Bad board? (S3)

I just put a new system together with the following specs--

Gigabyte S3
E4300 Core 2 Duo
2x512MB Corsair 667
evga 7900gs
LG dvd-rw
250gb wd sata hdd

I get no display on my monitor when the system boots up. In fact, I get no BIOS beeps either. I've checked the speaker a couple times to verify its on the right way and still nothing. I also tried using an old 8MB Ati PCI video card to rule out a DOA video card. Nothing. The only other thing I think it could possibly be other than the board, is the power supply. It's a 380W unit that came with the case I got. The video card requires a minimum of a 400W ps unit. I figured the board would still post with the old 8MB vid card in there though, right? Any other ideas as to why I wouldn't get a display? Also to note, it takes a few seconds for the cpu fan and chassis fan to turn on. Kind of like everything starts up slowly.

Yeah, well I dont know how its working now, but it is. I just removed everything and added stuff one at a time to try and find the problem. Nothing ever showed up. I guess something wasn't seated properly... Oh well, its nice to fix your own problems

cradivonyk said:

Yeah, well I dont know how its working now, but it is. I just removed everything and added stuff one at a time to try and find the problem. Nothing ever showed up. I guess something wasn't seated properly... Oh well, its nice to fix your own problems

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Glad it wasn't the board - the S3 in on my list

Yeah, the board is nice. I think I narrowed it down to a bad reset switch on the panel of my case. If the reset switch is hooked up to the mobo, the computer will not turn on. I don't use the reset switch anyway so I just left it disconnected. Once it turned on though, the board detected everything automatically. Only issue so far is that it set my memory timings to 5-5-5-15 on a 3:5 divider instead of 4-4-4-12 on a 1:1. But I can manually change that in the bios.

cradivonyk said:

Yeah, the board is nice. I think I narrowed it down to a bad reset switch on the panel of my case. If the reset switch is hooked up to the mobo, the computer will not turn on. I don't use the reset switch anyway so I just left it disconnected. Once it turned on though, the board detected everything automatically. Only issue so far is that it set my memory timings to 5-5-5-15 on a 3:5 divider instead of 4-4-4-12 on a 1:1. But I can manually change that in the bios.

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The way I understand it, the memory is programmed that way so it will boot up guaranteed - had to plug in a switch backwards (reversed) to get it to work for me - don't remember if it was the power or reset