trouble shooting first build

mraie

hi guys

This is the build I am working on

4GB-Kit GEIL ram
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
Intel Core i5-760
Point of View GeForce GTX460
Samsung SpinPoint F3
XFX 650 Watt XXX Power Supply Modular
Cooler Master HAF 932

Build this yesterday, and did the first post this morning. Got a long sequnce of continous shortbeeps. Took everything off the motherboard.Took the motherboard from the case reseated the CPU and tried to post outside case without anything attached except the cpu fan, the 24 pin and 8 pin power supply attacted, same beeps. What is the problem, is it the motherboards? what else can I try. many thanks

DECEiFER

Apparently it's a power error. I looked at the manual, at the very bottom of page 111 (http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-p55a-ud3_v2.0_e.pdf) to find this information.

"Continuous short beeps: Power error"


Check your PSU and connections and see if that works or if the beeps change to some other rhythm.

Curry Addict

when u reseated the cpu did you reapply thermal paste to the top of the cpu?

mraie

hi there, did apply new paste. was reading up that could be ram or the motherboard as well as the power supply. Going to try the build again and mess around with the ram position. Have a friend who has a multi meter going to check the voltages from the power supply to try and narrow it down.

massy086

im going with ram

mraie

hi guys, just to update you guys, restarted the build, reseated everything, think the problem was either the ram in wrong position or not seated correctly. Posted first time. Delighted. Have just installed Win 7 and working thorugh drivers, have Call of duty ready to install can't wait.