Major Problem Please Help

[Christo]

just completed piecing together system...

ASUS M2N-E Motherboard
AMD 3800 AM2
1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM
PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB
Maxtor SATAII HDD
HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU

onto the problemhere is a description of how i pieced together the system...

I put the processor into its socket, put the heatsink cooler on, placed the
ram into its slots,

screwed the PSU into the case
screwed the mainboard into the case

put the hard drive and cd drives into the case and plugged a power cable
into them from the PSU,

put the motherboard into the case and screwed it down,

put wireless network card into case and PCI-E graphics card into case

(apparantly the asus geforce 7600 GS silenced card doesnt require a power
cable so i didnt put one in, not that there was a slot for one)

hooked up the SATA cable to the hdd and the IDE cable to the DVD ROM and the
DVD RW.

Plugged the power supply 20 pin cable into the motherboard and the extension
4 pin cable next to the 20 pin cable, I also pligged in the 4 pin P4
connector where it said to plug it in the motherboard manual.

I then cabled up the header as described in the manual, the power LED and
the Power Switch etc.

I then took the power cable plugged it into a plug socket at the wall and
into the power supply, i flicked the switch on the wall to on, and then
flicked the switch on the power supply from 0 to 1 to indicate on

I had already plugged monitor keyboard mouse etc into a monitor,


****PROBLEM STARTS HERE****

pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I switch
the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something was
powering down when i did this)

I then switched off the wall plug

Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch
and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the
20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the motherboard
and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged it
back in.

I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check,
usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the board
that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this
LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....????

i tried pressing the power switch again on the front of case several times,
and the reset switch but i knew nothing was going to happen, I just spent
the best part of a day demolishing my old system and putting all this stuff
into the case.

Can anyone please help me or tell me where the problem might lie so i know
what to RMA?

one thing i should mention is that the power cable going into the PSU from
the socket on the wall, when i unplug it and then plug it back in there is a
slight "click" its only faint just a small slight "click" only when i plug
it back in, could this be relevant?

also for the record i used an anti static wrist band, the first time i ever
have done so when building and i get problems, i never used one in the past
and everything went smooth.

any help as to how this can perhaps be fixed or what i should RMA or check
would be helpful, thanks.

Christo

 

[Mike T.]

just completed piecing together system...

ASUS M2N-E Motherboard
AMD 3800 AM2
1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM
PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB
Maxtor SATAII HDD
HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU
****PROBLEM STARTS HERE****

pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I
switch
the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something
was
powering down when i did this)

I then switched off the wall plug

Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch
and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the
20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the
motherboard
and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged
it
back in.

I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check,
usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the
board
that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this
LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....????

Sounds like a dead power supply. That power supply was probably dead before
it left the factory. Do yourself a favor and buy a good one to replace it,
such as a seasonic or enermax brand.

On a side note, you should be glad it never powered on. A cheap power
supply like that is likely to kill all your other components. -Dave

 

[Christo]

Sounds like a dead power supply. That power supply was probably dead
before it left the factory. Do yourself a favor and buy a good one to
replace it, such as a seasonic or enermax brand.

On a side note, you should be glad it never powered on. A cheap power
supply like that is likely to kill all your other components. -Dave

its not cheap hiper is good it cost 50 pounds lol i just ordered a new 480w
antec psu

 

[JAD]

just completed piecing together system...

ASUS M2N-E Motherboard
AMD 3800 AM2
1 gig Corsair Value DDR2 RAM
PCI-E Asus GF7600GS 512 MB
Maxtor SATAII HDD
HIPER M-SERIES 530w PSU

onto the problemhere is a description of how i pieced together the system...

I put the processor into its socket, put the heatsink cooler on, placed the
ram into its slots,

screwed the PSU into the case
screwed the mainboard into the case

put the hard drive and cd drives into the case and plugged a power cable
into them from the PSU,

put the motherboard into the case and screwed it down,

there is the problem....two MB's in the same case ...;^)

put wireless network card into case and PCI-E graphics card into case

(apparantly the asus geforce 7600 GS silenced card doesnt require a power
cable so i didnt put one in, not that there was a slot for one)

hooked up the SATA cable to the hdd and the IDE cable to the DVD ROM and the
DVD RW.

Plugged the power supply 20 pin cable into the motherboard and the extension
4 pin cable next to the 20 pin cable, I also pligged in the 4 pin P4
connector where it said to plug it in the motherboard manual.


I then cabled up the header as described in the manual, the power LED and
the Power Switch etc.

I then took the power cable plugged it into a plug socket at the wall and
into the power supply, i flicked the switch on the wall to on, and then
flicked the switch on the power supply from 0 to 1 to indicate on

I had already plugged monitor keyboard mouse etc into a monitor,


****PROBLEM STARTS HERE****

pressed the switch on the front of the case and nothing happened.so I switch
the 1 to 0 on back of PSU (i heard a little twing noise as if something was
powering down when i did this)

I then switched off the wall plug

Me being me i figured maybe i should check the header for the power switch
and power led and speaker etc, so i re did that, and i also took out the
20-pin and 4-pin (24 pin) connector from the power supply to the motherboard
and tried to re position it in another way, it would not fit so i plugged it
back in.

I switched all the relevant switches back on only this i decided to check,
usually when u have power going to a motherboard tere is an LED on the board
that indicates this, even if the computer is not turned on, i found this
LED, now this LED was not green red or anything it was just dead....????

i tried pressing the power switch again on the front of case several times,
and the reset switch but i knew nothing was going to happen, I just spent
the best part of a day demolishing my old system and putting all this stuff
into the case.

Can anyone please help me or tell me where the problem might lie so i know
what to RMA?

one thing i should mention is that the power cable going into the PSU from
the socket on the wall, when i unplug it and then plug it back in there is a
slight "click" its only faint just a small slight "click" only when i plug
it back in, could this be relevant?

also for the record i used an anti static wrist band, the first time i ever
have done so when building and i get problems, i never used one in the past
and everything went smooth.

any help as to how this can perhaps be fixed or what i should RMA or check
would be helpful, thanks.

strip it down to the bootable minimums and try to post

 

[Israel Richner]

Try unpluging all IDE, Sata, floppy and any other removable storage
drives from the motherboard, and take out all cards except the video
card. Unless you have onboard video, then use that.

Once all ide drives and unnecessary cards are unpluged try to power up
the system. If this doesn't work, reseat the processor, reseat the ram
chips, reset bio to default settings via bios jumper.

You can even try powering it up without the video card and see if you
get system beeps.

If you still get nothing, it's probally the Power Supply or
Motherboard.

Does the power supply fan turn on? If not, I'd RMA that first or both

Happens to all of us. Seems like everytime I buy a new mobo, the first
one comes DOA.

Izzy

 

[Christo]

Try unpluging all IDE, Sata, floppy and any other removable storage
drives from the motherboard, and take out all cards except the video
card. Unless you have onboard video, then use that.

Once all ide drives and unnecessary cards are unpluged try to power up
the system. If this doesn't work, reseat the processor, reseat the ram
chips, reset bio to default settings via bios jumper.

You can even try powering it up without the video card and see if you
get system beeps.

If you still get nothing, it's probally the Power Supply or
Motherboard.

Does the power supply fan turn on? If not, I'd RMA that first or both

Happens to all of us. Seems like everytime I buy a new mobo, the first
one comes DOA.

Izzy

yeah nothing at all happens if the processor wasnt seated properly or there
was a ram error or something then surely the system would still POST i would
just get errors from the BIOS

sadly i think its going to be the motherboard the more i think about it and
if it is then im going to be very angry lol

ah well, fingers crossed for tomorrow eh?