New Asus P6T won't power on - Help

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I bought this Asus P6T Deluxe V2 from OcUK last week, got a D0 stepping 920 and 6Gb OCZ Blade from MM. Assembled it all in my case, connected it all up, powered on and it won't post.

The power and reset buttons on the mobo light, a press of the power switch and my fans connected to my PSU spin up, mobo powered fans don't move, gfx doesn't spin up either.

1 question I do have is the 8 pin ATX connector for CPU power had a blanking piece over half of it, I removed this and used an 8 pin connector. There is no mention of this being 4 pin in the manual, it just says 8 pin ATX. Was I wrong to remove the blanker?

Any help would be great.

Thanks
 
Taking a guess here as I wont see this board until the morning. Have you got the ATX and Aux ATX plugged into mobo if its present? Memory seated properly?

** Top left of board should be a 4 pin connector, do you need this plugged in for your setup? **
 
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You need to plug in the 8 pin connector, readin the manual at the moment. States the system WILL NOT boot without it plugged in. You can find this on page 2-36
 
rexehuk said:
** Top left of board should be a 4 pin connector, do you need this plugged in for your setup? **
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rexehuk said:
You need to plug in the 8 pin connector, readin the manual at the moment. States the system WILL NOT boot without it plugged in. You can find this on page 2-36
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If you actually read the OP he has done what you've suggested already :rolleyes:

To OP:

You were not wrong to remove the blanks. The board should be more stable, and clock higher with the full 8pin connector plugged in.

I would try reseating everything, and a CMOS reset.
If that fails, try absolute minimum hardware, 1 stick of ram etc.
if all this fails, the mobo my well have to go RMA,
 
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Its an Asus Xonar.

I can't make this mobo boot from my usb pen, its set as the 1st boot device but it seems to ignore it and try to boot from my SSD then complain that its not got an OS on it.

edit - had to unplug my ssd and now its booted from the usb, lets hope it works now.
 
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Ok I found if the drive wasn't connected during post you can't install to it. Eventually it decided to boot from usb all by itself but then when I reboot and go back into the bios there is no longer the option to boot from hdd.

This board is doing my head in now, I can't make it boot from HDD at all now, the option isn't there.
 
Well when going to update the bios I missed pressing del key in time and it decided to boot from the hdd all by itself. I updated the bios anyway. If I go into the bios now, guess what? No option to boot from my usb stick again, what a surprise. This board is annoying, so tempted to RMA now and order something else but at the same time I dunno if I can be bothered, another board might be even worse!
 
How is it going Mr x - I hope you’ve had more luck?

This mobo is top of my list to order within the next 2 weeks - it would be good to know if these were just unforeseen problems that were easily corrected - that we all run across from time to time with a new build - or that the board has annoying quirks that need to be ironed out?
 
All sorted.

Rang OcUK support, a very helpful person told me to press F8 during post. Then I could select what I wanted to boot from.

Up and running at 4.2Ghz now.
 
How odd the soundcard prevents the system posting at all, especially when both from the same manufacturer. Gald you got things working. I've noticed a few odd quirks with my P6T Deluxe V2, but for the most part I am very pleased with it.
 
There's something in the manual about auto recognising Flash drives smaller than 512MB as floppy drives, and those above as HDD. You can force this in the BIOS too.

However, even with a 32MB Flash Drive and forcing BIOS to treat as FDD, it still appears as a 'standard' disc in Windows!

Seeing as you were booting from Flash already, I just wondered if you have come accross the issue or something similar? I'd love to be able to see my flash drive as a floppy in Windows, and then to format it as a boot disc and therefore doing away with for the need of a floppy drive. I thought the 'force FDD' option was going to do that, but it doesn't :(
 
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