new build boot problems

WarBird · 10 Jan 2008 at 18:33

my friend was doing his first build today, got everything built, but it won't boot, the mobo light is on but it will not turn on at all.

ye think anything is just doa?

any suggestions?

WarBird · 10 Jan 2008 at 18:57

just got him to "jump start" it and nothing happened, psu dead then?

K.C. Leblanc · 10 Jan 2008 at 21:15

Could be almost anything.

1. He did built it with stand off right?
2. Disconnect everything that's not essential. All the drives, extra cards, front panel stuff and see if it still does it.

If your still have trouble you need to try substituting to remaining components with known good parts. Sounds to me like either a dead PSU or mobo (I had a similar prob bought a new PSU and it turned out to be the bloomin mobo).

WarBird · 10 Jan 2008 at 21:28

K.C. Leblanc said:
Could be almost anything.

1. He did built it with stand off right?
2. Disconnect everything that's not essential. All the drives, extra cards, front panel stuff and see if it still does it.

If your still have trouble you need to try substituting to remaining components with known good parts. Sounds to me like either a dead PSU or mobo (I had a similar prob bought a new PSU and it turned out to be the bloomin mobo).

yea that was one of the first things i suggested he did and still had no luck, surely it's got to be the psu if it didn't jump start?

mk17 · 10 Jan 2008 at 21:30

maybe try starting with only one stick of ram, make sure power is supplied to all drives and gfx cards. as k.c. says, disconnect anything unnecessary, like sound cards, etc.

is there a speaker connected, or an lcd display on the mobo, to indicate boot status?

can you post the full spec?

porta · 10 Jan 2008 at 22:55

WarBird said:
yea that was one of the first things i suggested he did and still had no luck, surely it's got to be the psu if it didn't jump start?

some brands of PSU`s need a bit of a load when you short the pins.
try just a fan connected to it.