I've just tried to build my first-ever computer, and as soon as I turned it on and pressed the power button, I heard a short click from inside, and there's a red light on the power-button on the motherboard. There is nothing present on the numbered LCD display on the motherboard..I've tried to see if anything was unplugged, and there was one thing I managed to change.
The CPU power socket on the motherboard had an 8-pin connector, but all I could find were 2 4x4 connectors, and I was reading somewhere that said if you cannot plug in both, the 1 4x4 should do just fine if you place it to the closest port by the CPU. I wasn't able to plug it in before so I left it as is. After this red light happened, I tried it again and actually managed to plug them both in.
I've re-seated the CPU (and applied thermal compound again), the heatsink, ram, and GPU. Everything seems to be plugged in correctly into the motherboard as well as the power-supply, and I don't see any "metal-to-metal" touching myself, as I was told that could potentially be a problem.
For your reference, here is an imgur link with an album of pictures I took so you can see for yourself. http://imgur.com/a/SbkI9
I'm not quite sure what to do.. I've googled similar problems and I see it could be the CPU that has bent pins or something, but I took the CPU out and there are no pins on it. There seem to be some below it, where it sits on, but I tried looking as close as possible and I couldn't see any that were bent.
The CPU power socket on the motherboard had an 8-pin connector, but all I could find were 2 4x4 connectors, and I was reading somewhere that said if you cannot plug in both, the 1 4x4 should do just fine if you place it to the closest port by the CPU. I wasn't able to plug it in before so I left it as is. After this red light happened, I tried it again and actually managed to plug them both in.
I've re-seated the CPU (and applied thermal compound again), the heatsink, ram, and GPU. Everything seems to be plugged in correctly into the motherboard as well as the power-supply, and I don't see any "metal-to-metal" touching myself, as I was told that could potentially be a problem.
For your reference, here is an imgur link with an album of pictures I took so you can see for yourself. http://imgur.com/a/SbkI9
I'm not quite sure what to do.. I've googled similar problems and I see it could be the CPU that has bent pins or something, but I took the CPU out and there are no pins on it. There seem to be some below it, where it sits on, but I tried looking as close as possible and I couldn't see any that were bent.
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