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I'm in the first hour of building my first-ever homebuilt PC.
Purchased a Soyo bare-bones pre-assembled kit w/ a case, power supply,
case fan, and motherboard. Also brought home RAM, a new processor and
a CPU Cooler.
I've hooked up all of the above components and figured I'd turn the
power on to see if anything happens before I rip the drives out of my
existing Dell. None of the four fans start (power supply, cpu cooler
fan, case fan, and a small fan on the motherboard itself) however, a
green LED on the motherboard lights up and stays lit until I turn the
power supply off, at which point it emits a sorry sounding beep.
Is it too early to tell if I have something defective, or do I need to
hook up my disk drives and video card before the fans will begin to
show life?
Another question, the cpu cooler had heat sink compound pre-applied to
it. Now that I've removed the cooler, do I need to apply additional
heat sink compound when I re-attach the heat sink?
Appreciate the help,
Matt
I'm in the first hour of building my first-ever homebuilt PC.
Purchased a Soyo bare-bones pre-assembled kit w/ a case, power supply,
case fan, and motherboard. Also brought home RAM, a new processor and
a CPU Cooler.
I've hooked up all of the above components and figured I'd turn the
power on to see if anything happens before I rip the drives out of my
existing Dell. None of the four fans start (power supply, cpu cooler
fan, case fan, and a small fan on the motherboard itself) however, a
green LED on the motherboard lights up and stays lit until I turn the
power supply off, at which point it emits a sorry sounding beep.
Is it too early to tell if I have something defective, or do I need to
hook up my disk drives and video card before the fans will begin to
show life?
Another question, the cpu cooler had heat sink compound pre-applied to
it. Now that I've removed the cooler, do I need to apply additional
heat sink compound when I re-attach the heat sink?
Appreciate the help,
Matt