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just completed piecing together system...
ASUS M2N-E Motherboard AMD 3800 AM2 1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB Maxtor SATAII HDD HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU onto the problemhere is a description of how i pieced together the system... I put the processor into its socket, put the heatsink cooler on, placed the ram into its slots, screwed the PSU into the case screwed the mainboard into the case put the hard drive and cd drives into the case and plugged a power cable into them from the PSU, put the motherboard into the case and screwed it down, put wireless network card into case and PCI-E graphics card into case (apparantly the asus geforce 7600 GS silenced card doesnt require a power cable so i didnt put one in, not that there was a slot for one) hooked up the SATA cable to the hdd and the IDE cable to the DVD ROM and the DVD RW. Plugged the power supply 20 pin cable into the motherboard and the extension 4 pin cable next to the 20 pin cable, I also pligged in the 4 pin P4 connector where it said to plug it in the motherboard manual. I then cabled up the header as described in the manual, the power LED and the Power Switch etc. I then took the power cable plugged it into a plug socket at the wall and into the power supply, i flicked the switch on the wall to on, and then flicked the switch on the power supply from 0 to 1 to indicate on I had already plugged monitor keyboard mouse etc into a monitor, ****PROBLEM STARTS HERE**** pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I switch the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something was powering down when i did this) I then switched off the wall plug Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the 20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the motherboard and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged it back in. I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check, usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the board that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....???? i tried pressing the power switch again on the front of case several times, and the reset switch but i knew nothing was going to happen, I just spent the best part of a day demolishing my old system and putting all this stuff into the case. Can anyone please help me or tell me where the problem might lie so i know what to RMA? one thing i should mention is that the power cable going into the PSU from the socket on the wall, when i unplug it and then plug it back in there is a slight "click" its only faint just a small slight "click" only when i plug it back in, could this be relevant? also for the record i used an anti static wrist band, the first time i ever have done so when building and i get problems, i never used one in the past and everything went smooth. any help as to how this can perhaps be fixed or what i should RMA or check would be helpful, thanks. Christo |
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"Christo" chris@ no spamming juststuff.co.uk wrote in message ... just completed piecing together system... ASUS M2N-E Motherboard AMD 3800 AM2 1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB Maxtor SATAII HDD HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU ****PROBLEM STARTS HERE**** pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I switch the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something was powering down when i did this) I then switched off the wall plug Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the 20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the motherboard and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged it back in. I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check, usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the board that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....???? Sounds like a dead power supply. That power supply was probably dead before it left the factory. Do yourself a favor and buy a good one to replace it, such as a seasonic or enermax brand. On a side note, you should be glad it never powered on. A cheap power supply like that is likely to kill all your other components. -Dave |
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"Mike T." wrote in message reenews.net... "Christo" chris@ no spamming juststuff.co.uk wrote in message ... just completed piecing together system... ASUS M2N-E Motherboard AMD 3800 AM2 1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB Maxtor SATAII HDD HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU ****PROBLEM STARTS HERE**** pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I switch the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something was powering down when i did this) I then switched off the wall plug Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the 20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the motherboard and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged it back in. I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check, usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the board that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....???? Sounds like a dead power supply. That power supply was probably dead before it left the factory. Do yourself a favor and buy a good one to replace it, such as a seasonic or enermax brand. On a side note, you should be glad it never powered on. A cheap power supply like that is likely to kill all your other components. -Dave its not cheap hiper is good it cost 50 pounds lol i just ordered a new 480w antec psu |
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"Christo" chris@ no spamming juststuff.co.uk wrote in message ... just completed piecing together system... ASUS M2N-E Motherboard AMD 3800 AM2 1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB Maxtor SATAII HDD HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU onto the problemhere is a description of how i pieced together the system... I put the processor into its socket, put the heatsink cooler on, placed the ram into its slots, screwed the PSU into the case screwed the mainboard into the case put the hard drive and cd drives into the case and plugged a power cable into them from the PSU, put the motherboard into the case and screwed it down, there is the problem....two MB's in the same case ...;^) put wireless network card into case and PCI-E graphics card into case (apparantly the asus geforce 7600 GS silenced card doesnt require a power cable so i didnt put one in, not that there was a slot for one) hooked up the SATA cable to the hdd and the IDE cable to the DVD ROM and the DVD RW. Plugged the power supply 20 pin cable into the motherboard and the extension 4 pin cable next to the 20 pin cable, I also pligged in the 4 pin P4 connector where it said to plug it in the motherboard manual. I then cabled up the header as described in the manual, the power LED and the Power Switch etc. I then took the power cable plugged it into a plug socket at the wall and into the power supply, i flicked the switch on the wall to on, and then flicked the switch on the power supply from 0 to 1 to indicate on I had already plugged monitor keyboard mouse etc into a monitor, ****PROBLEM STARTS HERE**** pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I switch the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something was powering down when i did this) I then switched off the wall plug Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the 20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the motherboard and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged it back in. I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check, usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the board that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....???? i tried pressing the power switch again on the front of case several times, and the reset switch but i knew nothing was going to happen, I just spent the best part of a day demolishing my old system and putting all this stuff into the case. Can anyone please help me or tell me where the problem might lie so i know what to RMA? one thing i should mention is that the power cable going into the PSU from the socket on the wall, when i unplug it and then plug it back in there is a slight "click" its only faint just a small slight "click" only when i plug it back in, could this be relevant? also for the record i used an anti static wrist band, the first time i ever have done so when building and i get problems, i never used one in the past and everything went smooth. any help as to how this can perhaps be fixed or what i should RMA or check would be helpful, thanks. strip it down to the bootable minimums and try to post |
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Try unpluging all IDE, Sata, floppy and any other removable storage
drives from the motherboard, and take out all cards except the video card. Unless you have onboard video, then use that. Once all ide drives and unnecessary cards are unpluged try to power up the system. If this doesn't work, reseat the processor, reseat the ram chips, reset bio to default settings via bios jumper. You can even try powering it up without the video card and see if you get system beeps. If you still get nothing, it's probally the Power Supply or Motherboard. Does the power supply fan turn on? If not, I'd RMA that first or both Happens to all of us. Seems like everytime I buy a new mobo, the first one comes DOA. Izzy Christo wrote: just completed piecing together system... ASUS M2N-E Motherboard AMD 3800 AM2 1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB Maxtor SATAII HDD HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU onto the problemhere is a description of how i pieced together the system... I put the processor into its socket, put the heatsink cooler on, placed the ram into its slots, screwed the PSU into the case screwed the mainboard into the case put the hard drive and cd drives into the case and plugged a power cable into them from the PSU, put the motherboard into the case and screwed it down, put wireless network card into case and PCI-E graphics card into case (apparantly the asus geforce 7600 GS silenced card doesnt require a power cable so i didnt put one in, not that there was a slot for one) hooked up the SATA cable to the hdd and the IDE cable to the DVD ROM and the DVD RW. Plugged the power supply 20 pin cable into the motherboard and the extension 4 pin cable next to the 20 pin cable, I also pligged in the 4 pin P4 connector where it said to plug it in the motherboard manual. I then cabled up the header as described in the manual, the power LED and the Power Switch etc. I then took the power cable plugged it into a plug socket at the wall and into the power supply, i flicked the switch on the wall to on, and then flicked the switch on the power supply from 0 to 1 to indicate on I had already plugged monitor keyboard mouse etc into a monitor, ****PROBLEM STARTS HERE**** pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I switch the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something was powering down when i did this) I then switched off the wall plug Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the 20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the motherboard and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged it back in. I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check, usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the board that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....???? i tried pressing the power switch again on the front of case several times, and the reset switch but i knew nothing was going to happen, I just spent the best part of a day demolishing my old system and putting all this stuff into the case. Can anyone please help me or tell me where the problem might lie so i know what to RMA? one thing i should mention is that the power cable going into the PSU from the socket on the wall, when i unplug it and then plug it back in there is a slight "click" its only faint just a small slight "click" only when i plug it back in, could this be relevant? also for the record i used an anti static wrist band, the first time i ever have done so when building and i get problems, i never used one in the past and everything went smooth. any help as to how this can perhaps be fixed or what i should RMA or check would be helpful, thanks. Christo |
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"Israel Richner" wrote in message ups.com... Try unpluging all IDE, Sata, floppy and any other removable storage drives from the motherboard, and take out all cards except the video card. Unless you have onboard video, then use that. Once all ide drives and unnecessary cards are unpluged try to power up the system. If this doesn't work, reseat the processor, reseat the ram chips, reset bio to default settings via bios jumper. You can even try powering it up without the video card and see if you get system beeps. If you still get nothing, it's probally the Power Supply or Motherboard. Does the power supply fan turn on? If not, I'd RMA that first or both Happens to all of us. Seems like everytime I buy a new mobo, the first one comes DOA. Izzy yeah nothing at all happens if the processor wasnt seated properly or there was a ram error or something then surely the system would still POST i would just get errors from the BIOS sadly i think its going to be the motherboard the more i think about it and if it is then im going to be very angry lol ah well, fingers crossed for tomorrow eh? |
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