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February 10, 2014 1:52:34 AM

i recently built a system, however whenever i turn the power button on, no post bios is occuring, just a black screen. I have gone through all of the troubleshooting guides and have narrowed it down to either the motherboard or the psu. I am RMAing the motherboard as advised by the company i bought it from. The reason i believe it is mainly the motherboard is because of the fans, heatsync fan, gpu fans working... therefore im only left with the psu.

specs are:
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K28X)
- AMD A8-6600K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD660KWOHLBOX)
- Powercolor Radeon R9 270X "PowerBank" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
- Kingston 60GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gbs 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A60G)
- Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gbs 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD
- BitFenix Spectre LED BLUE 120mm Fan (x2)
- http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=... (the exact psu in the system)

im really out of ideas and RMAing the motherboard for them to send it back with a "no faulty" and a charge would not be great.

Any answers would be most welcome, thanks

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February 10, 2014 2:00:12 AM

The problem probably comes from your PSU, which is a very bad unit. All the reviews I could find about it were bad, some saying that it even had problems pulling only about 270W. Changing it might fix your issue.
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February 10, 2014 2:11:56 AM

Seladon said:
The problem probably comes from your PSU, which is a very bad unit. All the reviews I could find about it were bad, some saying that it even had problems pulling only about 270W. Changing it might fix your issue.


Thanks for real quick reply, i notcied it is 470w then 570 at peak... bit sketchy, is there any way you could link me to reviews as i couldnt find any! :S
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February 10, 2014 3:04:24 AM

tcoleman said:
Seladon said:
The problem probably comes from your PSU, which is a very bad unit. All the reviews I could find about it were bad, some saying that it even had problems pulling only about 270W. Changing it might fix your issue.


Thanks for real quick reply, i notcied it is 470w then 570 at peak... bit sketchy, is there any way you could link me to reviews as i couldnt find any! :S


methinks there is some confusion. i believe the refered to review is for the superb 550P (which is model #GE-P450P-C2) whereas the ink you provided is for model # GE-E570A-C3 which i don't see any for on this database:
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page1906.ht...

so i am curious also. :) 
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February 10, 2014 3:22:47 AM

qbsinfo said:
tcoleman said:
Seladon said:
The problem probably comes from your PSU, which is a very bad unit. All the reviews I could find about it were bad, some saying that it even had problems pulling only about 270W. Changing it might fix your issue.


Thanks for real quick reply, i notcied it is 470w then 570 at peak... bit sketchy, is there any way you could link me to reviews as i couldnt find any! :S


methinks there is some confusion. i believe the refered to review is for the superb 550P (which is model #GE-P450P-C2) whereas the ink you provided is for model # GE-E570A-C3 which i don't see any for on this database:
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page1906.ht...

so i am curious also. :) 


yeah, the one you linked, that is not the correct one.. seems as if im no further to finding out whether it is the motherboard or psu ! :(  i dont think ive ever done a project where ive encountered so many problems
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February 10, 2014 3:33:25 AM

tcoleman said:

yeah, the one you linked, that is not the correct one.. seems as if im no further to finding out whether it is the motherboard or psu ! :(  i dont think ive ever done a project where ive encountered so many problems


well unless you have a spare PSU laying around or one you can borrow from a friend, the options are limited.

you could try "breadboarding" (taking it out of the case and setting it on non conductive material like a wood table)
install ( or just keep installed) just the cpu and one stick of ram in the slot farthest from the cpu. connect your monitor to the video out on the motherboard and connect the power supply. after you turn on the PSU you can use a paper clip or small screwdriver to touch the two PWR_ON pins for a second.

that ought to get you into the BIOS if the motherboard is good.
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February 10, 2014 3:41:17 AM

qbsinfo said:
tcoleman said:

yeah, the one you linked, that is not the correct one.. seems as if im no further to finding out whether it is the motherboard or psu ! :(  i dont think ive ever done a project where ive encountered so many problems


well unless you have a spare PSU laying around or one you can borrow from a friend, the options are limited.

you could try "breadboarding" (taking it out of the case and setting it on non conductive material like a wood table)
install ( or just keep installed) just the cpu and one stick of ram in the slot farthest from the cpu. connect your monitor to the video out on the motherboard and connect the power supply. after you turn on the PSU you can use a paper clip or small screwdriver to touch the two PWR_ON pins for a second.

that ought to get you into the BIOS if the motherboard is good.


yeah me and my mate have breadboarded, we did absolutley everything... apart from test another psu, so with this in mind it sounds like the motherboard?
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February 10, 2014 3:53:48 AM

unfortunately, yes. i would believe even a junk PSU ought to have gotten you a beep w/breadboarding.
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