- Joined
- May 21, 2007
- Location
- London, ON
Ok just got all the parts for my new rig:
- Q6600
- TRU heatsink
- Sythe 120mm fan
- 2 x 1gig Crucial Ballistix 1066mhz
- XFX 8800gt 512meg
- Pioneer 18x dvd burner (sata)
- 500gig Seagate
- 600w OCZ Stealthxstream PSU
ok i hooked all these up prior to getting the PSU... Got the PSU and hooked it up I hooked the 24pin power and om the top left corner of the mobo there is 2 4 pin hook ups for eatx power i believe. I took the plastic cover off the one side and hooked up power to both of those plugs... from my power supply it has 2 4pin plugs labeled cpu1 and cpu2 so i hooked these up (cpu 1 to the one that was not covered and cpu 2 to the one that was covered.
Anyway my problem is after everything was hooked up i booted and I did not get anything on my monitor... no bios beeps ( i belive because there is no speaker built in and i did not hook one up) Naturally i freaked, I did not know what was going on. I thought it was the vid card but everything in that turns on (loud Fan), then i thought it was the cpu. I pulled that off and inspected it ( did not inspect the pins, thats my next inspection) reseated evrything and i got the American megatrends screen: New cpu installed, intrusion detected. I restart and no boot again nothing on screen. so i pull the cpu fan and clear cmos.
After restarting I get the American megatrends again and it detects everything hooked to the mobo. so i leave everything and it boots from the cd. I start installing Vista and when it needs to restart. It restarts and the same thing I get nothing on screen again.
So i clear cmos again and it lets me resume the installation. so when it restarts again... nothing on screen and i have to clear cmos again. Thats when it hits me... I did not try and set the bios to defaults ( i assume that happens when you clear cmos)
So im thinking it might be the ram ( I don't have any extra ddr2 to test this theory and i have no floppy for memtest)
So my question is .... Can anyone help me out?
thanks
- Q6600
- TRU heatsink
- Sythe 120mm fan
- 2 x 1gig Crucial Ballistix 1066mhz
- XFX 8800gt 512meg
- Pioneer 18x dvd burner (sata)
- 500gig Seagate
- 600w OCZ Stealthxstream PSU
ok i hooked all these up prior to getting the PSU... Got the PSU and hooked it up I hooked the 24pin power and om the top left corner of the mobo there is 2 4 pin hook ups for eatx power i believe. I took the plastic cover off the one side and hooked up power to both of those plugs... from my power supply it has 2 4pin plugs labeled cpu1 and cpu2 so i hooked these up (cpu 1 to the one that was not covered and cpu 2 to the one that was covered.
Anyway my problem is after everything was hooked up i booted and I did not get anything on my monitor... no bios beeps ( i belive because there is no speaker built in and i did not hook one up) Naturally i freaked, I did not know what was going on. I thought it was the vid card but everything in that turns on (loud Fan), then i thought it was the cpu. I pulled that off and inspected it ( did not inspect the pins, thats my next inspection) reseated evrything and i got the American megatrends screen: New cpu installed, intrusion detected. I restart and no boot again nothing on screen. so i pull the cpu fan and clear cmos.
After restarting I get the American megatrends again and it detects everything hooked to the mobo. so i leave everything and it boots from the cd. I start installing Vista and when it needs to restart. It restarts and the same thing I get nothing on screen again.
So i clear cmos again and it lets me resume the installation. so when it restarts again... nothing on screen and i have to clear cmos again. Thats when it hits me... I did not try and set the bios to defaults ( i assume that happens when you clear cmos)
So im thinking it might be the ram ( I don't have any extra ddr2 to test this theory and i have no floppy for memtest)
So my question is .... Can anyone help me out?
thanks