Just built my first computer, and it wont turn on?

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alexjb

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when I put the cpu in it felt hard to push the metal bar down, and it made a crunch noise, maybe thats the prob?
 
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alexjb

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I have reseated the CPU and made sure that it lines up with the arrow, but it still doing the same thing, I notice that when it starts up the Intel fan above the CPU comes on and about a second after spinning the computer shuts down and tries rebooting again and again etc
 
wolfeking

wolfeking

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That is your issue most likely. I have never herd any noise when installing the CPU, nor being difficult to push down.
 
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alexjb

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wolfeking said:
That is your issue most likely. I have never herd any noise when installing the CPU, nor being difficult to push down.
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the cpu went in fine and simple, but when I put the cover and pulled down the metal leaver it made a noise and was very hard to do push down, but it said on a video tutorial that I was watching that it's very normal:confused:
 
wolfeking

wolfeking

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It may be normal, but I have never experienced it, and I have installed CPUs in LGA1155 boards at least a dozen times or more.
 
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alexjb

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it's stayed on and sounds good now thanks! :) the only problem I have now is that my monitor is receiving no signal from the computer via hdmi?
 
wolfeking

wolfeking

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did you plug the 2 6 pin adapters into the graphics card and the power supply? Are they the right way round?

Also, are you putting the cable on the graphics card or the motherboard headers?
 
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alexjb

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wolfeking said:
did you plug the 2 6 pin adapters into the graphics card and the power supply? Are they the right way round?

Also, are you putting the cable on the graphics card or the motherboard headers?
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I think I must have done it wrong, I placed the graphics card into the motherboard and then it clips in (a blue bracket) and the only wires I have attached to the graphics card is a red lead coming from the power supply with 6 pins and another red lead coming from the power supply with 6 pins and 2 dangling down, I think this is correct? the graphics card did come with some other leads but I am not sure if they are needed for this? thank you :)
 
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alexjb

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yay I got it working thanks! :)

the monitor says EFI Shell version 2.1 [4.653]
Current running mode 1.1.2
map: Cannot find required map name.

Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue.
Shell> _

What shall I do now please? Insert windows? the problem I got is that my DVD-RW will not open up, the only cable I have connected to the DVD-RW is the Sata cable, is this incorrect? thank you for all your help :)
 
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spirit

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Can you show us a pic of the inside of your machine? I've read through the thread and I've seen you had a number of issues regarding RAM and CPUs and stuff. I just want to make sure everything is OK before you do anything else.
 
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alexjb

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spirit said:
Can you show us a pic of the inside of your machine? I've read through the thread and I've seen you had a number of issues regarding RAM and CPUs and stuff. I just want to make sure everything is OK before you do anything else.
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sure thanks :) it's installing windows at the moment, i think it's okay I'll grab the camera now :)
 
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