Oh darn - its not working!

LostSoul

LostSoul

LostSoul

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Hi all,

I just put together a PC with an Asus P6T, i920 and a Zotac GTX 260 card. Put it all together and switched it on. It looks like the MoBo is powering up, all the case fans spin and the cooler fans. The reset/power putton works on the MoBo.

But nothing is getting through to the monitor.

The thing I notice is the Graphics card fan isnt spinning. I have connected both the PCI-e cables from the PSu to the Card, tried changing the sockets on the psu (and the cables).

Unfortunately I dont have another PCI graphics card to try.

The case has no speaker so I cant hear any beeps.

What should i be trying???
 
It sounds like it maybe you gfx card, is there anyway of you getting hold of a PCIe gfx card ? through a friend maybe ?

I would remove everything that isn't needed and just run bare minimum and see what happens then.

Ninja
 
Well I checked again, all cables are in and the white ASUS logo is lighting up but the graphics card isnt outputting. I cant be sure whether the CPU and MoBo are OK until I see something onscreen.

I'll try to get hold of a gfx card, and see if I can take a speaker out of an old PC and install it.
 
I just put the speaker from this PC into the new PC - but it makes no sound on startup.

Is that a worry? The PC shuts down in 5 secs when you press the power switch.
 
In your motherboard manual it should give you the "beep" codes, try changing your sticks of ram (e.g remove all of them and try them one by one to see if there faulty.

Ninja
 
tried every combination of the ram now with no change.

I cant get any beeps out of it at all.

I am not sure it is even POSTing, surely it would give me abeep of some sort?
 
I should in theory give you some sort of beep even if it fails I think, mine seems to beep a lot more whens something is wrong.

I'm not trying to insult you intelligence but did you put speaker in correctly ?

Have you tried taking out the gfx card completely to try and get a beep.

Have you tried/got another machine to test your ram in ?

Ninja
 
hmmm only way I would do it is by trying another graphics card that works it in it/ trying yours in someone else's machine.

Can you try any of your other components with any other machine you mite have ?

Ninja
 
What ram do you and have you tried only use 2 sticks assuming it's the 3 sticks ram for i7.

My pc makes beep noise when turn it on as well, i think most pc the same (ASUS mobo)
 
I had a similar problem when putting together my last system, no beeps and an "I'm not working" combination of red lights on the GPU. Half an hour later I realised I had forgotten to attach the 4pin power connector to the mobo as well as the main 24 pin one. After that it worked fine.
 
death_looms said:
I had a similar problem when putting together my last system, no beeps and an "I'm not working" combination of red lights on the GPU. Half an hour later I realised I had forgotten to attach the 4pin power connector to the mobo as well as the main 24 pin one. After that it worked fine.
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Haha lmfao how did you manage to miss them ?

Ninja
 
They were way up in the corner of the board! And my last one diddn't have them! Was getting pretty frustrated the whole time as I'm sure you can imagine, then the "Ohhhhhhhhhh right........" kind of embarrassed feeling. But yeah, there were no beeps or any sigh of life except the CPU fan was spinning!
 
My old PC (this one) is a S939A64FX With DDR ram and an AGP X1900Pro so not much interchangability.

I'll see if I can get hold of another PCI GFX card tomorrow.
 
check to make sure you have the 8-pin power near the CPU. it is a common thing people always forget.

oh and some mobo manufacturers (ASUS especially) put a cap on that connector which only covers 4 plugs. no idea why and it makes no sense.
 
Right, an update.

I have now tried a 9400 gt gfx card with no change.

I have the MoBo set up with the CPU+cooler, 1 stick of ram (and I have tried all three) GFX ccard and Keyboard plugged in. No HDs or anything else. The two ATX power connectors are connected and firmly seated.

I have removed the cooler and checked the CPU. It definitly is in the right way and there is no sign of damage to the base of the CPU or the LGA on the MoBo.

The only factors I havnt been able to eliminate are the Mobo,CPU and PSU.

The PSU is a Tagan 800w modular.

I am beginning to suspect the MoBo is duff.
 
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