Newly built system won't POST!

[T3hPwn3r3r]

I'm putting together a new rig and it won't post. The CPU pins are fine, the memory is seated securely, I'm using onboard video... I don't know why it does this. It only starts up and everything powers on, but no beeps and no video.

I did notice my 24 pin power connector only had 23 pins going out, is this normal? There wasn't even a wire running to it.

 

[erocker]

The 24/23 pin thing is normal. I suggest you try using a VGA cable if you are using DVi and vice versa. Is there a motherboard speaker installed?

 

[T3hPwn3r3r]

Yes, but how would the cable make it not POST?

I've tried HDMI and DVI both.

 

[kurosagi01]

does the system power up or anything at all?? have you tried only plugging only the 24pin and the cpu power connector?? does your psu make some weird noise??

 

[IINexusII]

give us the specs

 

[Kreij]

Make sure you don't have a problem with one of your RAM sticks. When I built mine a bad stick stopped it from POSTing.

 

[T3hPwn3r3r]

I'll try it with just 1 stick of RAM, but it's the same RAM (just transferred over from the previous one)
Foxconn 780G
AM2+ Phenom 9600
8gb Geil Black Dragon
Hauppage HVR 1250 TV tuner
320gb/160gb wd drives

 

[T3hPwn3r3r]

Just tried it with 1 2gb stick of RAM... it WORKED!

Now there's the 2 beep error code which I need to research... Also, does this mean one of my 2gb sticks is screwed up?

 

[Kreij]

That was the case with mine. I had 4 x 2GB sticks and one was bad.
It could also be that the mobo is fussy if it is loaded to the max with RAM and you may just have to bump the memory voltage a tad. As always, keep an eye on temps when OC'ing.

 

[T3hPwn3r3r]

Yeah, according to the beep codes I looked up it could be either my memory (but I've tried 5 different 2gb sticks, all 4 GeIL and 1 brand new out of box 2gb Kingston DIMM) or my video.

However, I don't really know how I'd fix the video. I can see nothing on the screen and my actual videocard won't come in until Monday.

 

[Kreij]

Do you have another GC you can try. Anything will do just to see.

 

[T3hPwn3r3r]

Actually, nevermind...

My mistake was of my own stupidity.

I forgot to plug in a keyboard and mouse and it wasn't having it It was giving an error and when I would switch inputs on my monitor it wouldn't detect the input for a while.

 

[erocker]

^^^^


You could try resetting the CMOS to see if it will boot. Most likely you are going to have to wait for your video card as for some reason the onboard video may be turned off.

 

[Kreij]

Thanks T3h, I lol'd. Welcome to the "I got pwned by my computer because of a brain fart" club.

 

[T3hPwn3r3r]

Either way, thanks to all who tried to help I'm sorry I took away from your time over a stupid mistake of my own