Board Wont Post?

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UnphasedData

Limp Gawd
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Okay I've got my RAM, CPU, GPU, HDD all installed but my motherboard wont post. Its a MSI Neo-LSR with a P4 3.0ghz (S478). 2gb of Crucial/Samsung Value RAM. BFG 6800GT. and a 20GB Seagate HDD. It comes on everything powers up, lights come on, fans flow, but then it beeps and shuts down, but the lights on the power button and the LAN stay on. Any ideas? Its probably something stupid...
 
No need to bump after 20 minutes but...
recheck your power connections, you could have easily missed one.
 
Well what do you know...it was probably the stupidest thing ever...the power switch was shorting the board...Changed switches and it boots fine now...lol I tried literally everything...oh well
 
I hate it when stupid crap like that happens. When I first built my computer, the power switch had came unsodered. Thankfully my neighbor was able to fix it for me pretty easily.
 
lol Okay so now one of my other PCs is without a power switch. Is there anyone to have a PC turn on without that stupid thing attached to it? I mean the computer I took the switch from boots up without hitting the switch in the first place. I've checked and I only have those old style power switches left. Anyway to solder something or put jumpers on it or something? Or will I be forced to go without one of my computers while I wait for a power switch to ship? Or can I get one at Fry's?
 
The flathead screwdriver trick will work till a proper switch gets to you.

just touch the two pins that the power switch hooks on to and it'll fire up.
 
sirholio said:
The flathead screwdriver trick will work till a proper switch gets to you.

just touch the two pins that the power switch hooks on to and it'll fire up.
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Exactly what I was looking for thanks a ton!
 
It's really handy for testing new systems before actually placing parts in a case.
 
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