Boot problems, No display or beeps whatsoever

MineIQ1701

MineIQ1701

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I recently tried to put my motherboard, processor, video card, etc. in a new case. I was wearing an Anti-static wrist wrap, doing it on a nonconductive surface, and taking every other precaution to make sure nothing went wrong. But now, when I try to boot it up, all of the fans spin and everything looks like it is working, except for I never get anything displayed on the monitor. At first glance this may seem like a very simple problem, however, it isn't for several reasons. 1) I don't get any beeps whatsoever, even when I take the RAM out and try to make it beep. 2) Everything I am using worked in my old case just yesterday, so I doubt it is a software problem. 3) The case wasn't grounding the mobo, I have it on cardboard, with nothing else plugged in but the board, processor, and ram, and it still doesn't work. 4) I have cleared the CMOS 3 times, each time leaving the battery out for 30+ minutes each time. 5) Unless I pull the plug, it doesn't turn off, it turns on just fine by jumping the pins, but it refuses to turn off the same way. 6) It isn't the monitor or power supply, I replaced both and it still diddnt work.I have scoured the internet looking for solutions and have tried just about everything, if you have any ideas, please share.
 
Hello my first post here :), when you did the change over to the new case, did you remove the CPU and RAM from the mainboard? I would take CPU and RAM out and put them back in, and see if you get post boot screens, also just use 1 RAM stick till you get it booting, if no boot swap to next ram stick, do this while you have it on the card board, is it the same power supply?
 
I did not take the CPU or RAM out when I moved it, it is also the same power supply. I tried your suggestions, unfortunately they did not work, still the same situation as before
 
I would double check a few things, you have checked the RAM and CPU already, is the 4 pin power lead connected? is the CPU fan connected to the CPU fan connector on board not system fan connector? after checking all of these things, if still no post boot or error beep codes, I'd say it has a MOBO problem or even possibly a PSU issue. Do you have any MOBO's or PSU around?
 
It's gotta be the Mobo, I just tried another PSU, double checked all the connections, no luck. I must have accidentally knocked off a capacitor or something while moving it. This annoys the crap out of me, If I'm truely out of options, and need a new Mobo, do you suggest sticking with my AMD Athlon II 645 (4 cores, 3.1 ghz) or get an Intel board. Im super hard pressed for money at this point, and don't want to jump into an Intel board unless It's for the best. I mostly use my system for light media/gaming (nothing too taxing, Skyrim, Minecraft, L4D, etc.) and have a decent Graphics card.
 
I'd say maybe you have knocked a cap off or something, if you good with a desolder station and iron it could be fixed but most get a replacement board.

Do you need help finding a new MOBO? or you want to do a complete upgrade? if cash is tight a replacement board might be good they start at $39.00 at newegg.
 
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if your pressed for money, just get a AM3 board and you will be fine.

Your not out of options though. Are you sure that you placed the standoffs between the motherboard and the case? If you didn't then its grounding against the case, which would give the symptoms your showing.

Since your using a no name HP board, I would still suggest you get a quality AM3 board.
 
It would be nice if I could get a replacement board for a small amount of cash, or Id even be willing to sell this board off to somebody who knows what they are doing and wants to gamble that they can fix it for a small amount of money in return. (Or pay them to fix it)
 
most do, but ive seen time and time again people on here that have them, but for whatever reason didnt install them in the case before the motherboard.
Heck, even in my CompTIA engineering class, there were 2 groups that fried the mobo by not installing the standoffs. And they knew better, it was on the unit 2 test after all.
 
Yep, they case came with them, I used those, and can you think of anything I can do to try and fix the board? I think the biggest clue here is that jumping the pins won't turn it off like it should, but it WILL turn it on.
 
wait, jumping the pins will turn it on? Does it function as it should when jumped? If so your board is good, its a switch issue. If not, then we can try to fix the board.
 
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