My first attempt at building a PC is a fail.
Motherboard's an Asus P8-Z77-V. CPU a 3770K.
First time I turned the PSU- a BeQuiet 630W- on, I hadn't plugged in the EATX 12V cable, so understandably it wasn't working and the DRAM red light was blinking. However, now that it's plugged in, the DRAM red light is constantly turned on and nothing shows on my monitor. My monitor when not connected to any system whatsoever claims to be looking for a PC connection, but when I connect it to the motherboard it just goes black. and on standby This happens both on a VGA monitor and on a Display Port monitor. It happens both when I connect the monitor to the motherboard graphic outputs and when I connect it to the GTX660 outputs, but I generally try it out on the motherboard's outputs to reduce from the chance that the graphics card could be to blame.
I've read up a number of possibilities that lead me to think it may be that my Corsair Low Profile Vengeance may be incompatible with the motherboard. The model number is CML16GX3M4A1600C9.(4x4gb) and it is not in the QVL that Asus has for this motherboard. The depressing fact that some motherboards just aren't compatible with some of the most popular brands out there in RAM was something I was not counting on when I ordered this setup, so I resist to the chance it could be this.
I've tried to use one stick at a time, both starting from closest to the CPU and furthest away, and still no POST to the monitor (if POST is the correct word). But no luck. So if it were faulty RAM this would solve the issue because it would most probably be only 1 or 2 of the sticks not all of them, which inclines me to think it could be the incompatibility instead.
Other possibilities include: first half a dozen times I turned this on and off test, I did so with only four standoffs, the four that came as default with the Zalman Z11 Plus case I bought. Only later on did I add another 4 standoffs and make it pretty damn firm. Could I have shorted the mobo due to not enough standoffs first time around?
I have the green light show up when I turn on the PSU. I'm using the PSU best as I know how. It's not quite modular and it comes with two big collections of cables. One going to the EATX 12V connector I mentiioned above and the other to the EATX PWR with 24 pins. The cable of the 24 pin PWR connector has one pin that has no metal inside, all plastic which is suspicious.
The Zalman Z11 case has a weird issue in that it has two fans with 3 pin connectors so I'll need a bridge to adapt them, but I extremely highly doubt that that is the issue.
I've been adding a Phanteks 14PE as a heatsink and a cooler, and I've used thermal paste on the CPU. Maybe I've spread it wrong, too much?
I did have to rought it about quite a bit as I committed a bunch of errors setting it up, so maybe I broke something in the mobo? The Wifi card came with a screw so tight even a lighter couldn't loosen it up so I've left it without a screw and maybe it's loose and shorting something but I highly doubt it's that too.
Initially I had an SSD drive connected but realising that I was disconnecting the PSU abruptly and the short life span of SSDs that get disconnected prematurely, I disconnected it. The DVD player is still on with the Asus CD, though, as I believe that's what's supposed to appear when the monitor boots up in order to, I suppose, configure the BIOS.
So what do you think this could be?
Motherboard's an Asus P8-Z77-V. CPU a 3770K.
First time I turned the PSU- a BeQuiet 630W- on, I hadn't plugged in the EATX 12V cable, so understandably it wasn't working and the DRAM red light was blinking. However, now that it's plugged in, the DRAM red light is constantly turned on and nothing shows on my monitor. My monitor when not connected to any system whatsoever claims to be looking for a PC connection, but when I connect it to the motherboard it just goes black. and on standby This happens both on a VGA monitor and on a Display Port monitor. It happens both when I connect the monitor to the motherboard graphic outputs and when I connect it to the GTX660 outputs, but I generally try it out on the motherboard's outputs to reduce from the chance that the graphics card could be to blame.
I've read up a number of possibilities that lead me to think it may be that my Corsair Low Profile Vengeance may be incompatible with the motherboard. The model number is CML16GX3M4A1600C9.(4x4gb) and it is not in the QVL that Asus has for this motherboard. The depressing fact that some motherboards just aren't compatible with some of the most popular brands out there in RAM was something I was not counting on when I ordered this setup, so I resist to the chance it could be this.
I've tried to use one stick at a time, both starting from closest to the CPU and furthest away, and still no POST to the monitor (if POST is the correct word). But no luck. So if it were faulty RAM this would solve the issue because it would most probably be only 1 or 2 of the sticks not all of them, which inclines me to think it could be the incompatibility instead.
Other possibilities include: first half a dozen times I turned this on and off test, I did so with only four standoffs, the four that came as default with the Zalman Z11 Plus case I bought. Only later on did I add another 4 standoffs and make it pretty damn firm. Could I have shorted the mobo due to not enough standoffs first time around?
I have the green light show up when I turn on the PSU. I'm using the PSU best as I know how. It's not quite modular and it comes with two big collections of cables. One going to the EATX 12V connector I mentiioned above and the other to the EATX PWR with 24 pins. The cable of the 24 pin PWR connector has one pin that has no metal inside, all plastic which is suspicious.
The Zalman Z11 case has a weird issue in that it has two fans with 3 pin connectors so I'll need a bridge to adapt them, but I extremely highly doubt that that is the issue.
I've been adding a Phanteks 14PE as a heatsink and a cooler, and I've used thermal paste on the CPU. Maybe I've spread it wrong, too much?
I did have to rought it about quite a bit as I committed a bunch of errors setting it up, so maybe I broke something in the mobo? The Wifi card came with a screw so tight even a lighter couldn't loosen it up so I've left it without a screw and maybe it's loose and shorting something but I highly doubt it's that too.
Initially I had an SSD drive connected but realising that I was disconnecting the PSU abruptly and the short life span of SSDs that get disconnected prematurely, I disconnected it. The DVD player is still on with the Asus CD, though, as I believe that's what's supposed to appear when the monitor boots up in order to, I suppose, configure the BIOS.
So what do you think this could be?
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