Hello,
I decided to build a new computer for home and bought myself a Z97 Anniversary motherboard, 2x4GB of DDR3 RAM and ordered a G3258 Pentium. While waiting for the Pentium, I decided to disassemble the old PC and put the new motherboard there. I made sure everything is nice and tight and connected (put screws, tightened them, connected 20+4 pin and the 4-pin cable on the 8-pin CPU cable slot, made sure it's the right way and all) and decided to try powering it up without a CPU to see if it works. However, nothing happened- at first, I decided it was the power button- I disconnected it and tried the screwdriver trick- nothing. Then, I thought it might be from the PSU, which is pretty old, but yet I never had problems with it- I bought a new one, nothing changed again. I thought I might've bought a bad PSU, so I tried both PSUs on the old Motherboard- it powered up! However, none of the two made the new motherboard work- I tried it with two RAM chips, then without ones- no difference, nothing will spin or light up even a bit! I read that powering up a motherboard without a CPU would make the PSU fan spin, if not something else, but in my case absolutely nothing happened, no matter what I tried... I even tried removing the motherboard from the case and trying powering it up while outside the box, but again, nothing changed... Could it be a faulty motherboard? What can/should I do? Should I wait for the CPU and THEN try the motherboard? Thanks in advance!
I decided to build a new computer for home and bought myself a Z97 Anniversary motherboard, 2x4GB of DDR3 RAM and ordered a G3258 Pentium. While waiting for the Pentium, I decided to disassemble the old PC and put the new motherboard there. I made sure everything is nice and tight and connected (put screws, tightened them, connected 20+4 pin and the 4-pin cable on the 8-pin CPU cable slot, made sure it's the right way and all) and decided to try powering it up without a CPU to see if it works. However, nothing happened- at first, I decided it was the power button- I disconnected it and tried the screwdriver trick- nothing. Then, I thought it might be from the PSU, which is pretty old, but yet I never had problems with it- I bought a new one, nothing changed again. I thought I might've bought a bad PSU, so I tried both PSUs on the old Motherboard- it powered up! However, none of the two made the new motherboard work- I tried it with two RAM chips, then without ones- no difference, nothing will spin or light up even a bit! I read that powering up a motherboard without a CPU would make the PSU fan spin, if not something else, but in my case absolutely nothing happened, no matter what I tried... I even tried removing the motherboard from the case and trying powering it up while outside the box, but again, nothing changed... Could it be a faulty motherboard? What can/should I do? Should I wait for the CPU and THEN try the motherboard? Thanks in advance!
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