Urgent help!

MaxB90 · 6 Oct 2011 at 18:26

OK, it took me a few hours longer than I hoped but I have connected all my PC Parts.

ASUS M%A998X EVO
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition
Radeon HD 6970
30GB OCZ Vertex
1TB Seagate HDD ( yes I know should have got spinpoint )
650W PSU
Zalmon Z9 Plus tower case.
Basic DVD RW Optical drive.

I think I have everything connected correctly, however I get to the windows loading screen, then on my asus monitor it says no HDMI connected and i'm going through boot loops. Have I not connected something right? Is it my operating system? please help.

Surveyor · 6 Oct 2011 at 18:44

Have you connected an 8 pin and a 6 pin PCI-E power cable to the graphics card?

Have you connected the 24 pin and 8 pin power cables to the motherboard?

While you're at it what's the make and model of the PSU?

FYI there's nothing wrong with Seagate.

MaxB90 · 6 Oct 2011 at 18:48

Surveyor said:
Have you connected an 8 pin and a 6 pin PCI-E power cable to the graphics card?

Have you connected the 24 pin and 8 pin power cables to the motherboard?

While you're at it what's the make and model of the PSU?

Antec Truepower 650W Bronze plus energy saving.

24 pin and 8 pin power connected to motherboard

I connected: 1 8 pin ( 1 6 pin and 2 pin extention ) and 1 6 pin to the graphics card.

RAM was 1600MhZ advertised on OCZ, but on the bios it only read 1066 MhZ ?

Further notes:

Running mem test diagnostics now awaiting results currently 19% complete
the 2 pin connection may have been out just a bit and have pushed that in further ( I guess this may be the culprit? )

Surveyor · 6 Oct 2011 at 18:51

MaxB90 said:
the 2 pin connection may have been out just a bit and have pushed that in further ( I guess this may be the culprit? )

It could be.

MaxB90 · 6 Oct 2011 at 18:54

Surveyor said:
It could be.

Not the graphics card, have checked everything is in fine. Think it is the RAM, will take out 1 set and see if it makes a difference.

Surveyor · 6 Oct 2011 at 19:10

MaxB90 said:
Now I can't even see the screen

Try re-seating the card.

Take it out, check for any debris in the slot and put it back in again.

Does that sound a bit Carry On?

Surveyor · 6 Oct 2011 at 19:11

MaxB90 said:
Not the graphics card, have checked everything is in fine. Think it is the RAM, will take out 1 set and see if it makes a difference.

Just try 1 stick at a time.

MaxB90 · 6 Oct 2011 at 19:30

Surveyor said:
Just try 1 stick at a time.

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 )

thats the error message I get. Fans etc go on maximum over drive. GPU reseated ( however I don't get that "clicking sound with that so don't know if it properly is ( however I push it down enough for the latch to go up. ).