New Build wont boot atall - Help!

schnipps

schnipps

schnipps

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Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
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Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

With an x1800xt, all put together and when i power up fans go but nothing on screen, no error beep or anything, totally stumped, anyone got any help?
 
try booting it with just one stick of ram in as i know this has worked for a lot of ppl i know with new builds
 
Check your memory is properly clicked into place, not slightly up one end. Try one memory stick at a time in case one is duff. Is your graphics card properly seated? Sounds a daft question but, some cards are a pain to sit properly.
 
tried memory in and out and in diff slots, unplugged all drives and booted and nothing, gfx card works in other system,just nothing atall, no beeps or anything, its got to be the chip or the board, what do i do?
 
i would say that was your problem, the system spec u just put should be minum 480watts.

Buy or borrow a Good branded PSU rated 480watts or more and you will be up and running, i talk from experience lol
 
I had the same mobo and RAM and, even though it worked for about an hour or so, the problem you describe soon reared it's ugly head - and I didn't ever find a way to fix it hence the board was returned.

I've seen this quite a lot over the last week or so around this board and a few others. Looks like there could be a dodgy batch of DS3's doing the rounds.
 
niteflite01 said:
I had the same mobo and RAM and, even though it worked for about an hour or so, the problem you describe soon reared it's ugly head - and I didn't ever find a way to fix it hence the board was returned.

I've seen this quite a lot over the last week or so around this board and a few others. Looks like there could be a dodgy batch of DS3's doing the rounds.
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I im reluctant to think its the PSU as i have been running a similar setup on a crappy thing, its got to be the mother board.
 
schnipps said:
I im reluctant to think its the PSU as i have been running a similar setup on a crappy thing, its got to be the mother board.
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fine but remind me to say told you so.

any one who used many different systems and PSU would say your PSU is weak for the spec of your system.

regards
 
Ronaldo said:
fine but remind me to say told you so.

any one who used many different systems and PSU would say your PSU is weak for the spec of your system.

regards
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Would a 380 totally stop it from booting though? I mean not even get to bios, i have ran a pentium D 820 in my packard bell with a none brand psu, i mean i would love to think its the psu but how sure can you be its not a dodgy motherboard?
 
i aint 100% sure but chances of it being PSU is very high,

I once bought a mini case which came with 220watts mini PSU, worked on a amd 1ghz 380mb ran and gf 2mx, 40gb hdd for abt a week then nothing, lights came on fans moved but thats it, rma'd mobo 2 twice, check cpu and ran on friends pc they worked.

then out of interest put a cheapo 400watt normal PSU and everything worked fine i still have that pc collecting dust, its for spare incase.

why dont you borrow a friends psu if they have one or try and stick 1 of ram, 1 hdd, and if you can a pci gfx card that takes no power, dont connect DVDrw
 
Ronaldo said:
i aint 100% sure but chances of it being PSU is very high,

I once bought a mini case which came with 220watts mini PSU, worked on a amd 1ghz 380mb ran and gf 2mx, 40gb hdd for abt a week then nothing, lights came on fans moved but thats it, rma'd mobo 2 twice, check cpu and ran on friends pc they worked.

then out of interest put a cheapo 400watt normal PSU and everything worked fine i still have that pc collecting dust, its for spare incase.

why dont you borrow a friends psu if they have one or try and stick 1 of ram, 1 hdd, and if you can a pci gfx card that takes no power, dont connect DVDrw
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Tried a bench boot with no hard drive or dvd drive, just a pure boot with only 1 stick of ram and gfx card in, i would expect it to post to bios but nothing. Surely a 380 PSU wuld boot that?
 
hmm could be mobo but dont rule out psu.

the only way to find out which component is not working is to test each one.

I would try and test with a different PSU, just because of the spec of them system even tho u didnt connect hdd or dvdrw and got no boot.

But i can tell you dont have access to another PSU now so wait till you can get and test with other or try your stuff in a mates pc,
 
Im going to get ahold of anothe S3 board today and try that, one thing though is there any reason my x1800xt gfx card runs the fan at full speed when i power up? In my other machine the fan never went loud unless gaming, is there a way to control the fan?
 
Sounds potentially like the PSU cables aren't all attached in the right places. Don't think it's the PSU at all - like you say it would still make some kind of effort to POST especially with minimal equipment installed.
 
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