Possibly just made a poor purchase..

marinecommando

marinecommando

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I've just bought the following:

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black)
Asus P5N32-E PLUS SLi nForce (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)

And installed with my existing raptor, 8800GTX, X-fi and Tagan 580watt psu.

I got it delivered and put it all together last night. turned it on at about 11:30pm hopeing for great things and absolutly nowt. I was tired so decided to leave it to this evening to play with.

In the mean time at work today I've been scouring the web for ideas and brought up lots of threads regarding the P5N32-E SLI plus and doa's etc.

This evening ive done the following - tried one / two sticks of the geil. Tried one stick of 5400 corsair ( i borrowed from my dell at work ;) )

I tried removing the xfi and all the drives, swapped the 8800 gtx for a little 7300 i had bought for another project and I am am getting absolutly nothing. No warning beeps no post beeps etc.

When everthing was plugged in the mobo light was comeing on, all fans and gpu fan spinning, hard disk starting upa nd showing activity on the led at the front of the tower etc but no post and no display.

The only things I can think of are that the cpu is stuffed ( but surely I would get a warning beep) or the mobo is stuffed.

If anyone can think of anything i can do to narrow it down or to fix it I'd love the input!!

Much as I love Overclockers prices and prompt delivery (to the point i purchase from them over a competitor 100 yards from where i work in Bolton) their rma process is excruciating slow so I'd like to avoid it if possible!!!.

Thanks in advance guys!!

Dave
 
Well it does indeed sound like the mobo's pining for the fjords. Double check that you have all the power connectors properly inserted, especially those for the CPU.
 
Hi,

thx for the quick reply! I've got the 24 pin atx plugged in and on the other power plug for the cpu i took the cap off the slot covering four of the pins and used the 8 pin dc connector on the Tagan rather than the 4 pin. I'll actually give the 4 pin try now instead just in case. I'm getting that deperate !
 
Well ive given the 4 pin dc connector for the cpu and no different. I've actually got a spare psu i might try with - a hiper type r 580 that is a warranty replacement for my old one that died. Then its definetly either the cpu or mobo.
 
marinecommando said:
Time to fess up - just tried d-sub rather than dvi and it booted fine ..... doh!
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I'm having the exact same problem in another thread.

What's d-sub rather than dvi? Sorry if I seem ignorant, I genuinley have no idea what that means :s

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Sorry, just re-read your initial post and found that everything was running fine just your display was down.

My P5N-e sli is just completely dead and won't power up, I did wonder what you meant with DVI, no surprise I was confused, I was convinced dvi was just the display :P
 
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marinecommando said:
Time to fess up - just tried d-sub rather than dvi and it booted fine ..... doh!
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LOL :D

Reminds me of the time my mate upgraded his PC. His mobo had on board gfx, but also an AGP slot. He purchased an AGP gfx card and installed it. He phoned asking if i could go round and have a look, as he could not get anything on his monitor.

He still had the monitor plugged into the on board gfx port :D

D-Sub is the standard connector on a gfx card (15 pins i think) and is "D" shaped. Its also usually blue or black.
DVI is the newer digital port and is more rectangular and white in colour.
 
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