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No boot. Not enough power?

Etherton

Etherton

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My sons friend bought these components (I wasn't consulted) and once assembled it will power on but nothing will boot. Tried both display port and HDMI. Also tried the onboard HDMI. This PSU is rated at 500w and from the specs the GPU needs 400w and the CPU needs 65w. That leaves very little room for the rest IF that is an accurate output wattage on the PSU.

Suggestions? I am going to try removing the GPU and installing it in my sons PC (same 1060/6 except it is an MSI) later.

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Etherton said:
My sons friend bought these components (I wasn't consulted) and once assembled it will power on but nothing will boot. Tried both display port and HDMI. Also tried the onboard HDMI. This PSU is rated at 500w and from the specs the GPU needs 400w and the CPU needs 65w. That leaves very little room for the rest IF that is an accurate output wattage on the PSU.

Suggestions? I am going to try removing the GPU and installing it in my sons PC (same 1060/6 except it is an MSI) later.

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Did you connect the auxiliary power to the motherboard?
 
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It powers on and fans are spinning, but you're not getting an image on the monitor?

FYI the motherboard display outputs will not work with the R3 1200 because it doesn't have an iGPU.

Also, that video card has a TDP of 120W, so you should have plenty of headroom with 500W.
 
Kwaz said:
Did you connect the auxiliary power to the motherboard?

Have you tried pulling the GPU and using on board HDMI?
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Don't think Ryzen 1200 has iGPU, and GTX 1060 shouldn't be pulling 400 watts, so you should have enough power.
 
Bent CPU pin?

How about pulling the mb and testing it out outside the case? Out it on a flat piece of cardboard. Just connect what's needed to post.

Could be a mb standoff out of place grounding out on the mb.
 
Etherton said:
Yeah, they didn't have the power to the HDD connected though.
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In that case you would just get a screen after POST telling you that no hard drive is connected.

Are you getting any diagnostic beeps? If the motherboard has a LED for status codes, what is the last one shown when the monitor turns off?
 
it should boot no issues with that PSU my ryzen machine R7 1800x with a RX 580 overclocked to 1500mhz, 16GB Gskill Ripjaw 3200mhz, 1 SSD, 1HDD mounted in a B350 Tomahawk runs absolutely with no issues in a 550W Rosewill PSU

Recheck all connections, (specially recheck the CPU pins) and test with the mobo outside the case..
 
Are the power cables plugged in correctly on the PSU side? Assuming if it is modular or semi modular.
 
Etherton said:
Its not modular at all.
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You tried all of the PCI-E power cable for the GPU? Or, do you have a spare computer where you can test the GPU? Sorry for asking basic questions like this, just want to isolate what is the issue.
 
Going to swap it out to another one this afternoon. There is only one, I believe, PCI-e PSU cable and one CPU (mobo) cable on this PSU.

Chimpee said:
Sorry for asking basic questions like this, just want to isolate what is the issue.
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I hope it is something simple. :p
 
Like I said above.. pull the mb out of the case and test it on cardboard with just the GPU and cpu/mem installed and see what happens. Check for a mb stand off out of place grounding out on the mb.
 
Etherton said:
I don't think so. Will have to check this afternoon.



Pretty sure this one don't.
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Newer cases often don't have an internal speaker these days. Instead, motherboards will pack in a small modular one that you need to plug in, otherwise you won't get any beeps. See if this one has that little speaker. It goes into the pin array where all the case lights and switches go.
 
eclypse said:
Like I said above.. pull the mb out of the case and test it on cardboard with just the GPU and cpu/mem installed and see what happens. Check for a mb stand off out of place grounding out on the mb.
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I second this too, it is annoying to pull everything out again but want to rule out any ground out issues.
 
Chimpee said:
I second this too, it is annoying to pull everything out again but want to rule out any ground out issues.
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Sucks but atleast he's not water cooling hehe.

It's happened to me a few times over the past 30 so years. Worse when everything works but yet the usb port isint working??? Hehe crazy crap can happen.
 
eclypse said:
Sucks but atleast he's not water cooling hehe.

It's happened to me a few times over the past 30 so years. Worse when everything works but yet the usb port isint working??? Hehe crazy crap can happen.
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It happens to system builders at one point or another, and especially when we have a "doh" moment.
 
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