Help! New build not powering up
So, after purchasing some things I got into building the rig, but had some problems in the process
Specifically
Items:
CPU: Intel i7 3770k
GPU: nVidia N580GTX MSI Twin Frozr III 1.5 Gb
RAM: 2, 2 & 4 gb DDR3 @ 1333
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV Gene Z
PSU: 1000 W Cooler Master Silent Pro M, RS-A00-AMBA-J
These, and an empty 1 TB SATA 3 to put the OS in (didn't want to connect my other HDDs before installing new OS)
So, I put the CPU in, put some paste, seat the cooler (the one which came with the cpu, planning to buy a new one), place the motherboard to the box, seated the ram, hdd, gpu and then I wanted to place the PSU and connect the cables. I ran onto a problem there:
Which cable do I connect here?
If I put off the plastic that covers the other hole it's like this:
The manual which came with the motherboard says this:
On the upper side of the page has an image which shows a 4pin 12V cable connecting to the first part (uncovered) and one identical cable connecting to the covered part
Im not familiar with that type of connector, due to my old motherboard not having one, it only had 14pin hole
So I check my PSU and it has the cable I used to put to my old motherboard which had next to it another one which looks almost the same.
Their only difference is the shape. The first one has 2 rectangular and 2 half reticular half elliptical pins, but the other one has only half reticular and have elliptical ones. The first cable fits exactly on the motherboard, tho the 2nd one does not fit on the part that was covered.
Because it did not fit exactly I only placed the first cable.
Everything set up, I power on my system. GPU fan, PSU fan, box's rear/front fans went on, CPU's fan was dead. Only after 1-2 second it started to move, and only after 6-7 seconds get into full movement, but until it does so, the system shut down (I guess because of the CPU overheating, to prevent it from damaging).
After doing so 3-4 times I re-seated everything, tried again, same thing!
I thought it might be the cooler causing this, so I placed my old one (exact same size). This time it worked, the CPU fan power on almost immediately, but nothing more. No screen powering on, no beep, nothing.
I noticed one timer? next to the start and reset buttons on the motheboard powering on as I started my system, and it kept changing numbers till it stuck to "F2".
What does this mean..?
When it goes to F2, it restarts and again the same thing, till it reaches a point when it stays there.
Also, next to multi pin cable than connects the PSU to the motherboard it has a red led which says "DRAM", but this led is on, unlike the others (CPU, boot device, etc) which are not on.
My guess is that I must have put the wrong voltage ram maybe?
Can you please help me and tell me what's wrong?
So, after purchasing some things I got into building the rig, but had some problems in the process
Specifically
Items:
CPU: Intel i7 3770k
GPU: nVidia N580GTX MSI Twin Frozr III 1.5 Gb
RAM: 2, 2 & 4 gb DDR3 @ 1333
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV Gene Z
PSU: 1000 W Cooler Master Silent Pro M, RS-A00-AMBA-J
These, and an empty 1 TB SATA 3 to put the OS in (didn't want to connect my other HDDs before installing new OS)
So, I put the CPU in, put some paste, seat the cooler (the one which came with the cpu, planning to buy a new one), place the motherboard to the box, seated the ram, hdd, gpu and then I wanted to place the PSU and connect the cables. I ran onto a problem there:
Which cable do I connect here?
If I put off the plastic that covers the other hole it's like this:
The manual which came with the motherboard says this:
On the upper side of the page has an image which shows a 4pin 12V cable connecting to the first part (uncovered) and one identical cable connecting to the covered part
Im not familiar with that type of connector, due to my old motherboard not having one, it only had 14pin hole
So I check my PSU and it has the cable I used to put to my old motherboard which had next to it another one which looks almost the same.
Their only difference is the shape. The first one has 2 rectangular and 2 half reticular half elliptical pins, but the other one has only half reticular and have elliptical ones. The first cable fits exactly on the motherboard, tho the 2nd one does not fit on the part that was covered.
Because it did not fit exactly I only placed the first cable.
Everything set up, I power on my system. GPU fan, PSU fan, box's rear/front fans went on, CPU's fan was dead. Only after 1-2 second it started to move, and only after 6-7 seconds get into full movement, but until it does so, the system shut down (I guess because of the CPU overheating, to prevent it from damaging).
After doing so 3-4 times I re-seated everything, tried again, same thing!
I thought it might be the cooler causing this, so I placed my old one (exact same size). This time it worked, the CPU fan power on almost immediately, but nothing more. No screen powering on, no beep, nothing.
I noticed one timer? next to the start and reset buttons on the motheboard powering on as I started my system, and it kept changing numbers till it stuck to "F2".
What does this mean..?
When it goes to F2, it restarts and again the same thing, till it reaches a point when it stays there.
Also, next to multi pin cable than connects the PSU to the motherboard it has a red led which says "DRAM", but this led is on, unlike the others (CPU, boot device, etc) which are not on.
My guess is that I must have put the wrong voltage ram maybe?
Can you please help me and tell me what's wrong?
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