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MrLarryLarry
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I am putting together a new build and have had the following occur:
I originally purchased a GA-MA78GM-S2H (AM2/AM2+ AMD 780G) and paired it with the following:
Rosewill 550W PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182030
2 GB PQI DDR2 800
250GB WD SATA 7200RPM HDD
1TB Seagate SATA 7200RPM HDD
Lite-On SATA DVD Burner
8600GT
Used (from last HTPC, but working fine when removed) 64x2 3800+ AM2
No matter what I did, the build would not post. Would power on and all fans would spin, HDDs spin, CPU has power, PCI-E have power, etc... but no post beep, no display to monitor (regardless of whether through VGA, DVI or HDMI).
I verified ALL Parts but the motherboard in other builds as independently working. No luck, so I figured must be a bad MB or perhaps a quirk w/ GB board not liking some of my other parts, so I RMA'd it and replaced it with an ASUS M3N78-VM AM2/AM2+ Nvidia 8200 board.
Put the new board in and... exact same problem.
Remember, all other parts (RAM, CPU, Power Supply, HDDs, Video Card) all verified working in other builds after the probs showed up in this build.
So now I know it's not MB, so I try a brand new 64x2 5000+ (65nm) - no change
I also tried another PSU I had from another build - no change.
I also tried a diff DDR2800 RAM stick from another build AND a DDR2667 stick - no change
I tried it with just CPU & RAM in board, everything else disconnected (and each other peripheral independently disconnected) = no change.
I have used the display with other builds - it works fine w/ same VGA & DVI cables.
The board powers on, onboard speaker is attached and no post, no display.
The only thing I can come up with here is that the case I am using for this had a snipped power connector and I connected the reset switch connector to the power switch pins on the motherboard (so that I could just press the reset switch and have it turn on the computer, in theory). The power switch on this case was snipped a long time ago and I don't have extra wires to use to try to reconnect it.
I figured that it would make no difference if it was the RESET SW or the POWER SW as long as it was connected to the POWER SW on the motherboard so I really doubt that's the issue. To doublecheck, originally I posted that ? and everyone reiterated that it could not cause the problem (Link to that post here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1033311378#post1033311378)
I have had issues getting new builds to work before but this is the first time I'm truly stumped.
The only thing I can think of next is to try a new case but if anyone has any other ideas, please share... Any help much appreciated!
I originally purchased a GA-MA78GM-S2H (AM2/AM2+ AMD 780G) and paired it with the following:
Rosewill 550W PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182030
2 GB PQI DDR2 800
250GB WD SATA 7200RPM HDD
1TB Seagate SATA 7200RPM HDD
Lite-On SATA DVD Burner
8600GT
Used (from last HTPC, but working fine when removed) 64x2 3800+ AM2
No matter what I did, the build would not post. Would power on and all fans would spin, HDDs spin, CPU has power, PCI-E have power, etc... but no post beep, no display to monitor (regardless of whether through VGA, DVI or HDMI).
I verified ALL Parts but the motherboard in other builds as independently working. No luck, so I figured must be a bad MB or perhaps a quirk w/ GB board not liking some of my other parts, so I RMA'd it and replaced it with an ASUS M3N78-VM AM2/AM2+ Nvidia 8200 board.
Put the new board in and... exact same problem.
Remember, all other parts (RAM, CPU, Power Supply, HDDs, Video Card) all verified working in other builds after the probs showed up in this build.
So now I know it's not MB, so I try a brand new 64x2 5000+ (65nm) - no change
I also tried another PSU I had from another build - no change.
I also tried a diff DDR2800 RAM stick from another build AND a DDR2667 stick - no change
I tried it with just CPU & RAM in board, everything else disconnected (and each other peripheral independently disconnected) = no change.
I have used the display with other builds - it works fine w/ same VGA & DVI cables.
The board powers on, onboard speaker is attached and no post, no display.
The only thing I can come up with here is that the case I am using for this had a snipped power connector and I connected the reset switch connector to the power switch pins on the motherboard (so that I could just press the reset switch and have it turn on the computer, in theory). The power switch on this case was snipped a long time ago and I don't have extra wires to use to try to reconnect it.
I figured that it would make no difference if it was the RESET SW or the POWER SW as long as it was connected to the POWER SW on the motherboard so I really doubt that's the issue. To doublecheck, originally I posted that ? and everyone reiterated that it could not cause the problem (Link to that post here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1033311378#post1033311378)
I have had issues getting new builds to work before but this is the first time I'm truly stumped.
The only thing I can think of next is to try a new case but if anyone has any other ideas, please share... Any help much appreciated!
