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So I put my new system together today, following the manuals for the motherboard and the CPU in the installation. I got everything installed, but the system won't POST. The power comes on, the fans start (and the variable speed control works), all the "Phase" lights illuminate initially but then go out after 20 seconds or so...but I get nothing on the screen. It will run until I turn it off, and the reset button does cause it to reset; and then actually reset again after about 15-20 seconds for some reason. But then it restarts and continues to run, without resetting again. I checked and verified the correct wiring (and unplugged the harnesses and plugged them in again) three times--and I even removed the 6850 video card and tried using the on-board HDMI port. The thing doesn't even give me a beep or fire up the BIOS. I get nothing on the screen whatsoever. I've tried all the RAM sticks individually, in the slots recommended in the manual, but it doesn't make any difference. The monitor works on my other machine, so it's not that.
Reasoning that I must have screwed something up, I removed the CPU cooler (Hyper212 Evo), and unseated the CPU. I had applied a bit too much heat sink compound, as it had just run off the edge of the CPU's surface--but it didn't get anywhere near the edge of the chip, or the socket itself. But I cleaned it all off, and applied less on the next install. The CPU went into the socket just fine as well. But even after all of that, nothing changes--fans still work, phase lights illuminate and then go out, and the machine continues to run and run and run...but nothing else happens. The HDD spins up, and the optical drives both have power.
So other than two sticks of RAM and some SATA drives, I've got nothing else installed--and I still can't get it to POST. I've heard a couple stories about bad Gigabyte boards, but I've never experienced this myself...so could this be I've got going on? I've been Googling around a bit, but haven't yet found anything definite.
Anyone have any ideas?
TB
Reasoning that I must have screwed something up, I removed the CPU cooler (Hyper212 Evo), and unseated the CPU. I had applied a bit too much heat sink compound, as it had just run off the edge of the CPU's surface--but it didn't get anywhere near the edge of the chip, or the socket itself. But I cleaned it all off, and applied less on the next install. The CPU went into the socket just fine as well. But even after all of that, nothing changes--fans still work, phase lights illuminate and then go out, and the machine continues to run and run and run...but nothing else happens. The HDD spins up, and the optical drives both have power.
So other than two sticks of RAM and some SATA drives, I've got nothing else installed--and I still can't get it to POST. I've heard a couple stories about bad Gigabyte boards, but I've never experienced this myself...so could this be I've got going on? I've been Googling around a bit, but haven't yet found anything definite.
Anyone have any ideas?
TB