new build fails to post

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I am having a few issues trying to et a new machine for a friend up and running. Hoping smeone might have some suggestions on the problem.

It's a budget build... MSI RS480M2 (S939, PCI-E), A64 3000+ (venice), 512mb Corsair ValueSelect, 80GB WD IDE, Liteon CD/DVD-ROM, Codegen bundle case with Codegen 350W PSU. I slapped everything together in about 10 minutes, plugged her in and booted. I got the bios screen, loaded the setup and changed a few normal settings (DDR timings, on-board video ram size, adapure size, etc) then poped in a Windows XP disc and did a Save Settings and restart. Well, it never restarted.... :(

So, the problem is after everything was working and I dod not change any hardware, I now ge nothing when booting. just a black screen. Fans and drives spin up, the PLED on the front of the case lights up, but nothing more. I figured maybe I borked something odd in the bios, so I cleared the CMOS and still got the same problem.

Anyone have any ideas? I havnt really stated debugging yet, but I certainly will soon. I have 101 replacement parts to narrow things down... but maybe someone knows an easy fix.
 
Does it beep at you? Ever beep at ya? Make sure the pc speaker is plugged in for starters. Can you hear the HDD spin up? Damn, The Twin beat me to the PSU...
 
heheh I know the PSU is absolute crap, but I figured it would last more then one boot! :) I am drawing like no power from it, ya know? I have an extra psu, so I will swap it and see if that helps tonight. With my situations though, I don' see how it could point to a PSU issue. No beeps at all... I think I did get one beep on the first boot (which worked) but I can't say for sure.

I will follow up on the PSU in a couple hours. Any other ideas?
 
Could be a bad PSU from the box. Same situation happened to a friend who bought a fotron. Booted up fine, ran it for 24 hours, he went to work, came home, power-button and nothing....

Stuff happens.

Have you tried clearing CMOS first and then attempting to re-boot? That might narrow it down to a bios setting.
 
OK, tried a different PSU (430W Antec TruePower) and it is still doing the same thing. I have cleared the CMOS numerous times and even removed/replaced the battery. Any other ideas? This is killing me... :)
 
You do have the latest mobo bios flash no ?

Or what did tech support say for da mobo ?
 
switch the pc speaker wires to be sure that the speaker is not just wired backwards and turn it on. Make sure vid / ram are pressed in firmly and take out ALL other cards. Then disconnect data and power cables from cds and hdds and try to post it. If that dont work, try using a different piece of ram in a different slot. Eliminate everything possible

Oh, just for your FYI, if the battery were bad, it would still post fine, but it would not remember your settings (like the time) each time ya turned it on.
 
Rune75 said:
switch the pc speaker wires to be sure that the speaker is not just wired backwards
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Bad news. There's no such thing. PC speaker isn't an LED, it's not direction specific. In other words, turning it over won't help, so the problem is beyond that.

Everything else I agree with (including the battery, I've seen several systems with failing batteries and they definitely do post.)

Be sure to basically minimize everything. Remove all unnecessary cards (this includes soundcards, network cards, everything) and, heck, just to see if it starts, unplug all the fans but maybe one and unhook harddrives, cdroms, everything. Basically, you want just a processor, a motherboard, and a video card. ^_^ Actually, heck, if you made sure your PC speaker is hooked up right, pull that video card out too. You should at least get a beep informing you it's starting, even if it's one of those rare bioses that will allow the system to boot without a video card (even a server should have some el cheap 1MB card or something...)
 
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