new build, no display no beeps :(

craig1928

right I hooked all this up turned on viola, no display and the mobo speaker not doing any beeps, tried removing all RAM no beeps, tried putting the graphics card into another slot, nothing.. the CPU is warm and all so at least it's getting power.. at least.. the 8-pin CPU connector is plugged in as is the 24 pin connector. Here's the specs..

Intel Core i7 950
OCZ 6GB (3X2GB) DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10666
PALIT GTX 460 SONIC 2GB
Corsair H70 Hydro Series CPU Cooler
Asus P6TD Deluxe X58 Socket 1366
Corsair 1000W HX PSU

anyone who can help me figure this out is truely a king among men, seriously. think I'm gonna cry..

thenightrider

1st of sounds like you dont have your motherboard speaker hooked up right or there is something wrong with it.


Is the motherboard powering on fans spining etc ?

Is there a power socket on your graphics card and if so do you have it pluged in to your psu ?

Solitaire

Are both PCIe power cables connected to the GPU? And have you tried resetting the CMOS yet?

craig1928

the motherboard is on, light on, power and reset buttons light up, fans are spinning, the speaker is hooked up right and both PCIe power leads are connected and I've tried resetting the CMOS(I think, I lifted the bottom cap on it and moved it over a notch for 10 seconds then moved it back, says to do this in the manual)

TouchingVirus

From my experience:

Powering a machine up with no RAM (if you can) or no GFX cards will result in a beep, definitely. If you don't have a power cable plugged into the GFX cards properly it'll still display a primitive error message on screen.

So either you haven't plugged in the speaker correctly, or it's shot.

craig1928

speaker's plugged in fine, no beeps with no RAM and GFX installed

DECEiFER

This might be unique to me (d'oh) but when I built my i7 machine in March, I put the RAM in the wrong channel. It seems the DIMM closest to the CPU is the B channel (where on LGA-775 it was the A). This very same thing happened to me, where I'd get no beeps or any sign of life except for the PSU and other fans. If you've done the same, that's your problem, so put the RAM in the right-most DIMMS per section of the same color. Otherwise, please excuse my unique stupidity! :eek:

craig1928

nope it's in the A channel, tried with 1 stick, 3 sticks and no RAM, no beeps no display

DECEiFER

craig1928 wrote: »

nope it's in the A channel, tried with 1 stick, 3 sticks and no RAM, no beeps no display

Tried a CMOS reset?

EDIT: That was already asked, sorry.

Solitaire

Those CMOS jumpers/switches can be tricky - you should always remove the battery then use them, then replace the CMOS battery after 30-40 seconds. Try that

After that you can try a minimum boot (CPU/mobo/GFX/one DIMM) swapping through the DIMMs. After that its time for Swapsies, only I doubt you have a spare LGA1366 mobo/rig to test with You could, however, try swapping in a different PSU just to see if the PSU is the problem

After all that its RMA time for the mobo or PSU.

Curry Addict

reseat your graphics card and remove and check all your connections for pushed pins etc.
power up with the minimum of components, 1 stick of ram, HDD, onboard graphics if u have.

craig1928

Ok I had a look around my components and had a close look at some cabling and noticed this missing from the 24-pin connector, which is apparently a GND, could this be the cause?

Solitaire

Nope, that's normal

craig1928

yeah just had a look inside my brothers pc, ahh well...