Building New Computer - Doesn't POST

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Anchen

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Hi All,
Welp, I tried putting together my new comptuter most of the parts have arrived, however I am having an issue where it doesn't even POST, I don't hear any beeps at all, nor does anything come up on the monitor. The fan on the heatsink (hooked up through the cpu fan header on the mobo) and the fan on the video card both spin up, and I can see the green motherboard LED on when there is power is on, but I still can't get anything on the monitor or even error beeps. I can hear a noise or two (aside from the fans) but none of it sounds like a POST beep that I usually hear.

Here is what I currently have the following on my bench, which consists of the following components outside of my case atop the removable motherboard tray:

Asus P5K-E WIFI-AP
EVGA 8800GTX
2x2gb GSKILL DDR800 RAM
Corsair HX620W PSU
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

As far as I can tell everything had gone smoothly, I didn't find any issue putting the CPU in, I installed the backplate and heatsink with just a little difficulty after applying a thin layer of arctic mx-2, but overall not too bad. I then put the two sticks of memory in and then the graphics card. I hooked up both the 24 pin and the 4 pin power connectors, and plugged the two pci-e cables from the psu into the video card. I don't have any other drives or perhipherals hooked up other than what is listed. Any ideas on why it might not be posting at all or suggestions on what to do? Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Re-seat the CPU. Use only one stick of RAM (try different slots). Try another vidcard, if you have one around.
 
enginurd said:
Re-seat the CPU. Use only one stick of RAM (try different slots). Try another vidcard, if you have one around.
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Alright, I've put in just one stick of ram. I don't have any pci or pci-express video cards unfortunately though, I only have my old agp card. Another thing, and it was pretty stupid of me to forget this, apparently the tj09 (my case) doesn't have a case speaker and the Asus p5k-e doesn't have a built in speaker. So I may be getting POST error beeps and not knowing it. Is there anyway I can get the beeps to play if my chassis doesn't have a speaker? Can I hook some other speaker into it?
 
See if you can find an old case speaker or one from another computer. Since you have an Asus, find out if it has the technology to output the errors to the line-out audio jack... if so, just plug in some headphones or regular speakers. I know this is a feature of some of their boards, but not sure which ones.

Try re-seating the CPU. This has helped me in more than one occasion, especially if the system won't boot on the first try.
 
Alright, I scrounged up an old case, and also reseated the cpu and reinstalled the Ultra 120 Extreme. I can twist it a little, but not much, is this typical? With the old case plugged in, I could hear the beeps now, but I don't recognize what this code is if it is an error. I get 1 short beep, and then a few seconds later I get a second short beep, then nothing. Is it possible that it is just the video card not delivering an image for some reason to the monitor? The monitor I am testing on is an old CRT, so I am using the dvi to (whatever the old style was) adapter if that means anything.
 
DVI to D-SUB adapter. Find out what the error beeps mean in the manual or Asus website.
 
Double check power, and also clear the cmos, i would reseed the memory and video card. Also the motherboard have a LED Error code? Most it, that might help you out. I know mine has codes when you start it, and if its throwing a code you can look it up in the manual and be a whole lot easier then hunting. Let us know how it goes
 
Alright, I scrounged up an old case, and also reseated the cpu and reinstalled the Ultra 120 Extreme. I can twist it a little, but not much, is this typical? With the old case plugged in, I could hear the beeps now, but I don't recognize what this code is if it is an error. I get 1 short beep, and then a few seconds later I get a second short beep, then nothing. Is it possible that it is just the video card not delivering an image for some reason to the monitor? The monitor I am testing on is an old CRT, so I am using the dvi to (whatever the old style was) adapter if that means anything.
 
Well now...

I am both relieved, overjoyed, and infinitely depressed atm. So my computer posts at leasts, does so with flying colors, the two beeps actually mean it got as far as it could go, and thus far it seems all my new hardware works.

The bad news is I wasted like 6 hours of my life and I have a dead CRT monitor. I changed monitors after the regular pci vga card didn't work either, and lo and behold I am up to the screen where I get a bad checksum but can otherwise continue. Crossing my fingers that this is the last of my problems and hope this rig overclocks like hell and kicks some ass.

Thanks for your help and input enginurd!
 
Heh, I've done that, too, back in the day, lol. We've all done something like that at least once, so don't feel bad. :eek:
 
Yes, just count it as another notch in your wonderful experience of PC hardware.

I once took 4 hours taking apart and rebuilding my old rig when it wouldn't display video after a move before I finally figured out that I forgot to plug in the monitor. :eek:
 
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