Self built PC won't boot, help me please

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by hounddog, Dec 22, 2006.

  1. dfense

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    Solved mine. Two things went wrong. First was a noob error. I inserted the P4 4pins cable instead of the other 4pin cable (with two black wires) in the mobo.
    That solved made the cpu fan spin correctly with all psu cables attached.
    Second, I removed the mobo from case and it worked, seemed that a screw or something was shortwiring something when inserted in case. Now I reinserted the mobo in the case (only used 3 screws instead of 9, don't know if this is a problem ?) and everything seems to work.
     
  2. hounddog

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    what do you mean by the wrong one? one of my boards has a 24pin slot and a 4 pin so i plugged the whole 24pins in and i put the 4pin (two black and 2 yellow) into the p4 slot
    my other board has 20pin and a 4 pin so i used an adapter on my 24 pin to make it 20 and again plugged the 4 pin into the p4 slot

    if i do not plug the 4pin p4 cable in then the fans spin but nothing happens and if i do then i get nothing at all but the hard drive led stays on
     
  3. dfense

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    Sorry, I am newbie, It seems that I attached the extra 4pin cable (for 24pins mobos) instead of the P4 4pins (with 2 blackwires). But sympons are the same, without the4pin cable the fan works, with the wrong 4pin cable the fan stops.
     
  4. hounddog

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    oh i see what you mean yeah, well mine doesnt let me do that anyway as there keyed differently
     
  5. hounddog

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    ooooooo, second processor installed and still same bloody problem so i think ive either got two faulty boards, two faulty processors, two faulty memory sticks or two faulty psu's lol i think i'm going crazy
     
  6. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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    Try only one of the memory sticks, and a different video card.
     
  7. hounddog

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    i've tried every possible combination of video cards and memory and still nothing works
    i'm thinking maybe the asrock board is broken and this is the only board i have that takes ddr and ddr2 memory that i can swap over and the other board is ddr2 only and i only have one stick of ddr2 memory for it and maybe that is broke aswell?
     

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