P5N-E SLI No post No beeps

[ttysco]

I just bought a brand new computer, P5N-E Sli motherboard, E6300, 8800gts, Corsair HX520w, Corsair 6200 memory.

I build everything and put it all together and the computer doesn't post. All the fans spin but cant boot to bios. I try all sorts of combinations such as removing memory, unplugging all the drives, re-seating everything, etc. Along with reseting cmos and many other things.

I even trying to boot it outside the case. Probably every combination you can think of of components to get something to post.

Along with the no posting no matter what i plug in I do not get any beep errors. No memory missing or Graphics card missing error. Not a single beep.

I was wondering if anyone had any more ideas on what could be the problem or is it just a bad motherboard, cpu, or psu? And if it is one of those is there any way to determine which one.

 

[snaggletooth]

install only what you need to power on. double check every single power connector. make sure you have plugged in the 4-pin ATX cable, the plug is located to the upper-left of the cpu. check your riser locations, make sure your motherboard or other is not somehow grounding out to your case.


make sure your heatsink is seated correctly. i'm sure you have made sure, but make sure again! thank goodness modern chips are almost impossible to burn out. your system wont post if the heatsink isn't installed correctly.

your PSU seems to be working but try hooking a couple of fans up to your power supply and jump-start (just for a couple seconds!) it to make sure that it's not the power supply. http://www.hardwaremods.com/guides/psu_jump/psu_jumping.html

something easily overlooked as well, if you don't have a pcspeaker hooked up to the motherboard you wont receive any error beeps.

remove your CPU and have it tested on a different computer, many pc repair shops would be more than happy to do that for you for free. if you're unable to run memtest from your location with your ram, see if they'll run a quick test on it too.

if everything else checks out and still nothing's resolved, get your RMA ticket number for your motherboard.

 

[ttysco]

Did all that... finally gave up after 6 hours of work. I have never had this many problems with building a new computer, this like the 30th one i built.

I've read around and saw a lot of people got this board from newegg doa. I was wondering if anyone else here had the same problem.