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i upgraded my power supply to a corsair rm1000e now my computer will not post, only thing i can go by is the error lights on the motherboard which are on for the cpu and the dram.
i have checked everything is seated properly and that the cables in side are pushed in correctly. i am at complete loss as to why it is not working any help please.
 
Modcon said:
i upgraded my power supply to a corsair rm1000e now my computer will not post, only thing i can go by is the error lights on the motherboard which are on for the cpu and the dram.
i have checked everything is seated properly and that the cables in side are pushed in correctly. i am at complete loss as to why it is not working any help please.
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Take the PSU out and put your old one back in to see if your pc boots
 
I replaced all of the old cables with new ones. i am going to put the old psu back in i got a feeling my new one is not compatible with my PC, thanks for all your help guys much appreciated.
 
i have reset the cmos (took the battery out) was going to use the jumper but i could not because there appears to be no little plastic bit, i have reseated the ram and tried one stick at a time still the same. have not reseated the cpu yet, all with my old psu inside.
 
Modcon said:
i have reset the cmos (took the battery out) was going to use the jumper but i could not because there appears to be no little plastic bit, i have reseated the ram and tried one stick at a time still the same. have not reseated the cpu yet, all with my old psu inside.
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Been many years since I saw jumper caps
On a motherboard
Just bridge the pins with a screwdriver etc
Assuming there's no clear cmos button on that board
 
thanks for the information on clearing the cmos but unfortunately the pc will still not post, not sure what to try next? don't really want to reseat/replace the processor.
 
Assuming it worked to begin with
Either it's coincidental that something went wrong
As you changed psu
Or it's something that happened as you changed psu

Next?
Can't really see reseating the cpu helping
Unless you did something to the cooler
While changing psu
But the other option
Would probably be remove everything
And breadboard it outside the pc case
So redoing the cpu first
May be easier
 
i have reseated the cpu and installed a spare air cooler that i had also removed all my rgb lighting from the case to narrow the problem down a bit, still the same lights on the motherboard also noticed the hdd light stays on at startup maybe i should reseat my nvme drive? any suggestions welcome.
 
Never had a nvme m2 become unseated
And got 5 of them lol
But if its easily reachable
Can't hurt to try

When you tested 1 ram module
Did you try all the ram slots?
Sometimes will need to be
In a specific slot

When you reseated the cpu
Did you carefully examine the pins?
Either on cpu
Or motherboard socket
Depending which cpu
 
Modcon said:
i have reseated the cpu and installed a spare air cooler that i had also removed all my rgb lighting from the case to narrow the problem down a bit, still the same lights on the motherboard also noticed the hdd light stays on at startup maybe i should reseat my nvme drive? any suggestions welcome.
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Disconnect everything and try again.

Remove your hard drive, etc. try one stick of RAM (a go to favourite of mine for forcing a BIOS to think about what components are connected).

It might be a bent pin on the CPU that’s not making contact with the socket and leading to errors for the RAM or hdd but it’s hard to tell.

You’ve done a lot of good basic fault finding so it might be a faulty component at this point.
 
i was just reading a post that was in the power supply's part of these forums and it talked about using the right cables (new ones) then i realized that i completely forgot to say that when i installed the new power supply i used a corsair custom cable starter kit (type 4 cables) along with some of the new cables that came with the new power supply, witch has led me to think that maybe i have accidentally fried something assuming the cable kit was not compatible.
 
Modcon said:
i was just reading a post that was in the power supply's part of these forums and it talked about using the right cables (new ones) then i realized that i completely forgot to say that when i installed the new power supply i used a corsair custom cable starter kit (type 4 cables) along with some of the new cables that came with the new power supply, witch has led me to think that maybe i have accidentally fried something assuming the cable kit was not compatible.
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You Would have to check
The corsair compatibility chart
And yes need to be 100% sure about using
Cables that didn't come with the psu
 
yes i did check the corsair compatibility chart before i purchased the cables they are type 4 that match the psu the only problem was the RMe 1000 was not on the chart just the RMe 750, 850, and 1200:confused:.
 
Hoping I can jump in on this, I'm in the middle of a new build with the following

X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI
RM1000E PSU

and like yourself when i turn it on I just get a Yellow/Red error light indicating bad CPU and Memory
 
I did this recently and went through all the rigmarole above, turned out I’d not plugged one of the leads in.
Worth double checking for simple mistakes.
 
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