First boot problems

allewellyn · 5 Mar 2011 at 14:18

Okay, first boot of my machine:

CPU fan working, GPU fan working. Case fan half moved on power-on but didn't start spinning.

I've got nothing showing up on my monitor, and no lights showing on my keyboard either.

I hit the reset button, and got 4 long beeps.

allewellyn · 5 Mar 2011 at 14:31

It only did the beeps after I hit restart, not on the initial boot.

There was nothing in the manual that said 4 long beeps. For 'continuous long beeps' it says graphics card error.

I took out the graphics card and plugged the monitor into the mobo's DVI and booted again.

Same thing happened, except this time, the case fan was spinning normally. Still no signal on the monitor and no lights on the keyboard. No beeps. I hit reset, go the same beeps as before.

allewellyn · 5 Mar 2011 at 16:07

Windows 7 Home Premium
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
FX ATI Radeon HD 5670 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK)
LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

I stripped it all back down earlier on, it looks as though I've isolated the problem to a dodgy RAM stick.

It's started fine on the other stick (and is installing windows now). When it's done, I'll try the suspect stick one more time.

What's the OC returns policy should the stick turn out to be no good?

allewellyn · 5 Mar 2011 at 17:54

It seems to be running with both in now with no problems. No idea what was wrong before, but never mind