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| Thread ID: 138441 | 2014-11-30 21:37:00 | New PC wont boot/post | GameJunkie (72) | Press F1 |
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| 1389220 | 2014-11-30 21:37:00 | So i built my new PC, and today i planned to reinstall windows, but it wont boot My system spec Case: Air 540 mobo: Asus Z97-A CPU: 4690K Ram: 2x4GB Adata XPG 2400MHz CPU cooler: Corsair H100 PSU: Antec HCP 1000w platinum PSU HDD: reusing a WD 1TB Black 2nd HDD(to install later) WD 2TB Green Thermaltake Commandar F5 fan controller TP-Link WN751ND PCI wifi card GPU: Asus GTX 970 Strix 4GB 2x Samsung 24 inch monitors, one connected via HDMI, the other via a DVI-VGA connector . Bios version: no idea I have reseated the 24 pin, the 8 pin CPU power, and the 8 pin GPU cables before posting here . The ram has been reseated in the reccommended slots according to the manual All 5 fans (3x 140mm case fans, and two 120mm fans on the H100) are attached to the Thermaltake fan controller . The H100 pump is connected to a molex PSU connector and the 3 pin pump connector is plugged into the CPU fan header . A white led is light up on the GPU, the yellow led below turns on when the switch is moved to the up position, otherwise off when in the down position . There is a yellow led illuminated above the pwr led/pwr sw button . The switch on the back of the PSU is set to I When i pressed the power button on the front of the case, the two fans on the GPU briefly spin up and the mobo makes a short beeping sound . Additionally the blue leds for each fan control switch briefly light up as well as the red power led just above it . The 1TB WD Black has an existing install of windows 7 home premium that was attached to a system running a FX-6300 and a Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P, and so I am trying to reinstall windows on the drive from a bootable windows 7 usb . Is this the problem due to the old installation on the drive?? do i have to format it before hand?? I think this is all the information i can think of Thanks in advance |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1389221 | 2014-11-30 21:56:00 | the mobo makes a short beeping sound Is that one single beep, or a series of beeps? First thing I'd do is try to find out the BIOS version. According to the ASUS site the board needs version # 1008 for that CPU. If that's OK, the Existing HDD wont be a problem / Stopping it, especially if its not even getting to the BIOS screen. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1389222 | 2014-11-30 22:45:00 | Thats alot of words, but still dont know what the symptoms are :-) Does it POST, ie does the Asus splash screen come up or is the only issue that win wont run ?? Or are the HD's not accessible ? Can you get into the bios, is anything on the displays, can you boot off a CD ? Sometimes, if you move a HD from 1 PC to another Win may or may not load (did the old PC have RAID ?) Paragon have a bootable CD to fix that though, it works realty well. Paragon Advanced Recover/adaptive restore . If you cant get anything on the display, then go back to basics. Rip out EVERYTHING you dont need,cables,water cooling, cards, USB, fans, extra RAM.... just have the bare minimum connected to the mb. One single short beep is normal. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1389223 | 2014-11-30 22:45:00 | Is that one single beep, or a series of beeps? First thing I'd do is try to find out the BIOS version. According to the ASUS site the board needs version # 1008 for that CPU. If that's OK, the Existing HDD wont be a problem / Stopping it, especially if its not even getting to the BIOS screen. It's just a single beep How can i find the bios version?? |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1389224 | 2014-11-30 22:59:00 | Is that one single beep, or a series of beeps? First thing I'd do is try to find out the BIOS version. According to the ASUS site the board needs version # 1008 for that CPU. If that's OK, the Existing HDD wont be a problem / Stopping it, especially if its not even getting to the BIOS screen. Well the motherboard revision number is 1.03, so it could be the bios out of of date |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1389225 | 2014-11-30 23:58:00 | with some further looking, i think my bios version is 0902, so if thats the case, then i need to update the bios somehow to version 2012 , which is the latest so how do i do that now??? |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1389226 | 2014-12-01 00:30:00 | Before messing with the BIOS - does it boot at all or it just stops and you have a blank screen? Or can you get into the BIOS? Or anywhere? Is the CPU cooler connected correctly? If the MB thinks the CPU is overheating it will shut off, check the BIOS I think first - if you can see it, if you can't well.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1389227 | 2014-12-01 00:58:00 | It might also do that if the motherboard is not detecting a CPU fan speed from the pump and some boards even do it if no case fan is detected. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1389228 | 2014-12-01 01:11:00 | Before messing with the BIOS - does it boot at all or it just stops and you have a blank screen? Or can you get into the BIOS? Or anywhere? Is the CPU cooler connected correctly? If the MB thinks the CPU is overheating it will shut off, check the BIOS I think first - if you can see it, if you can't well.... The H100 is on there correctly(i assume), its screwed down evenly on the four screws, and it does have thermal paste on it edit found this www.tomshardware.com |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1389229 | 2014-12-01 02:22:00 | I know this is unrelated....but why on earth is there no SSD in that otherwise excellently spec'd build? I would pull the graphics card and try another power supply for a start. |
wratterus (105) | ||
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