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DS3 Woes - Won't Boot

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Hostile_Monk

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Hi all. I'm having major frustration here as I'm trying to get my new conroe build up and running. Here are the specs:

550W Modular Power Supply (forgot the name, but it was about $100 when I got it last year)
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard (rev 2.0)
Core 2 Duo E6300
2GB mushkin(2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) with EPP Profile Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

This is about all I had hooked up, as my video card won't get here for a few days, and I was eager to test everything out.

So here's the order of things:
I connected everything I had, and turned on the power. As I expected, 1 long beep and 2 short beeps for no video card.

I had a old Geforce MX4400 PCI gfx card laying around, so I stuck that in a PCI slot and turned it on. It POSTed fine. My only concerns were that the cpu fan wasn't spinning (but I read it was because of an auto setting, maybe.) and the fan on the power supply wasn't spinning. I remembered that for some reason, I never have had the PSU fan connected to the motherboard. I can no longer find the manual, but I think it mentioned it didn't need it. Maybe I'm going crazy. I could feel no air flow blowing from the bottom of the PSU (there's a huge fan) so I connected that to the motherboard.

Here's where the problems began. I hit the power switch and _briefly_ saw the hdd led and power led and then nothing. Now it doesn't respond at all when i hit the power switch, unless occasionally doing that. No fans spinning, no POST, nothing. Like it's not plugged in (check it a thousand times).

I'm thinking it may be the power supply as maybe I burnt it out all those months not having the fan connected ( I did start getting blue screens of death out of nowhere when I took my old parts out), but I have no way to test this. I'm thinking the fault _may_ be with the motherboard. Any ideas??? Sorry for the long post!
 
I'd also like to add I connected another power supply to the board from an older computer. It's only 300W, and only has a 20-pin adapter. This should work, unless I overlooked something. I connected the 20-pin adapter and 4 pin ATX adapter from the 300W power supply to the DS3 board. I then tried to turn it on via the power switch on the older computer. Nothing happened, but does this prove anything? Will that even work?
 
OK I feel stupid, haha. This thing has had me going INSANE. My little setup did work, but I had to press the power switch on the DS3 computer, DUH! To my dismay it WAS the power supply, as it booted fine when connected to the old power supply. That's too bad, but at least it's not the board. Sorry for all the talking to myself. :)
 
Hostile_Monk said:
OK I feel stupid, haha. This thing has had me going INSANE. My little setup did work, but I had to press the power switch on the DS3 computer, DUH! To my dismay it WAS the power supply, as it booted fine when connected to the old power supply. That's too bad, but at least it's not the board. Sorry for all the talking to myself. :)
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LOL! At least you go to vent! ;)
 
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