This is my first time building a PC, and I'm looking for help getting it up and running. I've been reading many threads on similar topics but thought I'd start my own thread as I have been having multiple issues.
I'll try to make this short: I started last night. Made the mistake of putting the whole case together will all components before booting. It didn't work - boot loop every time. Did the whole troubleshooting process for this with no luck. I had made the mistake of installing the motherboard without the risers - not sure if it was dead or if I killed it. Pulled the board out and booted it with it set up outside the case. Still no luck.
Exchanged the board today, and this time I booted up with the bare essentials before installing in the case. And it worked! Or at least I got a signal on the screen asking me to insert a bootable drive. Close enough. So I installed everything in the case again. Booted again but didn't get to the BIOS screen this time. No boot loop either - the fans just spin and lights turn on but no signal on the monitor. After a while the fans on the graphics card stop spinning, but that's it.
After this I tried various things again - reset CMOS, remove all but one RAM chip, swap RAM chips, etc. Finally I did manage to get a BIOS screen, with just one RAM chip installed. Thinking the problem had been resolved I put all of them back in and - back to square one again. Thing is, after that I haven't been able to recreate that success.
Now I'm stuck again, but I'm pretty sure I at least have a working motherboard this time. Any ideas where to go from here?
System is:
Gigabyte X99 UD4
Intel Core i7-5820K
Corsair H105
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (4x4)
GTX 980 Classified
Corsair HX850
Thanks in advance!
Chris
I'll try to make this short: I started last night. Made the mistake of putting the whole case together will all components before booting. It didn't work - boot loop every time. Did the whole troubleshooting process for this with no luck. I had made the mistake of installing the motherboard without the risers - not sure if it was dead or if I killed it. Pulled the board out and booted it with it set up outside the case. Still no luck.
Exchanged the board today, and this time I booted up with the bare essentials before installing in the case. And it worked! Or at least I got a signal on the screen asking me to insert a bootable drive. Close enough. So I installed everything in the case again. Booted again but didn't get to the BIOS screen this time. No boot loop either - the fans just spin and lights turn on but no signal on the monitor. After a while the fans on the graphics card stop spinning, but that's it.
After this I tried various things again - reset CMOS, remove all but one RAM chip, swap RAM chips, etc. Finally I did manage to get a BIOS screen, with just one RAM chip installed. Thinking the problem had been resolved I put all of them back in and - back to square one again. Thing is, after that I haven't been able to recreate that success.
Now I'm stuck again, but I'm pretty sure I at least have a working motherboard this time. Any ideas where to go from here?
System is:
Gigabyte X99 UD4
Intel Core i7-5820K
Corsair H105
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (4x4)
GTX 980 Classified
Corsair HX850
Thanks in advance!
Chris
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