Problems

apocgohan · 20 Apr 2010 at 22:45

Hi,

I installed this bundle which came in today http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-044-OE

The system does not want to get to POST there is no sound however there are lights on the motherboard I have made sure I have all the connections in place, I am not sure what is wrong.

Is 650 watt power enough for that bundle

I read that gigabyte mobo's take a long time to do POST from a cold boot, out of curiosity could this be the case, how long does this usually take?

apocgohan · 20 Apr 2010 at 23:36

okay I think my PSU is not gonna happen with this combination... Just realised that I only have a 4 pin connector for the cpu and yet no 8 pin connector, I haven't tried it yet but could I still plug in the 4 pin into the 8 pin somehow or should i jusgt give up and order a new psu? yep I did miss that connection lol

apocgohan · 20 Apr 2010 at 23:55

Sorry for double post but since it is a heavily oc'ed quad, could i get some sort of converter instead of having to fork out for a new power supply

quick update just tried it the 4 pin into 8 pin the lights turn off after what it seems like a successful POST one beep, so I think the problem is the cpu is not getting enough power

apocgohan · 21 Apr 2010 at 00:27

Yep I do thanks m8 you're a legend

apocgohan · 22 Apr 2010 at 18:28

Alright I got the cable and it works however I hate to be a pain in the backside but I have another problem...

I have two HDD's one SATA western digital caviar black 1tb and an old pata drive, when I installed windows 7, I sometimes dual booted these hd's because of low end system specs before juggled between xp and windows 7. Couldn't run virtual machines well then.

Anyway now when I try just the sata drive by itself its missing Bootmgr etc as expected but when I try to run the PATA drive, it gets stuck on verifying DMI pool. I am now stuck wondering what to do