Build Not Booting...Help

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Ride2kmax

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Ok first This is the parts
There is thread when i was looking for advice for parts.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1339951

MSI P6N SLI-FI
E8400
Gskill 2gb dd2 800
Pny 8800gt
WD320gb
Antec earthwatts 500W
19" acer


I just put everything togerther and turn it on and everything seems to light up fans cpu video card hhd led's on the mother but no video no beeps.
Everything is on but no image.
Where should i start?.
 
I have put a few together. Hate it when that happens.

Try reseating your dimms. Go down to 1 dimm if you have more then 1. Go online. I have had more then one build where it turned out there was some freaky incompatibility... EX I bought a MOBO and couldn’t get it to boot... turned out it wasn’t compatible with the sata drives I had bought (ended up getting a new mobo).

On another older board I couldn’t get it to work till I found out there was a bug with sound blasters put in a specific IO slot (you can guess where I had put it).

If your getting some pwoer thats a good sign (IMO) specialy if there is no smoke :)

Try going very minimal... put everything out except 1 drive 1 dimm and the vid card. Even CD/Floppy drives that arnt absolutly needed to boot/install.

You can double check if the CPU is seated right. Try moving the memory to antoher slot. (I've run into that too).

With my current board I spent a long time fussing and pulling on hair to find it just didnt like the OCZ ram and when I repalced it with corsair everything was happy and fine.

I am sure there are a lot of ppl here with even more experiance then me to give sugestions as well.

Oh another... check the MOBO makers web site... sometimes they have forums and/or a bios fix for your vid card/memory speed/ cpu/etc. had a friend couldnt get a system to work till he updated the bios from floppy after disconecting everything except the vid card.

another long shot you can try clearing the cmos. That can sometimes make thigns worse though so I'd save that for the ultimate last chance before rma.
 
When this happens, 9 out of 10 times, it's because you didn't hook up the front panel connectors properly to the motherboard. Memory would issue would cause a pot beap.

Sometimes boards can be like
+-+--++
-+-++-
It's confusing, but just double check the - and + for those 4 connectors. Usually boards come with a 'quick guide', but the manual will be more in depth. Look at the connectors to see what is power and what is ground. One (split power sw) normally has it written on it. White is usually ground
 
Elf_Boy said:
I have put a few together. Hate it when that happens.

Try reseating your dimms. Go down to 1 dimm if you have more then 1. Go online. I have had more then one build where it turned out there was some freaky incompatibility... EX I bought a MOBO and couldn’t get it to boot... turned out it wasn’t compatible with the sata drives I had bought (ended up getting a new mobo).

On another older board I couldn’t get it to work till I found out there was a bug with sound blasters put in a specific IO slot (you can guess where I had put it).

If your getting some pwoer thats a good sign (IMO) specialy if there is no smoke :)

Try going very minimal... put everything out except 1 drive 1 dimm and the vid card. Even CD/Floppy drives that arnt absolutly needed to boot/install.

You can double check if the CPU is seated right. Try moving the memory to antoher slot. (I've run into that too).

With my current board I spent a long time fussing and pulling on hair to find it just didnt like the OCZ ram and when I repalced it with corsair everything was happy and fine.

I am sure there are a lot of ppl here with even more experiance then me to give sugestions as well.

Oh another... check the MOBO makers web site... sometimes they have forums and/or a bios fix for your vid card/memory speed/ cpu/etc. had a friend couldnt get a system to work till he updated the bios from floppy after disconecting everything except the vid card.

another long shot you can try clearing the cmos. That can sometimes make thigns worse though so I'd save that for the ultimate last chance before rma.
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Ok i did all this and nothing . I also notice that my case doesnt have a speaker so no wonder why i dont hear any beeps.
 
bigdogchris said:
When this happens, 9 out of 10 times, it's because you didn't hook up the front panel connectors properly to the motherboard. Memory would issue would cause a pot beap.

Sometimes boards can be like
+-+--++
-+-++-
It's confusing, but just double check the - and + for those 4 connectors. Usually boards come with a 'quick guide', but the manual will be more in depth. Look at the connectors to see what is power and what is ground. One (split power sw) normally has it written on it. White is usually ground
Click to expand...

Ok i checked this i did have my usb wrong but still nothing everything powers up but no image.
 
You may have a defective part. That can be a pin to figure out with no spare parts laying around. You can try picking up a mobo speaker too (radio shack sells ones that are very cheap... price and construction). See if there are any beep codes to go by.

I'd try some new ram first... but thats just because that has worked for me in the past.
 
You're probably getting a post code but since you have no speakers you can't tell.
 
Thanks everyone for the help.

After some research i found out that this board wont post with the E8400.
So i took back to Microcenter and return it. I got instead the Q6600.
The guys at microcenter were really cool their policy says that cpu cannot be return if open only exchange for the same one but they let me get the Q6600 after i paid 27 dollars more.

And now my system is up and Running it was the cpu After putting the Q6600 it work like a charm.
 
^Weird! Which means that you need a BIOS update for the 45nm processors!
650i chipset, correct?
 
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