I just got finished switching my old build to a new case with a new CPU and added a second HDD. My specs are as follows:
ASRock Motherboard
Nvidia 660GX Graphics Card
AMD FX Processor
First hard drive is a SeaGate Barracuda 2 TB HDD
Second hard drive (the newly added one) is a SeaGate 3 TB HDD
EVGA 80W Power Supply unit
Asus Optical Drive
Two 8Gb Sniper GX sticks of RAM
A couple of things to keep in mind:
The build worked fine a few days ago when I had it in my old case. It is not until I unplugged everything and switched everything over to the new case that it is now not booting, no beep, no POST.
I had the hard drive SATA plug in SATA port 1 of my motherboard, and the damn thing was in there so tightly that it actually pulled out the mother ******* port jack on the mobo. The pins were badly bent and touching each other so to alleviate any short circuits from those I pulled out all the pins and plugged the SATA plug into a different SATA port on my mobo. That first SATA port is officially out of the picture for use and I am HOPING that that didn't screw the entire board. I've read other threads saying people can just use another port, but I also read that that can fry the whole thing.
I could not get the second hard drive to work on my old case build. For reference, my PSU has three SATA ports, two PATA ports (no idea what that is for), one MB port, two CPU ports, and 4 VGA ports. For process of elimination, I tried switching SATA cables, tried unplugging the optical drive and trying with just two hard drives, then I unplugged the second hard drive and tried just the original one. Nothing.
I am going to try unplugging everything and redoing all the plugs. I grounded myself liberally throughout the entire process of building this so if it is a short I will be very surprised. I know for a fact the CPU is in correctly (it is one of the CPU's that has the two plastic blocks far apart from each other and then the two plastic blocks close to each other, so there is no other way it can fit snugly in unless you match those up exactly with the holes.)
I made sure the motherboard is on the stand offs correctly, like above I would be very surprised if that was the problem. I tried one RAM stick and one taken out, I made sure they were in tightly, I made sure the GPU was in tightly, nothing.
The fans are all running on everything-GPU, CPU cooler, case fans, the only one I don't know about is the PSU because that is upside down in the case, but even then, it is obviously supplying power to everything else, so that really could not be the issue.
Again, to reiterate, no beep, no display on monitor (it says no signal, I tried both monitor ports on the GPU and same result) and no POST or boot. I am really at a loss here for what could be the issue. Like I said, I'll unplug/replug everything and see if that fixes the issue. I hope I don't have to buy a new MB.
ASRock Motherboard
Nvidia 660GX Graphics Card
AMD FX Processor
First hard drive is a SeaGate Barracuda 2 TB HDD
Second hard drive (the newly added one) is a SeaGate 3 TB HDD
EVGA 80W Power Supply unit
Asus Optical Drive
Two 8Gb Sniper GX sticks of RAM
A couple of things to keep in mind:
The build worked fine a few days ago when I had it in my old case. It is not until I unplugged everything and switched everything over to the new case that it is now not booting, no beep, no POST.
I had the hard drive SATA plug in SATA port 1 of my motherboard, and the damn thing was in there so tightly that it actually pulled out the mother ******* port jack on the mobo. The pins were badly bent and touching each other so to alleviate any short circuits from those I pulled out all the pins and plugged the SATA plug into a different SATA port on my mobo. That first SATA port is officially out of the picture for use and I am HOPING that that didn't screw the entire board. I've read other threads saying people can just use another port, but I also read that that can fry the whole thing.
I could not get the second hard drive to work on my old case build. For reference, my PSU has three SATA ports, two PATA ports (no idea what that is for), one MB port, two CPU ports, and 4 VGA ports. For process of elimination, I tried switching SATA cables, tried unplugging the optical drive and trying with just two hard drives, then I unplugged the second hard drive and tried just the original one. Nothing.
I am going to try unplugging everything and redoing all the plugs. I grounded myself liberally throughout the entire process of building this so if it is a short I will be very surprised. I know for a fact the CPU is in correctly (it is one of the CPU's that has the two plastic blocks far apart from each other and then the two plastic blocks close to each other, so there is no other way it can fit snugly in unless you match those up exactly with the holes.)
I made sure the motherboard is on the stand offs correctly, like above I would be very surprised if that was the problem. I tried one RAM stick and one taken out, I made sure they were in tightly, I made sure the GPU was in tightly, nothing.
The fans are all running on everything-GPU, CPU cooler, case fans, the only one I don't know about is the PSU because that is upside down in the case, but even then, it is obviously supplying power to everything else, so that really could not be the issue.
Again, to reiterate, no beep, no display on monitor (it says no signal, I tried both monitor ports on the GPU and same result) and no POST or boot. I am really at a loss here for what could be the issue. Like I said, I'll unplug/replug everything and see if that fixes the issue. I hope I don't have to buy a new MB.
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