I'm having a problem w/ my mobo, but I'm not sure what it is...

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Nick.D

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The computer I'm trying to put together consists of a MSI 970 Gaming mobo, AMD FX 6300, and GeForce GTX 970.

I'm using an 850W psu, and 16GB RAM.

I'm thinking it's a problem with the motherboard, it's had issues before (this is probably my 9th time trying to get it work over the past few months), but I could be wrong.

My problem is that everything turns on, all the lights, all the fans, no error beeps, but the computer won't actually start.

I press the power button, the fans spin and lights come on, then... nothing. There's still a box saying 'no signal' floating around on my monitor. I double-checked the connection from the monitor to the video card, and it was correct. I figured that maybe the PCIE slot wasn't working, so I plugged it into a different one. Didn't help.

I noticed that it wasn't starting the boot process at all, because my keyboard lights up when it does, and it wasn't lighting up at all. There is power going to the usb ports the keyboard is plugged into, as I had a flash drive plugged into one and it lit up.

Anyone have an idea as to what's going on?
 
Darren

Darren

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Do you have a system speaker?

If so pull the RAM and boot it with no RAM and see if it beeps at you, it should.

Has it worked before with the same hardware?
 
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Nick.D

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Darren said:
Do you have a system speaker?

If so pull the RAM and boot it with no RAM and see if it beeps at you, it should.

Has it worked before with the same hardware?
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I don't actually have a speaker. I have headphones, if that'll work. I did pull the ram out to see if anything would change, but it didn't.
 
Darren

Darren

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Nick.D said:
I don't actually have a speaker. I have headphones, if that'll work. I did pull the ram out to see if anything would change, but it didn't.
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System speaker which is what usually beeps on boot or gives you beep codes.

Has this hardware worked before?
 
johnb35

johnb35

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Have you tried resetting cmos? Remove power from power supply, remove cmos battery from motherboard, press and hold power button on case for 10 seconds then wait 10 minutes. Then reinsert battery, reconnect power and try booting up. Also try disconnecting cd drives and hard drives to see if system posts. Did you build this system? Did you use the standoffs between motherboard and case? If its grounding out against case, it won't boot up.
 
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Nick.D

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I gave up awhile ago and put my other computer back together--There's basically no difference between my current cpu and the 6300, so I decided it wasn't worth the trouble.
 
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