Help Please - P5B Deluxe not posting

Carol Steele · 1 Sep 2006 at 21:00

Today I received my P5B Deluxe, case (Thermaltec Tsunami), PSU (Enermax Liberty 620W) to go with my Conroe E6700. Also 2 Raptors (2 x 74Gb) and three Seagate Barracuda's (3 x 320Gb). Also 4Gb of Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX ( 2x2x1GB)

Put everything together - the only problem I had was seating the Intel fan on the Conroe, wouldn't seat properly some of the clips kept popping out - but finally got it seated.

The only problem is that it won't Post and I've tried in vain to find the speaker connection in the Tsunami case, but I don't think there is one - so I'm not getting any diagnostic beeps. No video out either - at least the monitor remains blank.

The power lights come on, the fans are all going, the hard drives spin up and the DVD rewriter lights up.

I think I have connected everything correctly - in the main EATXPWR connector there are 20 pins with another 4 pin plug which fits beside it. What I was not sure about was the EATX 2x4 plug. On the P5B motherboard there is a removeable cap which fits across 4 of the pins - I removed this and plugged in the two 4-pin (which are marked 'For CPU Only' on the cabling).

Anybody any ideas please :confused:

PS - apparently I am a thug

the.m · 1 Sep 2006 at 21:09

Reset the bios, try it with just one stick of ram, and one hard drive(boot one)

Carol Steele · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:16

I did that, but it still didn't work - so I took off the Intel CPU fan, messed about with it a bit more and then reseated it - this time it posted, so I'm on my way.

toucam · 1 Sep 2006 at 23:52

Your rig won't post because of Intel's heatsink? :eek:

I think it's the E6700 on strike begging for a more worthy heatsink to be on top of her

You know what I mean

Ditch it ASAP.

Carol Steele · 3 Sep 2006 at 18:16

Hi Toucam,

Which heatsink would you or others recommend??

The Thermaltake Blue Orb looks kinda cool - but would it do the job on the P5B D/L and the E6700??

I would like something which has a much better fixing method than what comes with the default Intel heatsink - which seems very hit and miss after trying it.

Socaddict · 3 Sep 2006 at 18:38

scythe ninja or infinity (if you can find it), tuniq tower, zalman 9500, artic cooling freezer 7 pro.

All of those are pretty good, and have their own pros and cons, I use the Zalman, purely for looks, really.

toucam · 3 Sep 2006 at 19:39

I use Scythe Ninja Plus and I can heartedly recommend it but you still have to deal with clips though :rolleyes:

I think most after market heatsinks use clips but they're very easy to install, took me a few mins to mount the heatsink on.
Otherwise ThermalRight Ultra-120 is also a very good choice, from the reviews I've read it beats Scythe Ninja 1 or 2 degrees.
Buy either one of those, you can't go wrong.

Carol Steele said:
Hi Toucam,

Which heatsink would you or others recommend??

The Thermaltake Blue Orb looks kinda cool - but would it do the job on the P5B D/L and the E6700??

I would like something which has a much better fixing method than what comes with the default Intel heatsink - which seems very hit and miss after trying it.

wizardmaxx · 4 Sep 2006 at 09:09

I am currently using the thermaltake sonic tower with a 120mm fan running at 5v (cant hear it) at idle it runs at 36c and full load at 47c. The cpu is a celeron 2.53 overclocked to 3.2ghz. I am waiting for the conroe to drop a bit in price so mabye ill bye one for xmas. if u have the space in your case i can recommend this heatsink

PikKOn · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:43

Isn't there a heatsink like the Coolermaster Jet series. They were a dream to install and am getting worried that Schythe Ninja is nothing like that. Does it use those clips like the Thermaltake Volcano series? They were an absoloute nightmare to fix. Had to get a blimmin screwdriver to get those clips down!