Pc build won't boot.

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Need some help please.

Got an 800mhz celeron bundle off ebay that was tested before postage, and i've plugged it into a harddisk, floppy drive and cd rom drive.

I turn it on, and i get fans but thats it.
No beeps (theres a buzzer on the board), harddisk doesn't spin up, no lights on anything.

I think i can consider the cpu, ram and board known good as this is the condition i bought them in. The rest of it worked in another system.

The board is an hp brio board, but thats all i know about it, i can't find a motherboard manual or anything, no numbers or names on the board.

I have spares of everything except the board, most if it isn't really known good.

The board has a 6pin connector on it which looks like a pci-e power connector labeled 'psu fan'. I wonder if that needs to be connected to enable it to boot?

Usually in these situations the harddisk will spin up and the cd-rom can be ejected, but this doesn't happen.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
Joe42 said:
The board has a 6pin connector on it which looks like a pci-e power connector labeled 'psu fan'. I wonder if that needs to be connected to enable it to boot?

Sounds like thats your only hope. You should be able to get a converter/spliter for a couple of pounds if you don't have one of these.
 
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Well i have no idea what it is, and none of my older psus have it. As far as i know all auxilary power connectors that exist are either 4 pin or 8 pin. Plus its labeled 'psu fan'.

I have looked on the atx specification and i can't find anything about this connector, so i suspect its proprietry.
 
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It was packaged very well and tested before postage apparently. I'm in contact with the seller to see if he can help.
 
After much swapping of hardware its working nicely now.
It was a dodgy cd-drive, which when set to master causes the pc to be unable to boot, quite a perculiar problem.

As for the psu fan connector, it works fine without anything connected to it, as its an hp board i imagine its propietry.
 
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