Today I built my new machine, reusing my old Antec 900 case, OCZGXS850 850W PSU, hdd and dvd drive.
I bought all of these new components:
Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614)
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW)
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X)
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
For my first ever build, everything went pretty smoothly, but the machine is in a constant loop of rebooting. Once in a while it'll boot as normal, but not at any point have I been able to get any video output to my monitor, either DVI nor HDMI.
I've stripped the whole thing down again, so that all that's connected to the motherboard is the CPU,CPU fan, the 2 sticks of RAM, and and 24 and 8 pin PSU connections.
Same problem. Tried removing the RAM 1 stick at a time, and changing slots, same problem.
It's as if the PSU is revving. Quick blast, PSU led and fan come on, light switches off, fan stops. Sometimes there's a flickering of the fan and led, othertimes revs. But, as I said, even when it is running, there's no video output.
Any help much appreciated!
I bought all of these new components:
Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614)
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW)
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X)
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
For my first ever build, everything went pretty smoothly, but the machine is in a constant loop of rebooting. Once in a while it'll boot as normal, but not at any point have I been able to get any video output to my monitor, either DVI nor HDMI.
I've stripped the whole thing down again, so that all that's connected to the motherboard is the CPU,CPU fan, the 2 sticks of RAM, and and 24 and 8 pin PSU connections.
Same problem. Tried removing the RAM 1 stick at a time, and changing slots, same problem.
It's as if the PSU is revving. Quick blast, PSU led and fan come on, light switches off, fan stops. Sometimes there's a flickering of the fan and led, othertimes revs. But, as I said, even when it is running, there's no video output.
Any help much appreciated!
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