So after about a year of not having a desktop for gaming I finally invested in putting a new one together. It consists of: Asus P8Z68-V Pro Motherboard Intel 2600k i7 cpu 16gb (4x4gb) 1600 Corsair Vengeance Ram Psaz cp 600 power supply (Cyberpower generic brand I had laying around) 260gtx Nvidia graphics card It's the second computer I've built and I'm pretty damn sure I have it put together correctly. When I turn it on, the fans, including cpu and graphics card fans, and the case and mobo LEDs turn on for about 10-15 seconds and then it reboots. After it reboots it stays on until I turn it off manually but I get no display on the monitor. I can't even get to post or bios. I'm quite confused. Anyone have any ideas?
take all but one stick of RAM out, see if it boots then Did you plug in both power connectors to the graphics card? Your sure all fans are plugged in to the proper fan headers? The main one that will sometimes cause a computer not to boot is if you have no CPU fan plugged into the CPU fan header Unplug the hard drives and DVD drive and see if it comes on. Try a better PSU. An old and generic brand 600w would barely cut it with a system like that. You probably wont be able to overclock at all At boot up Id imagine the system is eating up 400-450w of power, and the PSU can probably only put out continuously somewhere between 450-500w if you are lucky
I had the same problem with my computer I built recently. While it doesn't mean the solution is the same, I hadn't plugged both power cables into each video card.
I had a booting issue with mine (over a year ago when i built it), the CPU fan was not plugged in correctly. It may be worth it to get a 2nd pair of eyes on your build just to make sure its all together properly. I had a friend look at mine and he noticed the CPU plug was not plugged in properly within the first 5 seconds of looking at it and it was booting with 30 seconds. Other than that just reseat everything (video cards, plugs etc) and it should boot.
I suppose the reason I'm building the new computer is kind of important because I shorted something in the previous one I had. After I couldn't get it to work the other day I decided to get a new case and power supply to use, so I now have all brand new parts (Apart from the disk drive). I appreciate all the ideas! I will try taking all but one ram stick out and unplugging the disk drive/HDD. Also, I noticed I have two plugs for a fan (PWR_FAN1 and PWR_FAN2). My new case only needs 1 of them so I plugged it into the farther port because it was PWR_FAN1. Doubt switching it will help but I will try it. It's still doing the same thing with the new power supply and case so I'm thinking that maybe the default on the motherboard is set to run from the HDD (currently blank), so hopefully unplugging it will solve the problem. I'll give it a shot.
Well I'm a dumbass. I took out all but 1 ram stick and it still wasn't booting up. I pulled out my old motherboard out which still had 800hz ddr2 ram to test it and realized it wasn't the same size. As I was looking at the board however I realized I forgot to plug in the 12v power to the board this time. Setting up the bios now. :] Thanks again everyone for the input, can't wait to put it to use.
Good to see that it's working. It's usually some silly thing like that keeping it from booting on a new build. Happy gaming!
Good to see its working. and dont worry, we have all done some stupid stuff just like that during the course of our builds. If you need help with overclocking on that processor, check out the thread here in the tech section. Another person was asking about how to overclock that same processor.
Heh. Couldve been worse. When mine was built , shoved the processor in with force. Broke that sucker. ><
If I broke a 300$ processor without ever using it I would probably cry. I have one more question. Since the old computer had a 500gb hard drive but I got a 6gb/s for the new setup, I'm going to be putting linux on the old and windows 7 on the new. I'm assuming the easiest way to do this would be to only connect 1 drive at a time to load the OS's and then just set the bios to boot from the one I use more often, and just interrupt post when I want to use linux? Figured I might as well ask since there's probably someone much more experienced than I.
That's one method, depending on what you prefer. My desktop has two HDD as well, but I have the mbr for both on the same HDD, so that if I don't interrupt the boot it automatically boots the default option, Win7. But this also allows me the option to boot on the other HDD by simply pressing 2 keys, it's a quicker when you want to change, but. . . There are two downsides, 1. it will make booting to the default take a few seconds longer, and 2. If the default HDD fails I will have to jump through some hoops to get the second to boot. Which I have prior experience solving anyways so I don't worry about it. That method is only better if you boot to your second drive constantly like I do. Otherwise, the method you chose is the safer of the two.
I'm a little confused how that's set up. Both OS's are on the same drive but the secondary one uses the second HDD as its storage device? I just figured it would be easier to separate them than partition one drive and use the other strictly for storage, but I could be totally wrong.