Gone from no boot to no video- help!!

ibFoxer

Hey guys, have a wee problem with a newish build. Basically it goes as follows:

A p5qe mobo, q6600 with a tuniq 120 cooler, 8 gb corsair ram, hd5770 gfx, will have to double check the psu. First problem was it wouldn't boot to windows when using an existing hdd with win7 64 bit ultimate already installed. I tried to install an IDE optical drive to try and do a disc repair but it didn't see the drive- everything was working fine, could boot into ubuntu up to this point. I changed the ide to a sata and now it gives me a no video signal.

Checked the gfx in another pc, it's fine, have no way to check the ram. I'm wondering have I damaged the mobo or what way do I go about checking it, or indeed what do I do next? Have to stress everything was working to the point just before the windows boot up to the time I changed the optical drive.

Cheers

ibFoxer

Update- after a quick reshuffle of the ram I can now boot from disc, I'm installing the drivers but do I need to do them all or just the chipset?

Monotype

Usually the chipset will do in windows 7 as it's pretty good at finding what you need. You'll find out pretty quickly if you are missing anything.

You'll obviously need graphics card etc.

ibFoxer

Monotype wrote: »

Usually the chipset will do in windows 7 as it's pretty good at finding what you need. You'll find out pretty quickly if you are missing anything.

You'll obviously need graphics card etc.

After multiple attempts i just did a fresh install :-/

Currently sitting in front of the screen wondering what programmes i had on my desktop. I'm getting very Sgt. Murtaugh

Monotype

A clean install is definitely the best.

If you can't remember what you had, then you probably didn't use them.

ibFoxer

Monotype wrote: »

If you can't remember what you had, then you probably didn't use them.

Does that stand to reason for all walks of life

But ya, your not very wrong there. Everything is running very well, next step is to OC that sumbitch, 3.0gh mayhaps

BigEejit

3ghz is easy on a q6600 on air

Skerries

foxerv1 wrote: »

Does that stand to reason for all walks of life

But ya, your not very wrong there. Everything is running very well, next step is to OC that sumbitch, 3.0gh mayhaps

hell yeah! i always worry that some programs i had installed are going to be missed but when you do a nice fresh install you don't need it until you do and then just reinstall

ibFoxer

BigEejit wrote: »

3ghz is easy on a q6600 on air

Yep, except 2 bluescreens and a non boot later it's still 2.4ghz. A simple operation turns difficult.

BigEejit

First 3 results on google:

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t303099.html
http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/387626-overclock-q6600-p5q-e-bios-help.html
http://forums.hexus.net/help-technical-advisory/144693-help-overclocking-q6600-p5q-e.html

ibFoxer

BigEejit wrote: »

First 3 results on google:

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t303099.html
http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/387626-overclock-q6600-p5q-e-bios-help.html
http://forums.hexus.net/help-technical-advisory/144693-help-overclocking-q6600-p5q-e.html

Tried em all, none of them worked out well. Thanks though.