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Hey
I recently built my first hackintosh but have run into problems trying to get the thing to boot up. Every time I power up the fans start spinning on the CPU and my monitor starts getting a signal but after 3/5seconds it shorts out, then this repeats until I power off the PSU. As the it has dual BIOS I can see in between resets that it's switching between the 2, after switching to single BIOS it will constantly run with power but no display, monitor acts the same way, receives signal but seems to lose it before a picture appears.
Here's a list of things I've tried in terms of trouble shooting.
Searching on google and various forums I found that possibly the BIOS version is not compatible with my CPU, obviously without being able to get into the bios I have no idea what it shipped with. When I check Gigabytes website for compatibility it states F9 to work with I7 4790k, with the update being realised 19/03/2014, seeing as I bought the MB 3/4 weeks I would assume it comes pre-load with that.
Asking for any help someone might be able to give, I've read that if I purchase a cheap CPU I might be able to get into BIOS, update it, then reinstall my 4790K. If there was any chance of avoiding this I'd obviously prefer that.
Being my first ever computer build I'm not sure if I'm missing something very obvious, or if my naivety as lead me to build a collection of expensive parts that don't work together.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Specs -
I recently built my first hackintosh but have run into problems trying to get the thing to boot up. Every time I power up the fans start spinning on the CPU and my monitor starts getting a signal but after 3/5seconds it shorts out, then this repeats until I power off the PSU. As the it has dual BIOS I can see in between resets that it's switching between the 2, after switching to single BIOS it will constantly run with power but no display, monitor acts the same way, receives signal but seems to lose it before a picture appears.
Here's a list of things I've tried in terms of trouble shooting.
- Removed all but one stick of RAM, tested in each slot, then changed RAM and tried each slot again.
- Removed from case to see if any metal was shorting the MB.
- Removed H100i and replaced with stock cooler.
- Removed GPU.
- Reset CMOS.
- Tested wall sockets.
Searching on google and various forums I found that possibly the BIOS version is not compatible with my CPU, obviously without being able to get into the bios I have no idea what it shipped with. When I check Gigabytes website for compatibility it states F9 to work with I7 4790k, with the update being realised 19/03/2014, seeing as I bought the MB 3/4 weeks I would assume it comes pre-load with that.
Asking for any help someone might be able to give, I've read that if I purchase a cheap CPU I might be able to get into BIOS, update it, then reinstall my 4790K. If there was any chance of avoiding this I'd obviously prefer that.
Being my first ever computer build I'm not sure if I'm missing something very obvious, or if my naivety as lead me to build a collection of expensive parts that don't work together.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Specs -
- Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H
- Intel I7 4790K
- Curcial Ballistix Sport 2x4gb
- Corsair RM850
- Gigabyte GTX780
