Boot problem

[Nildey]

Hey guys,

When I boot my rig all the fans come on and the ram counts up but nothing else happens. No display no hard drive spinning etc. Any idea what the problem is before I start testing individual parts?

[Captain Slug]

What wattage PSU are you using and what processor type does this board use?

This kinda dilemna shows during one of three situations

a) weak power supply that isn't supplying enough juice to boot all of the attached devices
b) dead IDE controller (I HATE when that happens)
d) dead BIOS

If it's a new motherboard RMA it in a jiffy. Even if none of your cables were connected it would boot up with NONE under all of the connection types and would give the infamous 'operating system not found" message.

[ElGriton]

Check the switch on back of the psu. Make sure it's set to 110 and not 220.

[Captain Slug]

Originally posted by ElGriton
Check the switch on back of the psu. Make sure it's set to 110 and not 220.

Most of the time that equates to a multitude of dead parts and NO spinning fans.

[ElGriton]

When it happens to me (I have 3 kids) I get lights and drives.

[AMD'er]

Plus if you just installed the motherboard.. make sure your spacers and screws are connected correctly...I was having that problem...fans would spend, I could acutally hear the HD spin but no picture...thought it was the video but not...even switch MOBOS and stillt he same thing...

So I took everything out the case and noticed one of the screws was stuck in the spacer...reseet the screw and MAGIC it worked.

[Mr. Chambers]

yes, as AMD'er suggested, try setting the mobo on some cardboard, or plastic, or anything not conductive, and installing just the bare necessities, mobo, cpu, ram, hard drive, video. then turn her on, and see if that fixes the problem, if it does, something is making a bad ground to your case (possibly a loose screw like AMD'er suggested, or a piece of the case is actually shorting out the motherboard somewhere.

also slug could be on the money with the power supply. what model are you running?

[Nildey]

thanks for the advice...well I know for a fact that none of the solutions above help me since Ive tried all the simple stuff...but thanks anyway!!

[1-Man-Army]

is this a new computer or a old one??

[DreamingWolf]

The only time I have that problem is when I OC my CPU or vid card too high. If you get to the point of checking individual componants, I would start with these.

DWolf:cool:

[Nildey]

it's my older second rig...its not even OCed...I have no clue