To start, i try to avoid posting threads, as i'm aware it can be the cancer of some forums, however i'm almost a month in on this small project and iv'e currently had no success.I hoped someone with some experience with this board or X58 builds might be able to give me some advice and point me in the right direction
I got hold of an asus P6T-SE motherboard from a friend and it hasn't been in a system for a long while. the motherboard was sat in an old Coolermaster HAF 932 case and from what he said it's disassembled for a few years. I took the motherboard out, gave it a quick visual check and everything seemed fine with the board (nothing looks fried or broken), so it got me thinking on doing a X58 build. Heres where the problems started;
I bought an i7 930 from ebay, put everything together with some spare ram i had lying around, and did a test boot. At first i'm getting nothing. No beeps, only the power LED on the motherboard. i began trying to troubleshoot it and removed the ram i had installed. i then got a few beeps (1 long and 2 short beeps) i've looked this up on other forums and the only thing i can find is a video card error. i'm confused as to why i'm getting this code, but instead i began trying to troubleshoot more. I replaced the PSU for a new one, and also got hold of some low density DDR3 (Corsair XMS3 Tri channel 6x2gb). i tried each module of RAM individually to ensure that they're not faulty/faulty RAM slots. i tried different GPU's (GTX 670 and GTX 960) and finally i came to the conclusion that it could only be the motherboard or the CPU. I decided replace the CPU as my final attempt to get this board working. I ordered a Xeon x5660, installed it and i thought i cracked it. finally the board comes to life, fans spin, but to spoil it all, i get no video output. in this time i also tried some of the basic stuff such as removing CMOS battery, bread boarding the system so theres no possibility of shortages within a case, etc.
a few things to add to anyone that might have any ideas is that the board acts strange when it comes to powering it on. it i press the power switch, the fans will spin for about half a second then shut off. however if i hold the switch, the fans spool up and runs continuously. i'm now at a point where i'm not sure what else it could be. i'm 99% sure it's not a compatibility issues, and i have no idea where to start when it comes to BIOS compatibility. if anyone has any ideas, even a small one, let me know. it'd be a shame to see this board go to waste since there's so few.
I got hold of an asus P6T-SE motherboard from a friend and it hasn't been in a system for a long while. the motherboard was sat in an old Coolermaster HAF 932 case and from what he said it's disassembled for a few years. I took the motherboard out, gave it a quick visual check and everything seemed fine with the board (nothing looks fried or broken), so it got me thinking on doing a X58 build. Heres where the problems started;
I bought an i7 930 from ebay, put everything together with some spare ram i had lying around, and did a test boot. At first i'm getting nothing. No beeps, only the power LED on the motherboard. i began trying to troubleshoot it and removed the ram i had installed. i then got a few beeps (1 long and 2 short beeps) i've looked this up on other forums and the only thing i can find is a video card error. i'm confused as to why i'm getting this code, but instead i began trying to troubleshoot more. I replaced the PSU for a new one, and also got hold of some low density DDR3 (Corsair XMS3 Tri channel 6x2gb). i tried each module of RAM individually to ensure that they're not faulty/faulty RAM slots. i tried different GPU's (GTX 670 and GTX 960) and finally i came to the conclusion that it could only be the motherboard or the CPU. I decided replace the CPU as my final attempt to get this board working. I ordered a Xeon x5660, installed it and i thought i cracked it. finally the board comes to life, fans spin, but to spoil it all, i get no video output. in this time i also tried some of the basic stuff such as removing CMOS battery, bread boarding the system so theres no possibility of shortages within a case, etc.
a few things to add to anyone that might have any ideas is that the board acts strange when it comes to powering it on. it i press the power switch, the fans will spin for about half a second then shut off. however if i hold the switch, the fans spool up and runs continuously. i'm now at a point where i'm not sure what else it could be. i'm 99% sure it's not a compatibility issues, and i have no idea where to start when it comes to BIOS compatibility. if anyone has any ideas, even a small one, let me know. it'd be a shame to see this board go to waste since there's so few.
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