new build help

wstein · Jul 31, 2008, 03:34 AM

Hey everyone and thanks in advance for the help...hope I have this in the right forum.

I decided the other day to build myself a new system. Current one I have had for 3 years...a record for me.

Anyways.

I have a MSI K9 SLI-F V2 mobo with a Athlon Phenom 9550 CPU, 2GB of OCZ DDR2 PC2 6400 SLI-ready memory, a WD 80GB SATA drive, a EFX 8800GS PCI-E 2.0 video card and a Ultra LSP 650W PSU.

I assembled it yesterday afternoon, everything went together like my previous past builds. Plugged it in and hooked up my monitor, powered it up and all the fans' spun up, the CD drive chirped, the keyboard lights blinked and that was it...fans spinning and humming and no post information on the monitor screen. Checked the connections, still nothing, removed everything from the case and setup with just video and memory, still no POST. Changed video cards, thinking it was a bad card or the system wasn't recognizing the video card due to it being a PCI-E 2.0 card, nada. Originally I had a 400W PSU, replaced it with the 650W PSU, still nada. Checked MSI's site, verified the CPU was supported, did all the trouble shooting they recommended, still no POST.

Before I go back to CompUSA and swap try to get them to swap the memory/mobo or cpu, is there anything else I can check?

Thanks in advance for your help and or input.

BarbaricSoul · Jul 31, 2008, 11:11 PM

Did you try using just a single stick of RAM?

If that don't do the trick, with everything else you checked already, I would return the motherboard(that's more likely to be DOA than the CPU)

fafa21 · Jul 31, 2008, 11:18 PM

try taking the mobo battery out and outing it back in

wstein · Jul 31, 2008, 11:35 PM

Barbaric, the memory shuffle was one of the first things I checked. The standard swap them from one slot to an other, one stick at a time

.

I took the system into work today, and bugged the helpdesk guys to loan me some RAM. Swapped out the RAM and what do you know!!! System booted up just fine. Took the memory back to CompUSA and they said that sometimes the OCZ memory is buggy with MSI mobo's. Bitched them out since they where selling OCZ memory, MSI mobo, and AMD CPU as a package.

But thanks for the help guys, appreciated it.

Asylum · Aug 1, 2008, 04:22 AM

HAHA...Good job man...atleast you found out what it was pretty easily.

Jul 31, 2008, 03:34 AM	#1
wstein Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 (0.00/day) Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	new build help Hey everyone and thanks in advance for the help...hope I have this in the right forum. I decided the other day to build myself a new system. Current one I have had for 3 years...a record for me. Anyways. I have a MSI K9 SLI-F V2 mobo with a Athlon Phenom 9550 CPU, 2GB of OCZ DDR2 PC2 6400 SLI-ready memory, a WD 80GB SATA drive, a EFX 8800GS PCI-E 2.0 video card and a Ultra LSP 650W PSU. I assembled it yesterday afternoon, everything went together like my previous past builds. Plugged it in and hooked up my monitor, powered it up and all the fans' spun up, the CD drive chirped, the keyboard lights blinked and that was it...fans spinning and humming and no post information on the monitor screen. Checked the connections, still nothing, removed everything from the case and setup with just video and memory, still no POST. Changed video cards, thinking it was a bad card or the system wasn't recognizing the video card due to it being a PCI-E 2.0 card, nada. Originally I had a 400W PSU, replaced it with the 650W PSU, still nada. Checked MSI's site, verified the CPU was supported, did all the trouble shooting they recommended, still no POST. Before I go back to CompUSA and swap try to get them to swap the memory/mobo or cpu, is there anything else I can check? Thanks in advance for your help and or input.

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Motherboard:	MSI Z68A-GD80(G3)/ Gigabyte P55-UD3R
Cooling:	Corsair H60/ Corsair A50
Memory:	8gig(24gig) DDR3 1600/ 4gig(22gig)DDR3 1600
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Case:	Lian Li V1200b Plus II/ NZXT Source 210 Black
Sound Card:	Realtek High Definition Audio
PSU:	XFX PRO750W XXX edition/ PC Power Cooling Turbo Cool 860
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
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Jul 31, 2008, 11:18 PM	#3
fafa21 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: U.S.A. maine portland Posts: 329 (0.14/day) Thanks: 49 Thanked 9 Times in 8 Posts System Specs	try taking the mobo battery out and outing it back in __________________ plz vote http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/1313.html “Despite what some may believe your computer is not "alive", it does not require O2, Food or water...LOL” -Namslas90

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Aug 1, 2008, 04:22 AM	#5
Asylum Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,687 (1.49/day) Thanks: 849 Thanked 657 Times in 502 Posts System Specs	HAHA...Good job man...atleast you found out what it was pretty easily. __________________ My Bad Company 2 team is recruiting. Stop by and check us out. -GuNS- CLAN HEATWARE LINK Rate My Rig

Jul 31, 2008, 11:11 PM	#2
BarbaricSoul Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Southeastern Virginia Posts: 3,777 (1.94/day) Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,104 Times in 812 Posts System Specs	Did you try using just a single stick of RAM? If that don't do the trick, with everything else you checked already, I would return the motherboard(that's more likely to be DOA than the CPU)

Jul 31, 2008, 11:35 PM	#4
wstein Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 (0.00/day) Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Barbaric, the memory shuffle was one of the first things I checked. The standard swap them from one slot to an other, one stick at a time . I took the system into work today, and bugged the helpdesk guys to loan me some RAM. Swapped out the RAM and what do you know!!! System booted up just fine. Took the memory back to CompUSA and they said that sometimes the OCZ memory is buggy with MSI mobo's. Bitched them out since they where selling OCZ memory, MSI mobo, and AMD CPU as a package. But thanks for the help guys, appreciated it.

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Motherboard:	EVGA X58 760 Classified
Cooling:	Water Cooling
Memory:	3x2Gig Kingston Hyper X 2100Mhz
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Hard Disk:	2 X Vertex 2 60GB in RAID 0
Optical Drive:	2 x Sony DVD-RW
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Sound Card:	X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
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