Hey everybody,
I figured I should just explain everything I have done and all of the problems I have encountered and maybe somebody will see where I have gone wrong or have a possible solution.
So, I got my entire build up, but originally the PC wasn't posting. Everything was turning on, fans, graphics card, and all. But it would go into a boot loop. Turn on, 20 seconds later, turn off, repeat in 5 seconds.
Naturally, I came on here for possible solutions, checked everything. It turned out the cable I was using to get the 8 pin ATX port on the motherboard wasn't working, or was flipped (I just used the back up cable, so I'm not sure which one). After that, the PC would run forever, but it would still not post.
I originally thought this was because I wasn't hitting the delete key, which my motherboard manual said to do when posting (at the time, I thought posting was just turning on). Since I have a blue tooth keyboard, I thought it wasn't getting to the bios because I wasn't able to hit the delete key. I had a friend come over to use a wired keyboard, and still nothing was happening after pressing delete.
So then something weird happened. We for some reason thought to unplug the cable connecting the power supply to the graphics card, and after doing that, the screen popped up and we were able to get the the bios.
We got windows 10 installed, and after that was working, I figured I would restart the computer and plug in the graphics card cable again. Well, sure enough, it wouldn't get the screen to turn on again (i guess that's called "posting"). I turned the computer over, unplugged the graphics card from the mother board, re attached it, rewired it and all, and still it wouldn't post.
So I was like "alright, maybe I need to unplug graphics card, get to the bios, and tell it to use the graphics card from there.." But when I did that, the PC wouldn't post anymore. Not even without the graphics card cable plugged in, like it just had like 30 minutes before hand.
So now I feel like Im back to square 1 again, and I have no idea what is wrong now. I've looked to make sure everything is plugged in. Now all i get when I turn on the PC is a boot loop that lasts about 20 seconds, just like when I just started.
If anybody out there has any ideas, please share. I am desperate to get this working! This is my first time building a computer so I am very anxious.
Specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte LGA 1151 Z170
Processor: intel i-5 6500
Graphics card: MSI Geforce GTX 1060
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GS
Thank you in advance, and sorry for the incredibly long message.
I figured I should just explain everything I have done and all of the problems I have encountered and maybe somebody will see where I have gone wrong or have a possible solution.
So, I got my entire build up, but originally the PC wasn't posting. Everything was turning on, fans, graphics card, and all. But it would go into a boot loop. Turn on, 20 seconds later, turn off, repeat in 5 seconds.
Naturally, I came on here for possible solutions, checked everything. It turned out the cable I was using to get the 8 pin ATX port on the motherboard wasn't working, or was flipped (I just used the back up cable, so I'm not sure which one). After that, the PC would run forever, but it would still not post.
I originally thought this was because I wasn't hitting the delete key, which my motherboard manual said to do when posting (at the time, I thought posting was just turning on). Since I have a blue tooth keyboard, I thought it wasn't getting to the bios because I wasn't able to hit the delete key. I had a friend come over to use a wired keyboard, and still nothing was happening after pressing delete.
So then something weird happened. We for some reason thought to unplug the cable connecting the power supply to the graphics card, and after doing that, the screen popped up and we were able to get the the bios.
We got windows 10 installed, and after that was working, I figured I would restart the computer and plug in the graphics card cable again. Well, sure enough, it wouldn't get the screen to turn on again (i guess that's called "posting"). I turned the computer over, unplugged the graphics card from the mother board, re attached it, rewired it and all, and still it wouldn't post.
So I was like "alright, maybe I need to unplug graphics card, get to the bios, and tell it to use the graphics card from there.." But when I did that, the PC wouldn't post anymore. Not even without the graphics card cable plugged in, like it just had like 30 minutes before hand.
So now I feel like Im back to square 1 again, and I have no idea what is wrong now. I've looked to make sure everything is plugged in. Now all i get when I turn on the PC is a boot loop that lasts about 20 seconds, just like when I just started.
If anybody out there has any ideas, please share. I am desperate to get this working! This is my first time building a computer so I am very anxious.
Specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte LGA 1151 Z170
Processor: intel i-5 6500
Graphics card: MSI Geforce GTX 1060
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GS
Thank you in advance, and sorry for the incredibly long message.
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