DS3 Problems

[Matteysan]

Hi there,

I built a new system for a friend today the specs are

Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3 Intel P43
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB)
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 X 2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI
Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply

So I built it all up like usual, Powered it on & then there was no display, everything else in the case were powered on, But there were 3 red lights on the graphics card. So my first thought was to try one of the spare PCI-E graphics cards we had lying around, Same again no display.

So I thought it may be the wolfdale not working properly with the DS3, So I grabbed my E6300 out of my PC & put that in there. Again no display with any of the graphics cards. I then tried 1 stick of ram, Again no luck.

So we brought his graphics card up to my house to try & straight away it was working. Boggled my head it really has. I'm almost 100% certain that it is the motherboards PCI-E slot that is borked.

Any ideas?

 

[Matteysan]

Can you try a different psu just to rule out your current PSU.
Are Power connectors plugged into the motherboard including the 4 or 8 pin for cpu power.

I got the board model wrong in that post it is actually the GA-EP45-DS3R (rev. 1.0)
Well I plugged another psu in the PC as well that didn't work, When the power supply is plugged into the motherboard with the 8pin adapter it won't power on but it will when the 8pin isn't in the board. Same with both power supplies.

 

[Matteysan]

Yeah both CMOS reset & I always build out of the case first incase anything like this happens. Guess it is definitely the board thought as much it would be. thanks RJC