New system not booting / no signal :(

eggyoke · 3 Nov 2007 at 13:07

Hiya, last month I bought a new system to escape my old skt 478 P4 days. I ordered a E6550, Asus P5N32-E Sli Plus, 2gb Geil Ultra, 22" Samsung Pebble, 8800 GTS 640mb and a 320gb Sata HDD.

Immediately I had problems. It wouldn't boot and no signal would appear on the monitor. I tried reconnecting everything and re-seating the RAM modules etc. Eventually, for reasons I dont know, it booted itself about 5mins after I pushed the power button on.

I thought the problem was with my PSU, as the P5N32-E has a 8pin cpu power connector, and my old 550watt PSU didn't (I was using the 4pin.) Eventually the system ran reasonably OK (occasionally it just wouldn't boot :confused:

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I read a bit up on the P5N32-E and learned that quite a few people had problems with it and that it wasn't a great clocker.

So I went and bought a Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R along with a new Coolmaster 620w RealPower PSU, Sata DVD-RW and Antec 182 case.

This morning after taking my time, carefully connecting everything together neat and tidy with my new Gigabyte mobo, I press the power button, and the same thing is happening all over again. All the fans are spinning, the harddrive is spinning up, the light on my DVD drive is on, but there is just no signal on the monitor.

I've tried re-seating the ram sticks, using one at a time, everything was seated correctly, but WTF???? :mad:

Could it be my CPU??? I've had it working before, but I had murder with the damned stock cooler and heatsink this morning. I was going to buy an Thermalright Ultra-120 eventually because I want to OC.

Anyone have any idea?? Its wrecking my brain, I just want the thing to come on. Why is there always problems with PCs???

xirokx · 3 Nov 2007 at 13:12

no signal usually means faulty gfx card or monitor problems...

do you have means of trying either?

i would start there and then think about other things like RAM...

eggyoke · 3 Nov 2007 at 13:46

Thanks for your reply.

Well I know it isn't the monitor as I've used it with no problems on my old P4 system.

When I turn the power on, the fans turn on, then after 3 secs the GPU fan fires up full speed and stays like that.

When I first tried it (With the Asus mobo) it did the same thing, but would slow itself down just before it booted. Now its not slowing down at all.
I havent got another PCI GPU to try unfortunetly. I've tried reseating it a few times, but its not wanting to come on anymore

Does anyone know the returns policy with overclockers? Or should I get in touch with Leadtek?

caithomas44 · 3 Nov 2007 at 13:49

within 28 days is back to ocuk but after is back to the manufacturers but you have to fill in a rma web note anyway so go on faq or help on the ocuk website and fill in a webnote

Vir · 3 Nov 2007 at 13:59

test another graphic card in your system, borrow one from a mate, or test your gfx card in his pc. Also, maybe your gfx card needs power from your PSU, you can look in your manual! That's what happened to my card.

thefishdude · 3 Nov 2007 at 14:18

you connected all the extra power conectos to the gfx some have 2 extra some 1

eggyoke · 3 Nov 2007 at 14:28

Vir said:
test another graphic card in your system, borrow one from a mate, or test your gfx card in his pc. Also, maybe your gfx card needs power from your PSU, you can look in your manual! That's what happened to my card.

I wish I could try out a different PCI card but I haven't got another one, and my friends have really old PCs.

thefishdude said:
you connected all the extra power conectos to the gfx some have 2 extra some 1

Yes I've connected the GPU 6pin power connector. The GPU only has one connector so I cant do anymore than I have.

caithomas44 said:
within 28 days is back to ocuk but after is back to the manufacturers but you have to fill in a rma web note anyway so go on faq or help on the ocuk website and fill in a webnote

Thanks, I've just sent an RMA form. I was worried at first, I thought it was over a month ago, but I ordered it on the 10th (Just in time

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Hopefully everything goes well (I've had nothing but problems since I bought the new stuff.) When you RMA a product, do you get a choice of money back or is it a straight item replacement?

thephantom114 · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:18

I had a similar problem with everything firing but no signal or beep. Turned out it was the motherboard.

Replaced it with a new one, but blew up my psu in the process while also frying my motherboard. lol. I'm not overly happy. So it's RMAs galore at the moment.