asrock 939 dual vsta help anyone?

[D_Money5042000]

So i bought this mobo with a AMD athlon 64 x2 3800 and after putting everything together my pc did not power up. I've narrowed it down to 2 possible problems i did the system panel header wrong, and i can't find the cord that goes into the chassis fan connector.

 

[Archangel]

well.. and what exacly are you asking? if you narrowed it downt to that... check it out

ofcourse there is a possibillity of your motherboard beeing DOA

 

[D_Money5042000]

where is the chassis fan cable?

 

[Archangel]

Do you have a case fan in your case? because it can be either a 3 pin connector on the mainboard, or a 4 pin molex (like in your optical drives)
however... ive never seen a casefan preventing something from booting.

If you try to put the pc on... what exacly happens?

 

[D_Money5042000]

nothing at all happens

 

[D_Money5042000]

so it's not the system panel

 

[StrangleHold]

Do you have the power switch pluged into the right pins on the board?

 

[WeatherMan]

If all your front panel wires are in there right positions.

If another thing you haven't checked is the PSU, totally disconnect it from the board, take it out, and get a paper clip, ground the green and any black wire on the 24pin connector, then press the on/off switch on your psu and see if it starts up/ fan spins.

 

[D_Money5042000]

the psu is fine because i took it out and put it in another computer to test and it worked fine.

 

[D_Money5042000]

Do you have the power switch pluged into the right pins on the board?

yes

 

[D_Money5042000]

so do i have another dead mobo?

 

[D_Money5042000]

so it powers on now but i see nothing on my screen.

 

[D_Money5042000]

any ideas what that might be?

 

[D_Money5042000]

bump

 

[D_Money5042000]

the fans come on, the lights light up, there's no sound, the dvd drives open and close

 

[D_Money5042000]

anybody

 

[StrangleHold]

What kind of video card are you using

 

[D_Money5042000]

AGP geforce fx5500 256mb

 

[StrangleHold]

Doesnt that board have PCIe and AGP

 

[D_Money5042000]

yeah it does.
it has 1 agp slot
1 pci-e 1x
and 1 pci-e 16x