Troubleshooting my first build ever...

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ColinPants

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... here are the details:

Asus z87-PLUS
Intel i5-4670
Samsung 840 series 256GB SSD
Seagate 2TB HDD
G Skill Sniper Memory (2x8)
Rosewill 750w 80+Gold PSU
GeForce GTX 760 4GB
Cooler Master T4 heatsink
LG DVD r/rw

Okay. So, I installed everything, and then realized I didn't know where to plug in the BIOS speaker. So I left it off, mounted everything in the case (a carbide 540 air), and turned it on.

Everything fired up, the video card and the fans all turned on, the component LED's on the motherboard all flashed once... except the boot device led. The whole system turns itself off after about five seconds, then reboots, and all the lights flash... except the boot device. Stays solid. Also, no video. It seems to be outputting SOMETHING, as the HDTV I have goes from the "no input" screen to just black.

From what I can glean out of the manual for the motherboard, when a component led stays lit, it means there's something wrong with it. So I guess I know it's either not booting from the right place, or maybe one of my drives is miswired/defective... but I don't have the damn BIOS speaker to tell me. So I'm not sure how to proceed.

Any advice, oh gurus of the Tom's Hardware forum??
 
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bigwoofer

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Congrats on your new build!!! Let's get that sucker fired up! Since we're just trying to get something out of your display, do you have your power connector connected to your graphics card? Also does this motherboard have onboard video? If so try connecting that to your monitor. The goal right now is to get it to stay on and access the bios, and to do that you have to display it on your monitor. Let us know!

Also double check that your CPU fan is connected to your motherboard CPUFan1 header, or whatever its named. If your mobo cant detect a cpu fan working, it can shut off to protect the hardware.
 
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Tradesman1

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New install the mobo will want to use the CPU's graphics, connect to the mobo graphics port and should get a signal, then can go into the BIOS and change primary graphics to PCI-E or PEG and can use your GPU card - also from the sounds of things would suggest reseating all your DRAM and probably the GPU also ;)
 
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1-42 of your motherboard manual (http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/Z87-PLUS/E7831_Z87-PLUS.pdf) shows the correct placement for the speaker. I think the SSD and HDD should be plugged into the yellow SATA ports and the optical into the brown SATA port. Just try the SSD in the SATA 6G_1 port without the HDD to see if that works. Install Windows or the OS of your choice then hook up the HDD.
 
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I've reseated both the GPU and the memory... more than once. lol. I've also tried starting it without the GPU in, and with no storage devises connected, and I've moved the memory to different slots and tried using just one stick. All to no avail.

Does anyone know where to plug in the damn BIOS speaker? I feel like I'm flying blind...
 
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look at the motherboard serial number the last four at the bios rev. the newest bios is Z87-PLUS BIOS 1707
Improve system stability. if your s is lower then that use the usb flashback port and update the bios.
on the motherboard make sure the eight pin power plug is connected.
 
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I've called it benching for longer than I can remember but a lot of people call it breadboarding, think it's an off shoot of putting the rig together on a bench (work bench or work table)
 
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She works like a charm, y'all. Well, kinda. Can't find how to get it to output to HDMI, and I can't seem to get the drivers for my Xbox controller to install right, but... other than that. It's awesome.
 
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Yeah, the video card is working as we speak on an HDTV... just with a DVI-D to HDMI cable. The HDMI port on the card itself seems to be turned off or maybe defective, I have no idea. Luckily, I found a workaround in the form of that cable.

Another question: in BIOS, the SATA setting tool recognizes both my SSD and my HDD, no problem... but windows seems to be seeing only the SSD, which I use to boot windows as it is retarded fast. Is it supposed to be like that?
 
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