Startup problems on a new build

RIPHEAD911

RIPHEAD911

RIPHEAD911

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Hello all, i'm back, although I wish it could be entirely good news.

I have had a issue with my sandybridge asus motherboard and my new build, as suggested to me by this forum a few days ago. After checking many sources and etc, I finally had the PC together and running. However, it doesn't really run :)

Firstly, my pc began smoking when I plugged it in and turned it on. Being a novice at a build, I read a few posts and some people mentioned it was a cpu issue, and I needed to reapply the fan. After also seeing the fan was the wrong way round (oops) I fixed it back in, corrected my mistake with the new thermal grease coating and started it up without the side on. I began to get two short beeps on my mobo on startup. I tried swapping RAM around and etc, and after trying it without the crossfire setup, it turned into a single continuous beep with doesn't end. I can't find a definitive answer to this though, and don't know why it is doing it.

A final note to mention is my cpu cooler (asaka venom) doesn't spin at all yet, the front led and fan on my coolermaster case do start though and my optical drive opens and closes fine.

Any suggestions to the issue would be much appreciated, and I will leave a full unplug/reinstall to my final option as I spent two evenings doing this and it has given me some bad-ass headaches :)

Thanks to all,
Ollie
 
Make sure the CPU cooler is connected to the cpu_fan header. Is it connected?

With regards to the long beep. Take a look in the mobo manual for BIOS beep codes, it will tell you exactly what each series of beeps means.
 
that would be a valid explanation but i can't see that as necessarily correct because I thought of this, plugged the stock cpu fan into the board and that didnt spin at all either. halp?

*edit* yes the cable was and still is connected, i've just moved it to my study for now so I'll have to try fixes tomorrow :)
 
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Have a look at the fan connector on the motherboard.

Does it look like it's burnt out?

What thermal paste did you use?

Have you removed the CPU to see if you got any paste on the pins in the socket?
 
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I've had a look to check for burn marks before I had to go and there aren't any around the cpu fan port, i'll spend time later checking it more thoroughly but i need to go for the day
rma looks likely though, damnit :(
 
Smoke coming from a PC and someone said that it was a CPU issue??

Smoke is much more likely to come from a PSU, the next most likely is a bust capacitor on the mobo..

Which PSU do you have (or did you have..)
 
Firstly, you have used motherboard risers right? I know this may sound obvious but you'll be surprised at those that don't.

The bleeps you are getting are diagnostic POST bleeps so it's good that the system recognises that there is a problem.. Cross reference these bleeps with the fault finding section in the motherboard manual. If not, try here : www.bioscentral.com

Next, disconnect all non-essential hardware including your HDDs, Optical Drives and so forth..

Make sure your video card is inserted correctly and has the appropriate power supply either PCIe 6 or 8 pin.

Make sure too that you have fitted both the 4/8pin CPU power connector as well as the 24pin atx.

Finally, check your is your PSU is functioning as expected. Use my guide here:
http://www.huddysworld.co.uk/index....rking&catid=40:techie-talk-hardware&Itemid=72
 
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