Build issue... help appreciated

Magic Man

Magic Man

Magic Man

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Just built a system:-

ASUS P5K (Premium)
E6850
Tuniq Tower
GTX 8800
2 x SATA drives, 1 x SATA optical
etc.

Built all, turned on first time and everything is fine. Went into BIOS, monitored temperatures for a few minutes, all seems fine. All drives seen okay in BIOS, drives on 1 and 2, optical on 5

Left all BIOS at default except changed the boot order from floppy, hd, optical to optical, hd, disabled ready to install the OS.

Saved and exited. It rebooted but came up with the JMicron check saying no drives were detected.

Okay, I rebooted in order to check the BIOS but now everything powers up okay, all fans going etc. but I get no POST beep and seemingly no video output. Have reset a few times, turned power off, restarted etc. but I don't get any POST beep or any other activity.

Any ideas...?
 
everything was fine on the first boot, all fans work, the motherboard light comes on okay.

Can the optical be connected to the red sata connectors or must it go on black?
 
The optical drive should go on the black connector, hard drive on red.

Have you tried resetting the CMOS? Is that what you meant when you said reset?
 
No, I haven't reset the CMOS yet - will move the optical to a black connector - thout they were just a second controller apart from the normal Intel supported?
 
Okay, cleared the CMOS and also disconnected the second drive and optical.

Restarted okay to the reset BIOS. Just set the clock and then reboot - same thing again, no beep and just a black screen.

Must be something that is set as default after the initial bios run that is causing something.

However, on a whim, I pulled out the X-Fi PCI card that was sitting in the bottom slot. Reboot - BIOS beep, normal POST etc.

Turned off, plugged second drive and optical back into same SATA connectors they were previously in and rebooted again. BIOS beep and POST as normal.

Therefore, must be some BIOS issue with the X-Fi card (I did disabled the onboard sound on the very first boot). Must be something that is being detected but on saving the updated BIOS settings the reboot then hangs.

Anyone have any ideas? It's currently installing XP at the moment but, when everything is in place and okay I'll try plugging it back in and see if it does the same.

I only have the bottom slot free since the PCI slot above it is too close to the GTX card to allow the back vent adequate air for my liking...
 
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