MEMok light is red and no display

woodzy09

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hi
just built my first PC and i'm having some problems getting it started.
firstly let me list my PC specs:

- Silverstone case (unsure of model but it's the one with red LED's on the front)
- Asus P8Z77-v pro MB
- Intel Core i5 - 3570 LGA 1155
- EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SIg 2 FTW
- EVGA NEX 750B PSU
- Western Gate Caviar Black 1TB HDD
- Corsair Vengeance 8 GB (2 x 4GB) Memory 1600 9-9-9-24

when i press my on button it comes on then goes off. after 3-5 seconds it boots up again and stays on. the MEMok light stays on and i have no display. if i press and hold the MEMok button it switches off and then reboots. after that the MEMok light flashes.

Any thoughts on what this could be.

baring in mind i have taken out the memory and then put it back in. tried all the Dim banks and stripped the PC down and rebuilt it.

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

clayofthe757

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Did you try using one stick at a time? Check the manual for the slots the manufacturer recommends you use, and then just place one stick in the first of the recommended slots. Do it again with the other. If one stick boots and the other doesn't, then you know you have a bad stick.

Best of luck.
 

woodzy09

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Hi. I tried all of this. I took it to a computer shop and said everything was installed correctly. apart from the motherboard. I followed asus YouTube videos when putting my pc together but it never showed putting the motherboard support screws in first and then the board on those. So they said I could of shorted out the board. Could this be the case.
 

clayofthe757

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Absolutely! Grounding (otherwise known as the end-all fail safe) is terribly important to every computer. It could have been as simple as you touching a part of the board with a static charge. Most of the time it's difficult to mess up a build. But if you are not working in a static free environment, constantly discharge yourself on something metal, or grounding yourself in some other way, a simple discharge of static from you to a crucial component of the motherboard will destroy it. I'm sorry to say that you made need to replace it.

I wish you luck.
 
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