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amped

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SO basically i just finished putting together my new computer that came today. I hook everything up and go to push the power button and it comes on for a spit second and turns of instanty and wont do anything after that even after i hit the power button

if i reset the power supply... after i hit the power button once it will turn on for a split second then turn off. and wont turn on again till its reset. other wise i cant get it to do anything else.... any thoughts?

amd athon x2

asus m8n

ocz 2x1gb pc3200

nvidia 7900gtx 512

wd 300gb sata
 
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Make sure everything is seated correctly... Be careful. All the power cords are connected etc.
 
also make sure that there isn't any stray metal touching the mobo, it sounds like a short circuting problem, also check your opitical drives. I remember when i messed up rewiring my case and killing my burner and floppy the similar situation happened to me.
 
Hmm

Yeah check that your motherboars is seated properly on stand-offs. Also make sure that some wire is not sticking out somewhere touching the case and so on. For troubleshooting, try to bootup without the optical drives and any unnecessary PCI devices and so on. It would be worth it to try and bootup without the HDD as well. That would eliminate other problems as well. Also seems to me that the PSU is utilising a protection system.

PS: I know that this may sound stupid but you do have it set for the right voltage at the back right? I mean 110V vs 220V or whatever that is where you live.

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It has that option from what I can see

JAN :D
 
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Ah not that dam switch!

I did the stupied thing of playing around with it!

I was young! fortunatly all it did was blow a fuse in my PSU.

What are the settings for? 240V is for where?
 
hm i noticed that my power suply had a ground wire that i had to screw to my case that i didnt touch maybe i can mess with that. Thanks for the sugestions im gonna go fidde with it now that i got a good nights rest.
 
ok my heatsink and fan wernt properly connected.

It starts up now but i get 1 long beeep and 3 short...whats this mean?
 
jancz3rt said:
Yeah check that your motherboars is seated properly on stand-offs. Also make sure that some wire is not sticking out somewhere touching the case and so on. For troubleshooting, try to bootup without the optical drives and any unnecessary PCI devices and so on. It would be worth it to try and bootup without the HDD as well. That would eliminate other problems as well. Also seems to me that the PSU is utilising a protection system.

PS: I know that this may sound stupid but you do have it set for the right voltage at the back right? I mean 110V vs 220V or whatever that is where you live.

TruePowerII_3.jpg


It has that option from what I can see

JAN :D
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what do you mean by stand offs?

i put my mobo in the trey and just screwed a single screw through the top of the mobo in each hole
 
amped said:
ok my heatsink and fan wernt properly connected.
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Outch, hopefully nothing was damaged.

amped said:
It starts up now but i get 1 long beeep and 3 short...whats this mean?
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Check you motherboard manual to see what that specific error code means, but I'm guessing videocard or memory, have you seated these properly? Take them out and reseat them properly.
 
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amped said:
what do you mean by stand offs?

i put my mobo in the trey and just screwed a single screw through the top of the mobo in each hole
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Standoffs are small "extenders" that have a screw on one end, and a screw hole on the other end. They are used so that the back of the motherboard doesn't touch the metal part of the case.
 
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