new rig will not boot up :(

domyboy · 20 Dec 2006 at 22:11

hello i just bought a new rig, which includes geil6400c4, gigabyte ds4, conroe 6400, corsiar 620w psu.
the problem is i just put it all together and when i press the power button it dusnt boot up it just like cycles through a kind of fan spin, i dont know whats causing this, it dosnt even get to the post. i read in an other forum that this has happened a lot and that the solution is basically to get another one becuase the board is faulty, is this true?

domyboy · 20 Dec 2006 at 22:23

yes i connected all the power connections to the mother board, the big large one and the one for the cpu and the one for the pcie

domyboy · 20 Dec 2006 at 22:30

just checked, there is a cable going to the harddrive, used a seperate one just in case.

domyboy · 20 Dec 2006 at 22:36

i just read this post
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17636047&highlight=ds4
it seems to be the exact problem im having, however im not sure if its the geil ram or the mobo, any ideas?

domyboy · 20 Dec 2006 at 23:05

the more i read that previous link ther more im convinced that the mobo is ******, oh dear, my first ever rig and it goes pear shaped

domyboy · 20 Dec 2006 at 23:21

i just found sum dusty old ram in an old computer, and stuck that inplace of the geil, and it has booted up. why is this now working with different ram? if i load up everythign using the old ram, then put the geil back in will this work or is the mobo ******?

domyboy · 21 Dec 2006 at 00:04

ok thanks guys ill give that a try and let yous know

but will my board and everything be fine after this? also will my crappy ram not melt with +3v?

domyboy · 21 Dec 2006 at 00:29

ok, ill try it as soon as my hardrive is finished being formated.

domyboy · 21 Dec 2006 at 01:36

oh dear, from bad to worse, i waited until the hard drive was formatted then it loaded windows xp on, it then got to a stage where it said it had to reboot to continue so it did so but when rebooting it came up to the loading screen and it said there was an error reading disc, and the only option there is to press ctrl alt dlt, but if u do that then it reboots and continually comes up with the same message. ahhhhhh

so i dont want to even try the geil ram if i cant get this to work.

domyboy · 21 Dec 2006 at 02:03

okay dokay, it seems to be loading fine, but its gonna take 34mins

doh

ps i loaded the gigabyte disc that comes with the mobo and i think it installed the drivers for sata.

domyboy · 21 Dec 2006 at 02:38

when installing the windows pack it froze so i had to abort it, i think maybe the raid sata thing isnt set up, i need to do that first, but iv ran out of time to finish this, have to sleep, got work in 3hrs

will post outcome tomorow, thanks for the help.

domyboy · 23 Dec 2006 at 04:12

just reporting back folks, all is well. i upted the voltage 0.3v and it worked fine also got windows to run no probs

thanks for the help