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Well I've just managed to piece together my new system after a pretty hefty xmas dinner and I'm running into a couple of problems.
Everything is in place and where it should be (as far as my knowledge goes), and I've followed the quick setup guide that came with the motherboard.
Everything is getting power fine, but it doesn't boot, it just receives power, all of the fancy LEDs and fans start doing their thing and then that's it! The DFI mobo comes with diagnostic LEDs that show the status of bootup. 4 LEDs show when the system starts, 3 show when the CPU is detected, 2 show when RAM is detected, 1 shows when GFX card is detected and 0 show when the system is handed over to the operating system. I'm stuck at 4, so I assumed that there was something up with the CPU. I took it out, replaced it and it still didn't work. So, I chucked in my old AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and I got exactly the same thing.
Also, I noticed that the usage lights on my Corsair RAM sticks were yellow at standy and then a couple more of the LEDs on them came on for ~15secs after I started up the system. But, after that they went out, so I tried using 1 stick, the other stick, swapping slots and everything to no avail.
I'm really stumped guys, any advice or insight anyone can give I would be more than thankful for.
Merry xmas by the way chaps
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Specs are in my sig
Everything is in place and where it should be (as far as my knowledge goes), and I've followed the quick setup guide that came with the motherboard.
Everything is getting power fine, but it doesn't boot, it just receives power, all of the fancy LEDs and fans start doing their thing and then that's it! The DFI mobo comes with diagnostic LEDs that show the status of bootup. 4 LEDs show when the system starts, 3 show when the CPU is detected, 2 show when RAM is detected, 1 shows when GFX card is detected and 0 show when the system is handed over to the operating system. I'm stuck at 4, so I assumed that there was something up with the CPU. I took it out, replaced it and it still didn't work. So, I chucked in my old AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and I got exactly the same thing.
Also, I noticed that the usage lights on my Corsair RAM sticks were yellow at standy and then a couple more of the LEDs on them came on for ~15secs after I started up the system. But, after that they went out, so I tried using 1 stick, the other stick, swapping slots and everything to no avail.
I'm really stumped guys, any advice or insight anyone can give I would be more than thankful for.
Merry xmas by the way chaps
!Specs are in my sig
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. I really am stumped with this. It can't be a problem with the connection of the HDD to the mobo because it was detecting the HDD and formatting perfectly fine.
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) and have a very happy new year, buy yourselves a drink on me