, help me out here I've got a confusing one.
I've got 2 CPUs and 3 Mobos I've saved from PCs that have kicked the bucket and I'm trying to put together something usable from the spares.
All 3 Mobos are H61M chipset, 1 MSI and 2 Gigabytes. The chips are an i3 and i5 (2500 I think).
I'm basically trying to power the components up (with memory therein) and hard drive connected to start building them and see if they still work. But any combination of the CPUs and mobos (and trust me I've tried all of them) result in the same thing... Initial power to the case fan and PSU, but the chip's stock cooler struggles to spin. Might spin for a few seconds, then stops and then starts again.
What am I missing here? Surely it's user error but I've built a few PCs in my time and can't recall such a problem before.
I've got 2 CPUs and 3 Mobos I've saved from PCs that have kicked the bucket and I'm trying to put together something usable from the spares.
All 3 Mobos are H61M chipset, 1 MSI and 2 Gigabytes. The chips are an i3 and i5 (2500 I think).
I'm basically trying to power the components up (with memory therein) and hard drive connected to start building them and see if they still work. But any combination of the CPUs and mobos (and trust me I've tried all of them) result in the same thing... Initial power to the case fan and PSU, but the chip's stock cooler struggles to spin. Might spin for a few seconds, then stops and then starts again.
What am I missing here? Surely it's user error but I've built a few PCs in my time and can't recall such a problem before.