No post, no boot

Avenged7Fold

Avenged7Fold

Avenged7Fold

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A client of mine has sent a PC my way for a bit of an upgrade, overclock and a clean up.

It is:

i7 920 D0
Asus P6t Deluxe V2
OCZ 600w PSU
GTX 250
Kingston hyper x SSD

Basically I switched the PC on when i first got it, n everything was fine n dandy (despite complaints about Blue screens from the User, though i never experienced any during the few hours i was running it). After putting in the SSD, the PC failed to boot. In fact, the PC fails to even get to the post screen and monitor stays off.

I know for sure the PSU, GPU and RAM are fine, as they both work in my other system. I have tried with only one DIMM (three times with different sticks), no HDD or SSD connected, and just the GPU mobo and CPU. I must have unplugged and plugged everything 7 or 8 times and have also re-fitted the cooler half a dozen times. Nothing i can see might be shorting contact points on the MOBO.

Any ideas?

Driving me up the wall because i cant even get it to beep me some error codes. The PC switches on, lights go on and fans spin up but apart from that nothing. Monitor acts as if it is disconnected and i have tried a VGA monitor and a DVI-D monitor.
 
my asrock board did this exact thing. on occasion it would boot up tho and not skip a beat then the next 20 times exactly as you described. when i did some digging i found out my local pc shop who built it for me fitted an fx8350 into a 95w rated mobo so not surprising it only lasted 4 months. i scrapped it and got my current asus board. is it possible the motherboard has given up the ghost?
 
Does the lights and fans switch only for a second and go off? Or is it a sort of a loop thing?
I've had an issue like this and it was some dust/dirt on the edge of cpu socket ( i think ).
I cleaned it very very carefully, re-seated cpu and everything worked perfect.
Or is it something else?
 
i think its the same as what happened to me. power on, cpu fan spins, case fans spin, everything whirs like it should but monitor acts like nothings happening.
 
Try taking everything out of the case. It's possible there's a short, perhaps a screw stuck behind the motherboard.
 
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