- Apr 27, 2013
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So I bought some new computer parts recently, to take my computer out of the stone age, but then a whole bunch of problems started happening ... I'll write it all chronologically to hopefully make it as easy as possible to find the root of the problem.
My old computer, I've had for some years now it's been working fine. The new computer parts, an ASROCK z77 extreme 4-m motherboard, i-5 3570k 3.4ghz quad-core processor, corsair CX500 PSU and two 4GB RAM sticks (Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3DUS) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz) arrived quite quickly, so I started getting to work putting it all together. The first problem I came across was the fact that the heads of one of the screws had worn away which made it pretty tough to get out - I ended up just unscrewing all of the other things holding the motherboard down to the case and then just pulled out the board with the screw an the standoff it was screwed in to coming out with the motherboard. When I looked back at the case there were a few scrathes not too far from that screw and where it had been uprooted, the case had sort of warped in to a little mound.
Okay, so that's out. I stick the new processor in to the z77 extreme 4-m motherboard, I put my two RAM sticks in, I plug my GTX460 card from my old board in to the PCI-E slot in the new board, and I plug the PSU in to the 24-pin connector and the 8-pin connector and connect the power switch from the computer case on to the board. I turn it on the green light on the front of the case turns on and the fans of my CPU and PSU (possibly my GPU, but I didn't check) start up. Within a split second, the light goes away and the momentum the fans had started to build in that split second finishes so they stop spinning. I just have absolutely no idea what to do and I've been working at it for practically every waking moment since I started having the problems but with no luck.
So I thought okay, I'll just put my old computer back together. So that's what I do, the fans start, the hard drive starts, the disk drive starts, all of the normal build up, but at the end of it all there's no beep and I'm getting no display either, whereas before taking it apart my old computer was working fine.
And at this moment in time, I'm sitting here with a bunch of computer parts and have no idea what's wrong, whether any of the new pieces are got are dysfunctional or if I did something wrong myself.
My old computer, I've had for some years now it's been working fine. The new computer parts, an ASROCK z77 extreme 4-m motherboard, i-5 3570k 3.4ghz quad-core processor, corsair CX500 PSU and two 4GB RAM sticks (Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3DUS) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz) arrived quite quickly, so I started getting to work putting it all together. The first problem I came across was the fact that the heads of one of the screws had worn away which made it pretty tough to get out - I ended up just unscrewing all of the other things holding the motherboard down to the case and then just pulled out the board with the screw an the standoff it was screwed in to coming out with the motherboard. When I looked back at the case there were a few scrathes not too far from that screw and where it had been uprooted, the case had sort of warped in to a little mound.
Okay, so that's out. I stick the new processor in to the z77 extreme 4-m motherboard, I put my two RAM sticks in, I plug my GTX460 card from my old board in to the PCI-E slot in the new board, and I plug the PSU in to the 24-pin connector and the 8-pin connector and connect the power switch from the computer case on to the board. I turn it on the green light on the front of the case turns on and the fans of my CPU and PSU (possibly my GPU, but I didn't check) start up. Within a split second, the light goes away and the momentum the fans had started to build in that split second finishes so they stop spinning. I just have absolutely no idea what to do and I've been working at it for practically every waking moment since I started having the problems but with no luck.
So I thought okay, I'll just put my old computer back together. So that's what I do, the fans start, the hard drive starts, the disk drive starts, all of the normal build up, but at the end of it all there's no beep and I'm getting no display either, whereas before taking it apart my old computer was working fine.
And at this moment in time, I'm sitting here with a bunch of computer parts and have no idea what's wrong, whether any of the new pieces are got are dysfunctional or if I did something wrong myself.
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