Can't find the issue, tried everything I know of

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rossfinn

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Hey there,
I've built a new pc and I'm having some trouble with the first boot. I get a single beep from the motherboard which to my knowledge means it's passed the POST? Following this the monitor turns on briefly and this is in the display:

http://postimage.org/image/i7ilcsi8b/

It stays on for a few seconds then turns off, there's also no keyboard or mouse recognition.

I've reseated and rewired everything, I've taken the CMOS battery out for a couple of minutes. All of the fans are working including the ones in the gpu and psu. All of the parts are new bar the optical drive, GPU and a Seriel ATA Western digital HDD, I also have an 60GB SSD that I'm probably gonna use instead of the HDD to install the OS to. Here's a small gallery of images of the build and the wiring maybe I'm missing something?


http://postimage.org/gallery/148pvv7a/724da9ad/


The build itself is as follows:
Processor: Intel i5 3570
Motherboard: Gigabyte z68AP-D3
RAM: 8GB corsair vengeance
HDD: 320GB Western Digital serial ATA OR SSD: OCZ 60GB agility 3
PSU: Pulse Power PPS-600BR 600w 120mm fan.
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GT430 1GB. (about a year old now)

I'd appreciate the help if someone could diagnose what's wrong here, I've been pulling my hair out for the past 2 days over this.
 
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Did you use standoffs between the motherboard and case? Try this.

Remove motherboard from case and build the system outside on a piece of cardboard and see if the system boots up.

However, try removing the hard drive first to see if the system continues to boot. I've seen bad hard drives cause this issue.
 
Since you can see the bios, and not sticking it...you are fine. Looks like you don't have a OS to boot up...try using a live cd. Puppy linux is recommended.
puppy linux.org
Download the newest iso, burn it to a cd using another computer, and put it into your PC. Not enough time? Press f12 and it comes to a boot menu...put your cd in. Next select your cd rom slot. You should see puppy booting up or something crazy is going on.
 
AngJinhang said:
Since you can see the bios, and not sticking it...you are fine. Looks like you don't have a OS to boot up...try using a live cd. Puppy linux is recommended.
puppy linux.org
Download the newest iso, burn it to a cd using another computer, and put it into your PC. Not enough time? Press f12 and it comes to a boot menu...put your cd in. Next select your cd rom slot. You should see puppy booting up or something crazy is going on.
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No he is not fine. Even with no OS installed he would get a error. With it freezing at the splash screen he has a hardware issue somewhere.
 
Yeah standoffs were installed. Took everything out and built it on some cardboard, same result, except now when it turns on and goes the the splash it resets except these resets don't go to the splash anymore, it just keeps resetting as soon as it turns on. Any ideas?
 
When you get that splash screen did you hit del to go to BIOS?

See if it'll do that and select safe default and save it.
 
There's no functionality from the keyboard at all, can't do anything. Splash just resets over and over. Most threads with similar issue descriptions to mine all point to the ivy bridge/sandy bridge issue. How do i check my bios version?
 
When you see the splash screen hit the del key and you should enter the bios. You should see what revision is installed on the main screen.
 
This is gonna sound crazy but can you close the clips on the empty memory slots?

I once fixed a computer problem my friend had and I noticed the clips in open position so I closed them and the computer booted and ran.

Like I said, crazy but possible.
 
Twiki said:
This is gonna sound crazy but can you close the clips on the empty memory slots?

I once fixed a computer problem my friend had and I noticed the clips in open position so I closed them and the computer booted and ran.

Like I said, crazy but possible.
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No, this is nonsense. The clips have no electrical inputs whatsoever, so whatever fixed your issue it wasn't that. Can't possibly be.

To the OP, try using a PS2 keyboard adaptor rather than USB, remove all USB and try entering the BIOS again.
 
It's not nonsense sir but not all mobos are like that. Just a possibility so it can't hurt to do it.
 
Look Twiki, no mobo in the history of mobos has any electrical connection to the physical plastic memory clips. Its just simply not possible, so yes, thank you for your thoughts, but its equivalent to saying rub the pc case and say nice things to it, it may work too.
 
bigfellla said:
Look Twiki, no mobo in the history of mobos has any electrical connection to the physical plastic memory clips. Its just simply not possible, so yes, thank you for your thoughts, but its equivalent to saying rub the pc case and say nice things to it, it may work too.
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Well usually, the clips holds the RAM in place if I'm correct. So closing the clip might have helped to seat the RAM in place which most likely fixed the issue.

This is my view on it however and I'm by no means an expert so correct me if I'm wrong

Edit: Ignore this, I misread haha.
 
I don't know why you don't believe me but this was long ago back in the socket 7 days. My friend worked on the computer all day without any luck and all I did was close up the empty slots. The computer worked then. I touched nothing else.

I told y'all it was crazy but I'm not. :)
 
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