First time build - won't post - help please!

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coltuk

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Hi everyone. I'm putting together my first build and annoyingly I'm having a problem straight away. I have worked my way through the troubleshooting sticky but haven't fixed it.

I started with breadboarding my mobo, cpu + aftermarket fan, graphics card, ram and psu on the mobo's cardboard box. Everything plugged in correctly, thermal paste applied correctly, power connectors for mobo, cpu and gpu plugged in, cpu fan power connector plugged into mobo.

I powered it up, the cpu and gpu fans started spinning, then immediately shut off. A second or two later this happened again, and it keeps repeating. No beeps from the speaker.

I tried without the graphics card, same thing happens. Then without the ram, same. I tried the ram in all four of the slots on the mobo, no difference. I thought it could be the psu, so I tried the paperclip test on corsair's website but it passed so I'm guessing this is ok.

Here are my components:

Gigabyte Z87-D3HP mobo
Intel Core i7-4790K
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Corsair RM 650W psu
Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX650 gpu
Corsair CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz 1x8gb (going to add another one of these soon)

Could anyone offer any suggestions as to what could be causing this? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.



 
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tiny voices
I doubt it is the PSU. that specific RM unit is very good and this build will barely use 220w at FULL load anyway with that low end GPU in it.

This is probably due to your motherboard not being compatible with your CPU. It requires a BIOS update to recognize that CPU and without a compatible CPU there is no way to do the update. You will need to either, find a CPU you can use/ borrow and flash the BIOS, or buy a new (z97) motherboard.
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I doubt it is the PSU. that specific RM unit is very good and this build will barely use 220w at FULL load anyway with that low end GPU in it.

This is probably due to your motherboard not being compatible with your CPU. It requires a BIOS update to recognize that CPU and without a compatible CPU there is no way to do the update. You will need to either, find a CPU you can use/ borrow and flash the BIOS, or buy a new (z97) motherboard.
 
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coltuk

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Damn. I had a feeling it would be the motherboard. Thanks for that though, I'm going to see if I can return it. Thanks for the link dunlop but I had already worked through that.
 
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