New build attempt 2 No bios no nothing

Hi, I am completely at my wits end. I bought a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 about 3 weeks ago with an AMD Athlon x2 5000 along with 2 gigs of ram by G-Skill, a new vid card and a new 500 watt power supply. When I put it all together I got NOTHING, NADA, ZIPPO. No bios. No nothing to the monitor whatsoever. Just a flashing green light on the monitor.

I tried switching monitors thinking that had gone bad. I tried an old pci video card i had laying around. Nothing. I tried taking one stick of ram out. I tried each stick in different slots. Nothing at all. Nothing ever changed.

I sent the mb and processor back to Newegg assuming one of them was bad. I got them back FINALLY yesterday and tried again today. Guess what. Nothing. Nothing at all. I am sooooo pissed. I even tried putting just the mb, processor, and video card on a piece of cardboard and still nothing at all.

Is Gigabyte just crap? I just dont know what to do now. There is hardly anything at all hooked up to the system to mess it up. Is there a next step besides trying to get a refund from Newegg?

Thanks for any advice.

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Is your PSU on?

Reply to Dopekitten

OK valid question. I should have mentioned I get power to all the fans so i assume my ps is sending juice. I also should mention I have no pc speaker so I cant hear any beeps if there are any.

Thanks

Reply to reptileszz

Ok, just making sure, i mean sometimes stupid things like that happen. Anyway. Your case should have a speaker, is it hooked up, (does it even have one?) I would suggest trying to get speakers. If it beeps, then you know that your motherboard at least gets powered up. If not, then DOA.

Could also be your monitor, but i highly doubt it. Check the connection at the back of the monitor, could be that.

Also, check for shortcircuits in your case (like you forgot to put on the motherboard risers, or a penny )

Reply to Dopekitten

Hi, I did swap out the monitor already last time. no go. I dont have a pc speaker. I built it this last time outside the case on cardboard with keyboard, mouse, vid card only hooked up. No go. I dont get it. TWO bad ones from Newegg? Does that happen?

Reply to reptileszz

Yes, but rarely. Does your CPU fan start?
Try hooking up some speakers (if you have them).

Reply to Dopekitten

Hi,thanks for the quick responses as I want to commit hari kari right about now. Yes on the cpu fan. I had regular speakers hooked up to the onboard sound but got no noise from that. I sorta thought that the beeps only came out of a pc speaker? This is a 5 year old case from and older home build that I did and I didnt bother with pc speaker at the time. BTW this is at least the 4th or 5th computer I have built and I have never seen this sort of problem.

Thanks again.

Reply to reptileszz

Also there is a huge rosewill heatsink/fan on it. Also thermal paste etc.

Thanks

Reply to reptileszz

Well, basicly i think it could be 1 of two things. Either your motherboard is DOA (just unlucky, gigabyte is generally a good brand), or something is wrong with your monitor, unlikely. If you have another mobo/monitor to test, that would help you figure out which one it is.

Reply to Dopekitten

I bet you anything you didn't plug in the 4/8 pin 12v ATX CPU connector.

Please confirm!

Reply to roadrunner197069

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I tried an old pci video card i had laying around. Nothing.

That proves it's not a video card power connector problem...

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Reply to Dopekitten

make sure everything has power. 20+4 pin to mobo, 4+4 pin to cpu. (2)6+2 pin to gpu, etc

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Reply to pcgamer12

Hi, there is no power connector on the video card. I was hoping that was it last time. I dug out an old pc speaker and guess what. No beeps at all on boot. What is 4+4 to cpu? What is (2)6+2 pin to gpu? Like I said its been 4-5 years since my first build. Are there things that have changed that I am just not getting?

Thanks

Reply to reptileszz

When you installed the motherboard did you make sure to put it on top of the brass supports that screw into the tray, or did you screw the motherboard directly to the case?

Reply to Ryun

on the brass supports

Reply to reptileszz

pcgamer12 wrote :

make sure everything has power. 20+4 pin to mobo, 4+4 pin to cpu. (2)6+2 pin to gpu, etc

I think when he is talking about the 4x4 pin to cpu, he emant those ones

http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php [...] agems5.jpg

If you only plugged the 24 mobo pins and not those 4 pins, everything will power up, but it wont post.

Reply to BigBurn

That is exactly whats happening and I did not plug into that input. I thought it was specific to the video for some reason. So I can just plug a 4 pin in there and it should work?

Reply to reptileszz

Yes

Reply to BigBurn

Yep, after you plug it in, provided everything else is plugged in correctly it should post.

Reply to Shadowthor

Thanks guys. It worked. I feel like a complete idiot now. That is the thing that changed since my last system build. I was convinced that that plug was to go from the video card to the mb. I based this stupid assumption on the fact that the directions for the vid card said "if your version of the video card has a power connector" or some such. Since it doesnt have a power connector I thought it was all set. Of course, upon looking at the mb directions now, it all looks so clear. I thank you for your patience!!!

Now if I could only figure out how to get all 250 gigs of space to show up with my xp home (original version) sigh...

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reptileszz wrote :

Thanks guys. It worked. I feel like a complete idiot now. That is the thing that changed since my last system build. I was convinced that that plug was to go from the video card to the mb. I based this stupid assumption on the fact that the directions for the vid card said "if your version of the video card has a power connector" or some such. Since it doesnt have a power connector I thought it was all set. Of course, upon looking at the mb directions now, it all looks so clear. I thank you for your patience!!!

Now if I could only figure out how to get all 250 gigs of space to show up with my xp home (original version) sigh...

Awesome glad you fixed it.

In regards to your last problem XP home SP0 -- that is before service pack 1 -- only partitions 137 GB of space on your HD drive. To allocate that space you either need to get a copy of XP SP1 from a friend or buy Partion Magic to reallocate that space in windows: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] on%2bmagic

After doing a quick search you could also try this: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013

The two aforementioned ways are usually have I went about fixing it especially since I have a friend who owns PartionMagic.

Reply to Ryun

I swear this is the last computer I am ever building. I am getting freaking nowhere. Stupid Maxblast software from Maxtor/Seagate says I dont have a Maxtor drive installed WHICH IT IS. How retarded is that. This has turned into a nightmare.

Can I put the drive in another computer and partition it that way into 2 so my old xp can see them? This sounds like it will work but frankly I am so tired of wasting my time trying things...

thanks a million. You guys are great.

Reply to reptileszz

OK, I threw in the towel and am settling for 137 out of 250gigs on this hd. It was free anyway. I dont know if the fact that it came out of a dell has anything to do with MaxBlast not recognizing that it is a Maxtor but I gave it too much time already. Thank you all for your help. I would not have gotten this far without you guys.

Take care,
Carole

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