Solve : First Boot, Nothing?

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Answer» Well, my first attempt at building my own computer (outside of a college hardware class) isn't going quite as I had hoped... Let's get the specs out of the way first: MOBO: Asus Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ CPU: AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 PSU: Thermaltake TR2 W0070RUC 430W ATX12V V2.2 Video card: EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti DVD Drive: PLEXTOR 24X Internal DVD Super Multi Drive Monitor: Dell flat panel monitor, don't know the specific type or model number. Case: XCLIO Black steel ATX Tower I spent most of yesterday putting it together from scratch, hooked it up to the monitor and attempted to start it for the first time today. On starting it, I didn't hear even a SINGLE beep, and nothing came up on the monitor. I opened it back up, and initially thought it was only because I had forgotten to plug the power cable into the video card, but closing it and starting it a second time got no better results. I toyed with it a bit more, removing the keyboard and starting it again, then removing the RAM and starting it again, still without hearing even a single beep. I checked the internal speaker and tried it in various positions, but the initial one I had it in did appear to be the correct one. As near as I can tell, everything is hooked up correctly, the processor FAN spins for as long as it's on, the DVD drive operates properly, the hard drive seems to be functioning fine, and the graphics card is definitely in the right slot and properly hooked up now. Any thoughts or advice on what steps I should take to start eliminating POSSIBLE problems and get this thing working?Quote from: Fernin320 on January 06, 2012, 02:40:36 PM nothing came up on the monitor. Does the monitor work when hooked up to another computer? Try this... Disconnect the hard drive, DVD player, and remove all ram modules except for 1. Also, disconnect external speakers, mouse, and keyboard as well. Try starting up again. We're not trying to get the system to boot into Windows, we just want to see if we can get it to display the bios SPLASH screen, which it will do if everything is working, even if there is no hard drive installed and the other stuff I mentioned. Well, I feel rather silly now... On opening it up to try your suggestion, I decided to double check on the processor, just to make sure... Turns out, I hadn't pushed it all the way in initially. >< :shameface: Thanks for the suggestion, at least, it's working perfectly fine now.

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Well, my first attempt at building my own computer (outside of a college hardware class) isn't going quite as I had hoped...

Let's get the specs out of the way first:

MOBO: Asus Sabertooth 990FX AM3+
CPU: AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 W0070RUC 430W ATX12V V2.2
Video card: EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti
DVD Drive: PLEXTOR 24X Internal DVD Super Multi Drive
Monitor: Dell flat panel monitor, don't know the specific type or model number.
Case: XCLIO Black steel ATX Tower

I spent most of yesterday putting it together from scratch, hooked it up to the monitor and attempted to start it for the first time today. On starting it, I didn't hear even a SINGLE beep, and nothing came up on the monitor. I opened it back up, and initially thought it was only because I had forgotten to plug the power cable into the video card, but closing it and starting it a second time got no better results. I toyed with it a bit more, removing the keyboard and starting it again, then removing the RAM and starting it again, still without hearing even a single beep. I checked the internal speaker and tried it in various positions, but the initial one I had it in did appear to be the correct one. As near as I can tell, everything is hooked up correctly, the processor FAN spins for as long as it's on, the DVD drive operates properly, the hard drive seems to be functioning fine, and the graphics card is definitely in the right slot and properly hooked up now. Any thoughts or advice on what steps I should take to start eliminating POSSIBLE problems and get this thing working?Quote from: Fernin320 on January 06, 2012, 02:40:36 PM

nothing came up on the monitor.

Does the monitor work when hooked up to another computer?

Try this... Disconnect the hard drive, DVD player, and remove all ram modules except for 1.
Also, disconnect external speakers, mouse, and keyboard as well.

Try starting up again. We're not trying to get the system to boot into Windows, we just want to see if we can get it to display the bios SPLASH screen, which it will do if everything is working, even if there is no hard drive installed and the other stuff I mentioned. Well, I feel rather silly now...

On opening it up to try your suggestion, I decided to double check on the processor, just to make sure... Turns out, I hadn't pushed it all the way in initially. ><

:shameface:

Thanks for the suggestion, at least, it's working perfectly fine now.

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