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Hello, I just upgraded my motherboard and cpu but my computer doesn't boot now. It keeps resetting after a short beep, which I assume is a memory issue from what I've already researched, although I can't see what is the problem.

Specs:
<new> Gigabyte H97M-D3H
<new> Intel i5-4690
Thermaltake Litepower 600W
2x Kingston HyperX Fury 4GB 1333MHz CL9
AMD Radeon R9 280
 
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Problem solved, boot section was messed up, fixed it with the following line on command prompt: bootsect /nt60 ALL /force /mbr

Thanks for the help anyway, cheers to everyone.
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Have you tried booting with only one memory stick at a time? Place the memory stick in each and every memory slot and see if you get signal on the screen in any of them. Then try with the second one.
Make sure your power connectors (CPU connector from the PSU to the motherboard, for instance) are all properly inserted.

"It keeps resetting after a short beep" -> do you get any image on the screen?
Try resetting the CMOS by disconnecting the power supply cable, removing the battery from the motherboard(located between your CPU socket and the first PCIExpress slot) and leaving your computer like that for 10 minutes, (right after you've remove the battery and the power cable from the power supply press your system's power button for 10 seconds to drain any electricity left int he capacitors) then try booting your computer without connecting the battery - see if the beeping changes. Reconnect the battery.
Check whether the GPU is properly inserted and with its PCIExpress connectors attached.
Try connecting your screen to the video output connectors on your motherboard, since you've got 3 of them VGA, DVI and HDMI - your BIOS might default to the integrated GPU instead of the dedicated one.

Try connecting power cables to nothing else but : motherboard connectors (that 8 PIN you have next to the golden heatsink near the CPU socket+ the 24PIN connector) and GPU connectors (PCIExpress). Don't connect anything else to your computer except keyboard and screen cable to the video ports. See if you get any signal.

Your CPU fan should be connected to a white connector labeled "CPU_FAN", not the black "SYS_FAN" one. Check that one out too.
 
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is it getting to the windows splash screen at all?

cause if it is, its probably a AHCI/RAID driver issue.

if it's not, then it's a AHCI/IDE setting in the bios that's wrong.

Are you on windows8? because windows8 gets tattooed to the motherboard making swapping out motherboards a bit challenging without your install disk at times.


if you're not getting anything it's just beeping then going through the startup routine again then you have something wrong.

either
1) ram isn't installed right
2) cpu isn't installed right
3) video card isn't installed right
4) something is grounding out/spacer in the wrong place
5) bios needs to be cleared with a CLR_CMOS

i would remove the gpu, make double and triple sure the ram is in the right slots and fully installed, CLR_CMOS, then give it a try with the monitor plugged into the onboard graphics.

let us know where you are at this point.
 
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I get signal everytime, it shows the BIOS screen, I can access the configuration and see the respective memory inserted. It even prompts me to boot from CD which I have already done so and re-installed Windows (which I thought was the issue at first because my old motherboard was outdated and would then require a fully new windows installation) but as soon as the installation was over and it rebooted it started beeping again.

Will try the CMOS reset now.

 
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No, it doesn't get to the windows splash screen, and I was using windows 7. Am trying the CMOS clearing right now.
 
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Ok, I cleared the CMOS, removed the gpu, replugged every wire and tried every ram slot, but to no avail, the rebooting still occurs. Although I looked for the beep codes for gigabyte boards and it seems 1 beep means System Normal, so maybe I was looking at this all wrong or maybe there really is a hardware problem?
 
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If your system reboots automatically, you've got a problem. If it doesn't reboot on its own, but only beeps once when you start your system up, that's alright.
I'd also watch CPU temperatures in BIOS and see how they evolve and at what point exactly they stop increasing. Again, if the system doesn't restart on its own or doesn't cause any annoyance, the boot-up beep is a sign the motherboard passing the Power On Self Test.
 
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I've just managed to boot it up for once, how I did it was weird though. I pressed a key right before it used to reboot and it brought me to l GRUB red screen, lota of options of booting windows, only one worked - "Windows 7 without loader". All the others rebooted again. I don't know if this fixes anything, should I move on and install the new mobo drivers?
 
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This case doesn't have a reset switch :p

 
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is your power plug connected correctly?

double check all the plugs running from your power supply to your motherboard, if everything is good we're going to have to breadboard your system. something just isn't right.

starting to look like a DOA motherboard.
 
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Everything is plugged in correctly, I have managed to load windows (with a bit of manual work) and it now seems more of a software problem.

Trying to install the mobo drivers, if the issue persists I will probably go back to my old rig until a solution is found, sadly.
 
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Problem solved, boot section was messed up, fixed it with the following line on command prompt: bootsect /nt60 ALL /force /mbr

Thanks for the help anyway, cheers to everyone.
 
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