Newly built PC no POST bleeps

tomsolomon

If you had read the OP's post correctly you would have seen that it was a new build and that the "lights were on and nobody was at home".....
A bit like you m8......;)
Which suggests something has not been connected properly, there is a faulty component or ESD damage.....

You started off by insulting the OP by calling him stupid, unless you were refering to IBM's low level programming language...

You go rambling on about some American slang term for a USB flash drive....

You then ask the OP to remove his CMOS battery which is just totally of the scale, and totally irrelevant....

If there is no "Power On Self Test" there will be no beeps, you can't get into the BIOS, you can't flash the BIOS, you can't check the BIOS to see if there are any problems, you can't do anything.....

Then you start ranting about how everybody is wrong apart from yourself, and then you lower yourself to calling people names and stamping your feet....

And to top it all, the OP is probably so dissolusioned with the whole affair that he has left the forum to go and find another one where there aren't so many idiots giving out bad information, and trashing posts because they can't get their own way......

Nice one, good on ya m8............

And yes if you are building a new PC and it will not boot, you remove all unnecessary component and leave yourself a barebones system, then you see if it boots, if it does not boot you have a problem, if it does boot you add each component one at a time untill it does not boot again, then you know what was causing the problem in the first place.... is that KISS enough for you????

Also I have seen many new PC builds that have had lights on but will not POST, and it turned out that the person had not put the front pannel connectors in the right place. Occasionally it's memory that causes the problem and uninstalling some of the Dual Inline Memory Modules, (Or DIMM to you) will cause the PC to kick into life, other times it was down to the thermal paste not being correctly applied to the CPU, do you want me to go on or should I write you a manual????

You should get your information straight and stay off the bottle dude before you come on here flaming and ranting again.......:beer:

P.S. Sorry Elggin, I hope you sort your PC out..........

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

In the morning I'll look at your history in this and other groups, everytime you hit the send key it's there in the ether, I'll lookie~see, come back tomsolomon waddaya think M8 ?

Oh and P.P.S. I would be carefull who you threaten, there's are quite a few people on here that could rip your IP address, and send some of that love right back at ya... If you know what I mean...

matthewhotdude

so did you use standoffs?

spakkker

I would suspect the psu first. Can you test it or use a known working psu?
Unplug all but 1 memory stick, cpu, graphics and case speaker - try
Some m/boards will post with a new cpu to allow a bios update and some won't , you may have to contact gigabyte or google for this answer.
Can you try all this with the m/board not fitted in case?
Hope this helps.

Gallstones

No beeps but system powering up usually means no CPU or CPU not compat with mboard.

tomsolomon

Let me make this real easy......

A quick visit to the manufacturers web site tells me that the CPU is compatible with Rev1 of the motherboard which rules out compatibility issues.......

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3320

If the PSU had failed there would be no LED's the optical drives would not light up and the chassis and CPU fan would not spin.......

This is basic stuff you learn when you go to college or anywhere they teach computer maintenance.........

Fortunately, (for us technicians that is,) they don't teach this stuff when you go to sixth form and learn about sociology. Which is unfortunate for proper technicians because we cant get jobs in the IT industry with industry recognised qualifications because all the jobs have been taken by A' level students who don't know what they are talking about......

Gallstones

Im going to say either a faulty CPU or mboard on this one.

tomsolomon

It's ok making a generalisation, but if this were a used machine and been running ok previously then that would be high up on the list of priorities for inspection...
The fact is that these are brand new components, and they are supposed to be working, and there is a set routine for checking these things...
Usually by testing everything first and making sure everything is put together properly in the first place....
If you want me to put my money on something being wrong, it would be "user error." I.E a bad configuration or incorrectly assembled component, second to that I would say it could most likely be a memory problem....

Gallstones

Yea mem COULD do it, just try a stick at a time.

Elggin

Thanks for all the suggestions. The PC was built wearing ESD strap and ESD precautions taken, have built a few PC's over last 5 years so quite techy savvy. Have tried running on minimal parts i.e just Mobo/CPU and PSU running and no bleeps, tried same with one stick of ram and again with other stick. Reseated CPU twice. I am coming to conclusion made by GALLSTONES its either PSU or Mobo but currently unable to swap out with good known ones as I have not got a spare.

Gallstones

might be best to take both CPU and mboard back and get an exchange.