Solve : Can someone please help me? This is my first build.?

1.	Solve : Can someone please help me? This is my first build.?
Answer» I put together my first build today and I start it up and the machine will shut itself down after about 30 seconds. When I first start it I get a single beep from the MoBo and then it will allow me to go to the BIOS. Once in the BIOS I LOOK around in the settings but then for no apparent reason it will shut off on its own. Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated. I won't be responding for some time because I will be at work but thank you for any help you can give. Also I can see the PSU fan spinning, the cpu fan spinning, all the other fans and lights are on and spinning. I have connected the 24 pin main power and the atx power. I'm 75% sure all the connections inside are correct. There is one cable coming from the PSU that says "P9" on it, whats that? Final thing is when I'm in the BIOS how do I know the MoBo is recognizing my optical drive?It would help us, immensely, if you could give us some detailed specs about your custom built computer...from the motherboard on up. We need to know the make and model of the hardware in your computer before we can help you with it. Thanks in advance...Ok I have: MOBO: ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus PSU: OCZ 600W stealth x stream power supply CPU: Intel C2D E6600 2.4 ghz Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 640mb G.Skill DDR2 RAM 2GB If there is anything else please let me know.Rather then take a lot of time on this forum trying to determine exactly what it is that may be causing the ISSUE...you might want to start here: http://support.asus.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.aspx?SLanguage=en-us Troubleshooting it here on the forum could be a little time consuming and you might be better off starting at the above link on your own and let us know if you are still experiencing any issues. I would suggest you use the following link above, as well as retracing your buil to see if maybe you missed a step or jumper setting. There's always the possibility of a poor connection, dirty CONTACT, bad memory...or just plain faulty hardware. If your hardware came with installation manuals...double-check everything and make sure you haven't missed anything...especially settings in BIOS. A short beep is not an abnormal sound when it comes to turning the PC on. The fact that it goes straight to the BIOS screen may be an indication you have missed a setting somewhere. Please post back and let us kknow if we can be of any further assistance...but like I said, your instruction manuals and the above link is a great place to start.Quote from: franks2121 on June 08, 2007, 03:01:32 PM the machine will shut itself down after about 30 seconds. When I first start it I get a single beep from the MoBo and then it will allow me to go to the BIOS. Final thing is when I'm in the BIOS how do I know the MoBo is recognizing my optical drive? This could be for a couple of reasons. The good thing is that your motherboard posts. that's the single beep you hear. One reason could be that your system is overheating. sometimes certain motherboards will cut off power or restart the system if the internal temperature is too high. make sure you're getting proper airflow through the system, and make sure you applied enough thermal paste to the processor (although with 775 socket processors the thermal paste comes applied to the heatsink RIGHT out of the box). Also, check to make sure your power supply is good and is supplying enough wattage to run all of the components. if you used a power supply that came with the CASE, it might not be enough wattage. As for your optical drive, usually the first screen within the BIOS shows all your devices connected to your IDE and SATA interfaces. if your optical drive doesn't show there, something's probably wrong. Check these things and check back with us. Ok thank you guys so much for the help. I need to get some more thermal paste tomorrow and then I will try to re apply the fan for the CPU. As well as a few other things. You're welcome... Please...keep us posted.WWOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!! Got it running. Thank you all so much for the help. BUT now I have one last thing to figure out. And I know it's my fault. When I try to get the computer to load my OS it gives me a "disk boot failure" message. I believe it is because I didn't plug my optical drive into my mobo. This is my drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151145 I have my HDD hooked up but it is a SATA. I'm not sure if my drive uses OEM. Please tell me how to hook up my optical drive. Thank you once again.Check it out: http://www.samsungodd.com/Eng/ Click on User Manuals and find your optical drive. Since you have a SATA drive, you may have to use a separate IDE cable and set the jumper on the optical drive to Master and plug the other end of the IDE cable to an open IDE slot on the mobo.

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I put together my first build today and I start it up and the machine will shut itself down after about 30 seconds. When I first start it I get a single beep from the MoBo and then it will allow me to go to the BIOS.

Once in the BIOS I LOOK around in the settings but then for no apparent reason it will shut off on its own. Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated. I won't be responding for some time because I will be at work but thank you for any help you can give.

Also I can see the PSU fan spinning, the cpu fan spinning, all the other fans and lights are on and spinning. I have connected the 24 pin main power and the atx power. I'm 75% sure all the connections inside are correct. There is one cable coming from the PSU that says "P9" on it, whats that?

Final thing is when I'm in the BIOS how do I know the MoBo is recognizing my optical drive?It would help us, immensely, if you could give us some detailed specs about your custom built computer...from the motherboard on up.

We need to know the make and model of the hardware in your computer before we can help you with it.

Thanks in advance...Ok I have:

MOBO: ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus
PSU: OCZ 600W stealth x stream power supply
CPU: Intel C2D E6600 2.4 ghz
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 640mb
G.Skill DDR2 RAM 2GB

If there is anything else please let me know.Rather then take a lot of time on this forum trying to determine exactly what it is that may be causing the ISSUE...you might want to start here:

http://support.asus.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Troubleshooting it here on the forum could be a little time consuming and you might be better off starting at the above link on your own and let us know if you are still experiencing any issues.

I would suggest you use the following link above, as well as retracing your buil to see if maybe you missed a step or jumper setting.

There's always the possibility of a poor connection, dirty CONTACT, bad memory...or just plain faulty hardware.

If your hardware came with installation manuals...double-check everything and make sure you haven't missed anything...especially settings in BIOS.

A short beep is not an abnormal sound when it comes to turning the PC on. The fact that it goes straight to the BIOS screen may be an indication you have missed a setting somewhere.

Please post back and let us kknow if we can be of any further assistance...but like I said, your instruction manuals and the above link is a great place to start.Quote from: franks2121 on June 08, 2007, 03:01:32 PM

the machine will shut itself down after about 30 seconds. When I first start it I get a single beep from the MoBo and then it will allow me to go to the BIOS.

Final thing is when I'm in the BIOS how do I know the MoBo is recognizing my optical drive?

This could be for a couple of reasons. The good thing is that your motherboard posts. that's the single beep you hear.

One reason could be that your system is overheating. sometimes certain motherboards will cut off power or restart the system if the internal temperature is too high. make sure you're getting proper airflow through the system, and make sure you applied enough thermal paste to the processor (although with 775 socket processors the thermal paste comes applied to the heatsink RIGHT out of the box).

Also, check to make sure your power supply is good and is supplying enough wattage to run all of the components. if you used a power supply that came with the CASE, it might not be enough wattage.

As for your optical drive, usually the first screen within the BIOS shows all your devices connected to your IDE and SATA interfaces. if your optical drive doesn't show there, something's probably wrong.

Check these things and check back with us.

Ok thank you guys so much for the help. I need to get some more thermal paste tomorrow and then I will try to re apply the fan for the CPU. As well as a few other things. You're welcome...

Please...keep us posted.WWOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!! Got it running. Thank you all so much for the help. BUT now I have one last thing to figure out. And I know it's my fault. When I try to get the computer to load my OS it gives me a "disk boot failure" message. I believe it is because I didn't plug my optical drive into my mobo.

This is my drive:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151145

I have my HDD hooked up but it is a SATA. I'm not sure if my drive uses OEM. Please tell me how to hook up my optical drive. Thank you once again.Check it out:

http://www.samsungodd.com/Eng/

Click on User Manuals and find your optical drive.

Since you have a SATA drive, you may have to use a separate IDE cable and set the jumper on the optical drive to Master and plug the other end of the IDE cable to an open IDE slot on the mobo.

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