The comp building experience from Hell.

[Brokenangel]

Well, I have been building a gaming rig, but I'll spare you the messy details, suffice to say I've been working on it for a year.


In anycase, I'll get to the details.


The PC will not boot. Everything powers up but there no video and no power up test beep from the mobo.

This is the PC (all new parts):

Chieftek Dragon Case

Ultra 500W power supply

Intel D925XCV motherboard

Intel 530 CPU

(2)x 512MB DDR2 533 PC4200

ATI X600 GT PCIx graphics card

20 200 GB Western Digital SATA drive

Plex Plextorr 712 DVD/CD drive

(3) Ultra case fans

Ultra drive cooling fan



Everything has been removed reinstalled, re-seated....Monitor has been tested and works fine on other machines.


I have stripped it down to just case, pwr supply, mobo, mem and graphics card. No luck.


I have had both the CPU and motherboard replaced by Intel, have swapped out pwr supply with new 400W Ultra, swapped out graphics card with new 6600gt PCIx.


Everything has been re-installed, reseated many times with a variety of cables.


Running out of things to try! Can somebody help me?

[eddds40]

Where it wont even beep with the changes you have made I would suspect the memory or memory slot on card or keyboard connection

[Brokenangel]

Wait...the keyboard needs to be plugged in?

[eddds40]

yup

[eddds40]

Pc's will boot with no mouse normally but most of them I have worked on need a keyboard attached to boot. You should see the 3 lights blink
(num/capabove the num key) as the pc post's at about same time as you hear the beep

[photolady]

This is weird.....because I was rebuilding a computer for someone. Read that upgrading. And I kept getting beeps and did the same thing, removed, rearranged, replaced parts til I was about to throw that computer out the window. Then a thought hit me, try another keyboard. The keyboard was bad on this build. I replaced it with a brand new one. No more problems.
It's amazing what you come across when building....eh?

[eddds40]

Have seen it where stuck keys would keep them from booting

[SuperSparks]

Did you remember to plug in the 4-pin P4 connector? Otherwise you get exactly those symptoms (did it myself the other day ).

[Nix]

20 200 GB Western Digital SATA drive

Hopefully that's some sort of typo, otherwise 20 HDD will be sucking the power out of your PSU

[lgbpop]

Another thing to check from the Oddballs Dept.--try a different CMOS battery. No telling how long the mobo sat in inventory before you got it, or whether the battery was a pull from a return--used to replace a "borrowed" new one in a pinch.