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entermymatrix03

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I recieved my Silverstone ST60F 600w psu today. I hooked it up in my pc and now my pc will not boot. everything powers up but i do not get anything on my screen and my monitors light stays orange meaning no video is reaching it. Can someone tell me if i have something hooked up wrong? i have the 2 pci-e connectors going to my 2 7900gt's, 4 plugs going to my 2 hdds and 2 dvd drives. whats going on here?
 
Athlon 64 4000+
2x Evga 7900gt's
2 dvd drives
2 120gb hdds
2gb mushkin pc3200 ram

i tried running only one card and i get the same thing. think maybe the psu is dead?
 
STOP.

Did all of this work PRIOR to installing this PSU?

If so, what changed IN ADDITION TO the PSU?
 
yup. everything is connected and everything worked fine this morning before work. I get home, hook up the psu and now no video. i can feel the hdds rolling, the dvd drives crank up, and my mobo's light is green meaning it is getting power. all of my fans are running also.

this psu was recommened to me in another thread. my apevia ran everything fine so i know the silverstone should.
 
sorry, typing in haste and freaking out!

Asus A8N SLi Premium

Please don't tell me i'm going to have RMA this thing....:(
 
Pull all connectors from all drive. Pull IDE/SATA cables from board. Only have power going to motherboard. Try. Nothing? Pull out video cards. Should get "no video beep code" Anything?
 
i pulled all of the drives out of my case. no go. pulled out the video card....still no go and no beep. i reset my CMOS also and still no go. come to think of it my machine has never beeped anyways, even at boot.

what now?

the only thing i can think is i may have shorted something in the psu. at first i had my two 7900gt's plugged up via one pci-e connector apiece. i turned on the system and it was a no go. i then read the paper and hooked it up with one pci-e connector and one molex to pci-e connector. no go. i then took out one card and tried it and still no go.

like i said, everything was working fine this morning before i left for work....
 
entermymatrix03 said:
i pulled all of the drives out of my case. no go. pulled out the video card....still no go and no beep. i reset my CMOS also and still no go. come to think of it my machine has never beeped anyways, even at boot.
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Then make sure there's a speaker hooked up to the board or on the board! :D :D :D

Now pull the RAM and see if it beeps.
 
jonnyGURU said:
Then make sure there's a speaker hooked up to the board or on the board! :D :D :D
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Haha....you know how many times I have done that!
 
Update!-

i don't have a speaker on my Thermaltake Tsunami case.

i took out all of my components and hooked up my old psu to the mobo. 1 stick of ram, 1 videocard.....still no video.

that is the only pci-e mobo i have and no one around me has one that i could try my cards out in. the mobo is getting power and nothing really indicates there is a problem with it. think hooking up my videocards the way i did the first time killed them? i tried both of them seperately and neither one produced an image.

ok guys...what now?
 
does this sound more like a dead mobo or 2 dead videocards to you guys? the crazy thing is that the psu was powering everything else...just no video would show up.

the only other thing i can think of is i hit a cap on the mobo while installing the psu. its a wiggly, but nothing to be concerned with. if that would have been it then the whole mobo wouldn't have come on correct?

what sucks about the whole situation is that i have nothing else to test my stuff with. I can buy all new parts...but my parts aren't but 1 month old at best. the mobo was an open box deal at newegg and the videocards came from the egg and they are eVGA.

really freaking out about this right now!!!
 
Have you tested the mobo with a different vid card? (i.e. not one of your 7900gt's) And try it in both video slots.

I seriously doubt both vid cards got borked simultaneously. More likely it's a mobo issue, but you need to get a speaker hooked up to that thing and listen to any beep codes it's giving. That would give you better info than all the speculations this forum could produce.
 
i don't have any other pci-e video cards. :( i have tried both of mine in both slots though and neither one produce any video.

i am also seriously doubting its the two cards. i will try and pull a speaker out of an old case tonight and hook it up and see what i get.
 
Follow my advice. I'm trying to teach you troubleshooting 101.

You need a speaker for the motherboard. Don't post again until you have one.

Once you have a speaker plugged into the motherboard, fire up the motherboard with NO RAM and NO video cards. Essentially, you'll have only three components: the PSU, the motherboard and the PSU.

Fire up your trio and see if it beeps. If it doesn't, it's not the RAM and it's not the video card because they're not understand.

Do you see now where I've been leading you?

So now if your board doesn't beep, you're going to want to pull it out of the case and set it on something non-conductive and try it again. Why? It could be shorting out on the bottom. Maybe something fell behind the board when you were switching out the PSU's. Who knows. But you try it.

So if it still doesn't work, and you have two PSU's to try so you can narrow that down, then you know it's either a dead CPU or dead board.

Let's say the board DOES beep.

Put the RAM in BUT NOT THE VIDEO CARD. The beep should change. If it doesn't, the problem may be the RAM, but you can try one stick at a time. If it does, the try the video card one card at a time. You can do this outside of the case as well.
 
i'm at work right now. i will see if we have an old pc with a speaker on it here.

so even if it turns out to by my mobo, the green light and all would still come on and make it look like its functioning properly? i'm pretty expierenced with computers, but i thought if the mobo was dead, nothing happened. now i can't wait to get home and try this and find out whats going on.

what do you think may have caused a problem just by swapping out the psu?

also, i haven't said it before, but thanks a lot for your help. I'll post back later and let you know what the speaker tells me.
 
entermymatrix03 said:
i'm at work right now. i will see if we have an old pc with a speaker on it here.

so even if it turns out to by my mobo, the green light and all would still come on and make it look like its functioning properly?
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Of course. A motherboard is an ensemble of many components. All it takes is for one to not work. You have a light? All that means is that your motherboard is getting +5VSB from the power supply. Nothing else.


entermymatrix03 said:
what do you think may have caused a problem just by swapping out the psu?
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Anything. I wasn't there, so I don't know.
 
i called Asus to see about an RMA because the board is only 1 month old if that. the rep picks up the phone and takes my basic info. i tell him i have an Asus A8n sli premium and he says what is the problem...before i say anythign he says "let me guess, no video right?" Whoa, first shot and a homerun! i asked if this was a common problem with this board and he kinda snickered and said if i send it in they will fix it. lol. i'm gonna try the other stuff tonight also just to determain and ease my mind that my cpu or $500 worth of video cards isn't dead.

I guess it was all bad timing or maybe the psu killed my mobo? how can i tell that?
 
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