Hi I built a new computer yesterday and all was good updated the BIOS and made a floppy for the Raid and installed windows all was working great. I then further went on and installed a load of drivers and installed my new sound card. I did also have a go at changing the auto overclocking settings in ai booster. Now it wont even boot, it dont turn my screen on automatically when you turn the rig on and when you go to turn it off the rig off wont turn off either unless you use the swich on the power supply at the back. Please help what do you think I have done and how can I fix it? I have now removed the sound card still no diffrent I have dissconected the HDDs and still no good. I have taken the graphics card out and reseated it still no good. I am thinking the PSU carnt see why it is new and a gooden but with it not turning off when pushing the power button just gives me the feeling it is the PSU. Thing is I dont have any spare parts to even check. Hope someone can give me some advise. Thanx John Asus P5WD2-E Premium Intel 975X Intel Pentium 4 950 Dual Core OCZ 2GB PC5300 Dual Channel Gold GX XTC Series EL-DDR2 3D connect ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB x2 Western Digital Raptor 74GB FSP Sparkle FX600-GLN Epsilon 600W ATX2.0 PSU Thermaltake VB1000BWS Soprano Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler Creative sound blaster X-Fi sound card
Have you tried clearing your BIOS yet? There should be a reference in the motherboards manual if you are not sure how to do it.
Yeah I have just tryed removing the CMOS battery and changed the jumper setting for 10 mins and put the jumper setting back and put the battery back and still nothing. Screen does not come on when started and power wont turn off except the swich on the PSU.
Check the power cord and outlet. Check the power supply's connector to the motherboard. Disconnect and reconnect to be sure its firmly connected Check the power switch on the PC's case and make sure it's properly connected to the motherboard. Try shorting the jumper pins that the switch uses to power on the PC. If that works, the switch is bad. Make sure the motherboard surface is not making contact with the metal case (except at its mounting points). Take the motherboard and power supply out of the case and place them on a non-conductive surface (wooden table, etc.). If it boots, something was probably shorting out in the case. And if your PC powers on but gives you a blank screen (won't boot), here are some tips: Make sure all of the cards, the CPU, and the RAM, are properly seated. Remove them and reinsert them to be sure Remove all non-essential components and disconnect non-essential cables (including IDE, floppy, etc.). All you should need to reach the initial boot screen (memory count, etc.) are: the motherboard, CPU, RAM, power supply, and graphics card. If it boots, start adding components one at a time, and boot up each time. When the system won't boot, you've found your faulty (or incorrectly installed or incompatible) component.
