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dipper17

dipper17

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Hi all - need some help.

Just setting up my first Conroe setup which is as follows:

E6300 (1.86ghz, 2M/1066mhz/06, SL9SA Malay ), Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P, Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 (2x1gb)

So far I have assembled many PC's upto Pentium 4 (478) with no problems but this one has got me stumped.

The only parts there are on the mobo are the processor, Corsair Memory, Cooling fan and a speaker. When I switch everything on to test it, the fan on the power supply starts, the hard disk start and the fan on the cooler "twitches" and then everything stops. No beeps at any time, a few seconds later it goes through the same process a second time and will keep doing the same continuously. The processor is hot to the touch.


I thought it may have been the sensor wire on the cooling fan not connected properly so the mobo was thinking that there was no fan, but the same happens with several other fans.

The power supply is OK in so far that it works my P4 478 perfectly. I have even tried adding keyboard, mouse and graphics card just in case it needed them but just the same.

Usually at this stage I would just keep swapping parts around until I found the offending one but as the processor, mobo and memory are my only parts I can't in this case. I don't know anyone else in Orkney who has this type of setup well enough to ask them to let me butcher there machine:)

So is there anything anyone could suggest - or perhaps send me up a quad core, P35 mobo and 4gb of memory to do my testing with - I promised i'll let you have them back;)

Seriously any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
 
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The PSU is a Corsair 620w, I've got the P4 2x4 connected as well asa 24pin ATX, also had the same results with a 2x2 P4 connected. Also,tried it with and without graphics card with the same effect.

Thanks

Dipper
 
im guessing you've cleared the cmos? :)

Whats the spec on the ram? i know the giga board only gives 1.8v on default so maybe try just 1 stick?
 
the stock volts on the corsair ram is above normal, it might not post without ram being at stock, also the motherboard detects if there is a monitor connected, so it will only come on with graphics card in and monitor connected
 
Hi there

Thanks for the replies. This is the ram:

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)

800MHz RAM Speed, CAS 4-4-4-12 Timings, 1.8-2.2v VDIMM, Lifetime Warranty with Corsair

I have cleared the CMOS a couple of times. I'm also sure I've tried with the graphics card in but will defo try again this morning to make sure.

Cheers

Dipper
 
Try going into bios and

. In the PC Health Status menu, set the FAN Speed Control Method to "Legacy" & FAN Speed Control Mode to "PWM" to maintain highest speed

or a similar setting.

I have a similar set up and got this when I set it up the first time. Assuming you get the bios screen of course
 
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