Any advice on what could be wrong?

Retroman09 · 1 Jun 2015 at 21:11

Hi,

I've built a new small form this evening but can't get the thing to boot.
Its got power but I'm just getting nothing out of it in terms of display from both the on board DVI and HDMI and the Graphics Card.

Bit puzzled as what to do next.

Any advice welcome.

Retro.

ginjaninja · 1 Jun 2015 at 21:21

remove as much as possible whilst testing...discrete gpu..multiple ram sticks...any and allb usb, hdd drives

Retroman09 · 1 Jun 2015 at 22:19

I've removed Hdd's and Gfx card and still getting no output. It sounds like it powers up for 10-12 secs, stops and then starts again but then is perm on. Just no visual output.

Could this mean my new mobo is faulty?

ExRayTed · 1 Jun 2015 at 22:22

Reset CMOS.

Retroman09 · 1 Jun 2015 at 22:26

Hmmm really struggling to figure out how to do that on this new mobo. Its a MSI H81I and It doesn't seem to have a jumper for CMOS reset I guess I could remove the battery? Is there a suggested length of time to do this?

Should a CMOS reset really be required straight out of box?

Retro.

new boy · 1 Jun 2015 at 22:36

Retroman09 said:
Hmmm really struggling to figure out how to do that on this new mobo. Its a MSI H81I and It doesn't seem to have a jumper for CMOS reset I guess I could remove the battery? Is there a suggested length of time to do this?

Should a CMOS reset really be required straight out of box?

Retro.

Not really, worth a go though.

what are all the components of the build?

Retroman09 · 1 Jun 2015 at 22:43

Ok well the new stuff I just bought is:
Intel G3258 CPU
MSI H81I mini ATX
Crucial BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz Ballistix Sport Memory Kit CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V
Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 2.5inch SSD

Old stuff is a Radeon 5700 series GFX card, 550W OZ PSU

ginjaninja · 2 Jun 2015 at 15:17

psu, cpu or mboard faulty then...
cpu or mboard pretty hard to troubleshoot
hopefully good chance of it being psu....as you wouuld expect mboard beeps.....

DaleTheWhale · 2 Jun 2015 at 15:21

Did you take the motherboard battery out?
Leave it out for 30 minutes.

Leave only 1 stick of RAM in the board, and try each stick in each of the slots.

Make sure no fans are plugged onto jumpers which aren't fan headers (I've done this

).

ExRayTed · 2 Jun 2015 at 19:48

Might be an idea to list the full spec

deano-5 · 2 Jun 2015 at 20:15

Maybe the bios doesn't support the cpu?

pastymuncher · 2 Jun 2015 at 21:03

^That would be my bet. The H81 boards were out way before the G3258 was released and the board may not have a compatible bios. You will need a older cpu to flash the bios but be extremely careful as MSI boards have a very high chance of being bricked when up dating the bios. It doesn't matter which way you do it either. It seems that they are unable or unwilling to fix this problem and it's been going on for years.