New PC won't boot

[INTELCRAZY]

My new PC won't boot, the one in the sig. Just nothing comes up on the monitor. Earlier, it was shutting down and it took forever, so I just manually shut it down with the power button. I hit the power button and the hard drive seems to be running and the light blinks. The screen is getting no signal....

Edit: I swapped for a VGA monitor with no effect, I think it's this POS ATI Gfx card... I have no way of checking with a different gfx card The hard drive is running, I had plans to order an Ultra tonight. But, with this crap happening no. It ran great this morning.... Don't know what coulda happened.

Thanks a million

 

[PC eye]

Recheck all of your connections and even try replugging the 12v cpu feed as a long shot there. When swapping supplies recently a loose contact in the plug stalled the whole system. At first I wondered about a bad supply. A flaky contact will cause a number of problems. You can try reseating the card as well. Your sig shows an 8800 not an ATI model? unless that is still in the works.

 

[INTELCRAZY]

Recheck all of your connections and even try replugging the 12v cpu feed as a long shot there. When swapping supplies recently a loose contact in the plug stalled the whole system. At first I wondered about a bad supply. A flaky contact will cause a number of problems. You can try reseating the card as well. Your sig shows an 8800 not an ATI model? unless that is still in the works.

It's in the works, supposed to been ordered tonight.... I dunno with how this is going


Now the computer works, I think I found the problem... ATI's artwork was shorting two of the circuits, I suspected that. That stupid thing is just rubbish and needs not be put on. I am just gonna leave the system on for a while, I did a HJT and everything looks normal, CPU is at 23*C, Speedstep is working, HDD seems responsive, and DVD drives work. I am ordering the new gfx card tonight, TO GET RID OF THIS ATI CRAP!!!


Thanks PC eye

 

[PC eye]

I would first try reseating the card and memory as well as carefully looking over all power connections if you haven't heard any audio alarm pointing at a hardware fault. Besides the card a fault with a new board is something to consider too. Yet a bad card without an alarm is usually one that has been working all along and suddenly quits. Did you change bios settings since first starting up the new build? You might have to clear the cmos by popping the battery to go back to factory defaults if the PCI/PCI-E setting is wrong somehow. A weak battery or bad bios programming would see that.

 

[K3rupt]

It's in the works, supposed to been ordered tonight.... I dunno with how this is going


Now the computer works, I think I found the problem... ATI's artwork was shorting two of the circuits, I suspected that. That stupid thing is just rubbish and needs not be put on. I am just gonna leave the system on for a while, I did a HJT and everything looks normal, CPU is at 23*C, Speedstep is working, HDD seems responsive, and DVD drives work. I am ordering the new gfx card tonight, TO GET RID OF THIS ATI CRAP!!!


Thanks PC eye

He Got It.

 

[PC eye]

He Got It.

He edited his reply after my response. Take a look at the time stamp to see that.

At least you have the problem isolated. That was rather quick. You should try rmaing the card for refund or exchange since a bad one got out. Why is it I never seem to have any problems with either ATI or NVidia cards on any build I work with? hhhmmm... Other then having a need to reinstall or update drivers I simply throw any card in and it works!

 

[INTELCRAZY]

He edited his reply after my response. Take a look at the time stamp to see that.

At least you have the problem isolated. That was rather quick. You should try rmaing the card for refund or exchange since a bad one got out. Why is it I never seem to have any problems with either ATI or NVidia cards on any build I work with? hhhmmm... Other then having a need to reinstall or update drivers I simply throw any card in and it works!

I am getting rid of this card anyway in exchange for an Ultra. Which I might order tonight... Funny thing, I think it's the gfx card, BUT the keyboard never did light up until I reset the power on the PSU. Sounds like an HDD problem there, too. I don't have the CPU at 3.74Ghz anymore, I just did that for one night to get a good CPUMark score. If the gfx card was working could the HDD make the POST screen not display?


Thanks

 

[PC eye]

A bad drive means no OS to load!

Don't feel bad about the card either way. When ordering a new Radeon model for a new build here first it was there then out of stock and then ordered while in stock. This is an MSI model over the Asus card first looked at with an 800mhz core and 1400mhz memory clock on the GDDR3 model. Having just received that card newegg suddenly comes out with a better MSI for $30- more with an 850mhz core and 2300mhz memory clock! I had a few words! But to order that card would mean substituting value memory for the Kingston Hyper X ordered.

The keyboard not lighting up and resetting the supply could easily point at that rather then the drive if that is not providing enough power at startup. A shaky supply will cause a number of problems since the typically seen largest demand for power is at post time when all hardwares are quick tested and the OS is loaded. To recycle a supply shut eveything down, turn off the breaker switch, and unplug the ac cord. With that unplugged turn the breaker switch on the supply back on and push the power button like you would normally to start the system.

This will discharge the caps inside the supply itself. Once done turn the breaker off and replug the ac cord. See if that gets you up and running normailly. If not one of two things namely supply and drive are possible suspects if the card is found good.

 

[INTELCRAZY]

A bad drive means no OS to load!

Don't feel bad about the card either way. When ordering a new Radeon model for a new build here first it was there then out of stock and then ordered while in stock. This is an MSI model over the Asus card first looked at with an 800mhz core and 1400mhz memory clock on the GDDR3 model. Having just received that card newegg suddenly comes out with a better MSI for $30- more with an 850mhz core and 2300mhz memory clock! I had a few words! But to order that card would mean substituting value memory for the Kingston Hyper X ordered.

The keyboard not lighting up and resetting the supply could easily point at that rather then the drive if that is not providing enough power at startup. A shaky supply will cause a number of problems since the typically seen largest demand for power is at post time when all hardwares are quick tested and the OS is loaded. To recycle a supply shut eveything down, turn off the breaker switch, and unplug the ac cord. With that unplugged turn the breaker switch on the supply back on and push the power button like you would normally to start the system.

This will discharge the caps inside the supply itself. Once done turn the breaker off and replug the ac cord. See if that gets you up and running normailly. If not one of two things namely supply and drive are possible suspects if the card is found good.

Everything else was running at full tilt in the system. I don't understand why this PSU can get so much fame when the thing won't push a keyboard illumination. Sometimes when I put it on Sleep, it won't go completely off, so I just hit the reset button and the system comes back on, I wait for it to startup, I then put it on Sleep again, it actually goes to sleep.

Thanks

 

[PC eye]

What setting do you have for the bios there? You should have that in the user defined and simply be able to set the hibernation options in the Control Panel. Here I simply never bother with seeing the system go into standby or hibernation. On some things that would interfere with less active processes. I set everything to never for drives as well. But I am usually busy with something anyways when the system is running.